Tehran—Iran and world powers were no closer to ending a long-standing dispute over the Iranian nuclear program February 27 after two days of talks in Kazakhstan over the long-standing issue ended with Iran failing to secure a partial reprieve from sanctions that have crippled its oil-based economy. The talks in the Kazakh city of Almaty between Iran and the so-called P5+1 nations—the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany—were the first since inconclusive talks in Moscow last June and the subsequent imposition of an EU ban on Iranian oil imports last July.
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