“We hope that an agreement can be reached,” White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said on Friday.
“We remain hopeful that we can reach an agreement with all of our P5+1 allies and the Iranians in Geneva,” he added.
Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the US, France, Britain, Russia and China -- plus Germany kicked off their latest round of talks on Wednesday.
The two sides are working to hammer out an interim deal to pave the ground for the resolution of the West’s decade-old standoff with Iran over the country’s nuclear energy program.
Meanwhile, IRNA news agency has quoted an unnamed Western diplomat as saying that the six world powers have accepted the Islamic Republic’s right to enrich uranium.
Earlier in the day, Iran reiterated its right to uranium enrichment, with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif saying, “Our right to enrichment is our red line. The enrichment program that Iran has, will continue.... Any agreement should include enrichment program for Iran. We will not accept anything else other than that.”
