Secret US-Iran talks paved way for nuclear deal --- Meetings that ran parallel to official negotiations help achieve most significant Washington-Tehran agreement since 1979 -- The Obama administration asked journalists not to publish details they had uncovered of the secret diplomacy until the Geneva talks were over for fear of derailing them. The Associated Press and a Washington-based news website, Al-Monitor, finally did so on Sunday. -- • Stop enriching uranium above 5%, reactor-grade, and dilute its stock of 20%-enriched uranium, removing a major proliferation concern.-- • Not to increase its stockpile of low-enriched uranium. -- • Freeze its enrichment capacity by not installing any more centrifuges, leaving more than half of its existing 16,000 centrifuges inoperable. -- • Not to fuel or to commission the heavy-water reactor it is building in Arak or build a reprocessing plant that could produce plutonium from the spent fuel. -- • Accept more intrusive nuclear inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency, including daily visits to some facilities. - More, Guardian