By Parisa Hafezi and Louis Charbonneau VIENNA (Reuters) - The biggest hurdle Iran and world powers must overcome to clinch a lasting deal on Tehran's nuclear programme by a July deadline is agreeing on the future scope of uranium enrichment in the Islamic Republic, officials and diplomats said on Thursday. An Iranian official said it will be \"very difficult though not impossible\" to bridge the divide. Western officials said Iran and the six powers must agree not only on the number and type of centrifuge machines Iran will operate but also the level of enrichment and size of uranium stocks Tehran can accumulate. Iran has defied a U.N. Security Council ban on uranium enrichment and other sensitive nuclear activities, resulting in crippling U.S., U.N. and European Union sanctions.
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