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epa03957077 Iranian female students join in forming a human chain around the Fordo nuclear facilities in the city of Qom central Iran, 19 November 2013, to show their support for Iran's nuclear program. Slogans on placards read in Arabic: 'We insist on our nuclear right' (L) and 'We will follow your way dear martyr nuclear scientists' (R). Countries involved in talks over Iran's nuclear programme said ahead of this week's new round in Geneva that a deal is within reach, even though the negotiations are taking place under increasing political pressure. The Geneva talks have been accompanied by intense lobbying from Israel, which sees a nuclear-armed Iran as a threat to its existence and does not rule out military strikes against Iran's nuclear sites, should diplomacy fail. EPA/STR