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By Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran and six global powers struggled on Friday to overcome stumbling blocks holding up an interim deal under which Tehran would restrain its contested nuclear program in exchange for some relief from punitive sanctions. Western diplomats played down the prospect of a pending breakthrough in the talks that began on Wednesday after a November 7-9 round in which the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany came close to winning concessions they count on to reduce the risk of an Iranian nuclear weapon. But Iran's insistence that the six powers explicitly acknowledge its right to enrich uranium - a process which can yield both electricity and nuclear bombs - was proving a major political obstacle. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Tehran's chief negotiator, said significant headway had been made.
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