By Louis Charbonneau, Fredrik Dahl and Justyna Pawlak GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will join nuclear talks between major powers and Iran in Geneva on Friday in an attempt to nail down a long-elusive accord to start resolving a decade-old standoff over Tehran's atomic aims. Kerry, on a Middle East tour, will fly to the Swiss city at the invitation of European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in "an effort to help narrow differences" in the negotiations, a senior State Department official said. Ashton is coordinating talks with Iran on behalf of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany. U.S. President Barack Obama said the international community could slightly ease sanctions against Iran in the early stages of negotiating a comprehensive deal on Tehran's atomic program to remove fears about Iranian nuclear intentions.

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