At 2:04 a.m. Sunday, a one-word email message flashed suddenly on the phones of weary State Department staffers working the corridors of Geneva's InterContinental Hotel.
"DEAL."
In four characters, the message signaled an improbable success: an agreement, reached in 60 days of marathon bargaining, to impose sweeping restrictions on Iran's nuclear program. Only it wasn't quite true.
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