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Wendy Sherman to leave post as chief US negotiator with Iran

US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on April 3, 2015. (AFP photo)

The chief US negotiator in nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran will depart her post shortly after the June 30 deadline for a comprehensive nuclear agreement between Tehran and the P5+1.

Wendy Sherman, who is under secretary of state for political affairs at the US State Department, made her intentions known before leaving for Austria and Switzerland on Wednesday for a last round of talks aimed at reaching a final nuclear accord, according to The New York Times.

With her departure, all the top US negotiators with Iran will have left the Obama administration, the report said.

Sherman, who first served in the State Department under the Clinton administration, was appointed to her current post in 2011 by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

US President Barack Obama, who sees a nuclear deal with Iran as among his biggest foreign policy achievements, said he has “long counted on Wendy’s unique combination of intellect, toughness and persistence, which have made her one of the most effective diplomats of her generation.”

Secretary of State John Kerry also described Sherman as “an absolutely critical member of my team, most notably in her work spearheading the nuclear negotiations with Iran.”

Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are set to meet in the Swiss city of Geneva on Saturday to try to narrow the remaining differences between Tehran and the P5+1 countries over the text of a final agreement.

Representatives of Iran and the P5+1—the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, began their latest round of talks on drafting the text of a final nuclear deal in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Wednesday.

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