US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are meeting in Muscat, capital of the Gulf sultanate of Oman.
At stake is a long-term nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany.
Kerry and Zarif held more than five hours of talks on Sunday, with former EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the lead negotiator in the talks.
With both Iran and the US facing pressure at home over the talks, President Barack Obama said in a CBS News interview screened Sunday that the sides were still far apart.
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