(VOVworld) - Senior officials from the United States and Iran resumed talks Monday on Tehran's disputed nuclear program three weeks after world powers missed a deadline for reaching a deal.

he two Iranian deputy foreign ministers Abbas Araghchi and Majid Takht Ravanchi , who are leading the Iranian negotiating team in Geneva (Photo: Reuters)

According to a diplomatic source, the two-day discussions in Geneva will be followed by a meeting on Wednesday involving the political directors of the other five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany and the European Union. It is the first time Iran and the P5+1 have met since failing to meet a November 24th deadline for a comprehensive deal on reining in Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for an easing of crippling international sanctions. The global powers and Iran agreed to give themselves seven more months, until June 30^th, to strike a deal, although they hope to have the broad outlines hammered out by March.