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Iran rejects site inspections in a nuclear deal

FILE In this April 27, 2015 file-pool photo, Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York. A month out from a nuclear deal deadline, the top U.S. and Iranian diplomats are gathering in Geneva this weekend, hoping to bridge differences over how quickly to ease economic sanctions on Tehran and how significantly the Iranians must open up military facilities to international inspections. Kerry and Zarif will meet Saturday. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File-Pool)
In this April 27, 2015 file-pool photo, Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York. (AP)

Iran rejects site inspections in a nuclear deal

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif planned to meet Saturday

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Senior Iranian negotiator Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that questioning Iranian scientists and military site inspections are "out of the question" in a final nuclear agreement with world powers.

Araghchi's comments to state television come as Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his U.S. counterpart John Kerry were meeting for crucial talks in Geneva to try and hammer out a historic nuclear deal ahead of a June 30 deadline.

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