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As the project to expand rail service to the South Coast moves closer to 30 percent completion, critics hope that the South Coast Rail Project could come to an end in the 2016. This means that building a 52 mile commuter rail service that would run through Stoughton, Easton and Raynham that would link Boston with Fall River and New Bedford, could be in jeopardy.

Iran and the U.S. have tentatively agreed on a formula that Washington hopes will reduce Tehran's ability to make nuclear arms by committing it to ship to Russia much of the material needed for such weapons, diplomats say.