Top EU diplomat hopeful for deal at Iran nuclear talks

WEISSENHAUS, Germany (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief says he’s hopeful that stalled talks with Iran over the country’s nuclear program can yield an agreement. Talks between Tehran and world powers have deadlocked partly over Iran’s demand for the United States to lift a terrorist designation on the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. The EU’s high representative for foreign policy, Josep Borrell, said Friday that the EU’s envoy visited Tehran this week for talks that had “gone better than expected.” Meanwhile, the EU envoy said he was briefly detained with colleagues at Frankfurt Airport while transiting from Tehran to Brussels, in breach of diplomatic rules.