Iran and major powers held a second day of talks Thursday seeking to finalize a historic nuclear deal

Iran and major powers held a second day of talks Thursday seeking to finalize a historic nuclear deal.
  
Meeting in Vienna, Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany want to turn a framework accord reached in Switzerland on April 2 into a full agreement by June 30.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi, who is leading the Iranian delegation in the talks, began the second meeting of Wednesday with the EU political director, Helga Schmid.

The two sides had sat down for the first round of negotiations earlier in the day as part of a meeting that was also attended by Hamid Baeidinejad, director general for political affairs at the Iranian Foreign Ministry, as well as Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs Majid Takht-e Ravanchi and other experts.

Representatives of the P5+1 group of countries, including US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, are expected to join the talks on Friday.

In comments made on Wednesday, Araqchi stressed that the Iranian delegation in the new round of the nuclear talks will demand that the US representatives in the negotiations provide the Iranian team with “clear, precise information” on “the details related to the lifting of the sanctions.”