November 22, 2013.

Iran Deal Stuck Over Uranium Enrichment

"I hated the sight of you,' he said. "I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards. Two weeks ago I thought seriously of smashing your head in with a cobblestone. If you really want to know, I imagined that you had something to do with the Thought Police."

GENEVA----Iran's demand that the West recognize what it says is its right to enrich uranium has emerged as one of the final missing pieces in an interim nuclear agreement with global powers, according to Iranian, American and European officials.

The girl laughed delightedly, evidently taking this as a tribute to the excellence of her disguise.

Diplomats from Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, a group known as the P5+1, are meeting in Geneva to try to reach a deal that would offer Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for curbing some activities that the West suspects are aimed at making a nuclear weapon, a charge Iran denies.

"Not the Thought Police! You didn't honestly think that?"

The diplomats held a second day of talks in a bid to close gaps that blocked an interim agreement nearly two weeks ago. Officials described the talks as detailed, but said that by late Thursday some key, sensitive issues remained unresolved.