The latest on the talks coming over financial news are that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said the Western sanctions over Ukraine had become a stumbling block for the nuclear deal.
US Sec State is trying to paint a brighter picture:
- "These things are totally different and just are not, in any way, linked together. So I think that's irrelevant," Blinken said in an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation" TV show.
- added that a potential deal with Iran was close
- cautioned that very challenging remaining issues were unresolved
Lavrov and Blinken