By Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has reduced demands for the size of its future nuclear enrichment program in talks with world powers although Western governments are urging Tehran to compromise further, Western diplomats said on Thursday. The diplomats, who spoke to Reuters at the start of a two- week round of negotiations between Iran and the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, said it would still be hard to clinch a deal by the self-imposed July 20 deadline. Tehran's shift relates to the main sticking point in the talks - the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges Iran can maintain in a deal in exchange for a gradual end of sanctions. Ending the decade-long dispute with Iran is seen as central to defusing tension and averting a new Middle East war.
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