Update: Iran's Rouhani says nuclear deal opens new chapter in ties with world, angers and applauds observed in Mideast

The nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers is a new chapter in the relations between Iran and the International community, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said here in a live TV broadcast following a nuclear agreement between Iran and the world major powers on Tuesday.

In the speech, he also said that all Iranian objectives in the nuclear talks are met in the deal.

Iran's nuclear capabilities are preserved and nuclear activities will continue in the country, Rouhani said. The wrong and oppressive sanctions are removed, including UN security council sanctions against the country, he added.

Also, despite previous demands to rid Iran of centrifuges, Iran will keep 5,000 centrifuges in Natanz nuclear facility and 1,000 in Fordow. The centrifuges in Natanz will continue uranium enrichment, Rouhani said.

Earlier, Rouhani confirmed the deal on his Twitter account.

"Iran deal shows constructive engagement works. With this unnecessary crisis resolved, new horizons emerge with a focus on shared challenges," Rouhani posted on his Twitter account.

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have agreed to accelerate cooperation to fully resolve all prior issues, he added.

Rouhani previously praised the nuclear talks as a victory of diplomacy and mutual respect over outdated paradigm of exclusion.

Under the deal, Iran will be recognized by the United Nations as a nuclear technology power in possession of peaceful nuclear program, including complete uranium enrichment cycle, official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran's nuclear program now is considered as a subject for international cooperation, within international standards, the report added, quoting a summary of the nuclear deal.

Also according to the summary, all UN financial and economic sanctions will be removed at once within the framework of the deal and by a new UN resolution.

The European Union (EU) and the U.S. sanctions on Iran's banking, oil, gas, petrochemical, trade, insurance, transportation sectors will be lifted once the deal is put into practice, while tens of billions of dollars worth of Iranian revenues will be unfrozen.

However, Iran's arms embargo will be replaced by restrictions that allow import and export of defensive items. These restrictions will be removed in five years. Ban on Iran's missile program will be limited to ballistic missiles that can be used to carry nuclear warheads.

With the deal, Tehran will also be able to import sensitive double-purpose goods (such as radioactive medicine) through a joint committee of Iran and P5+1.

Iran will be also able to engage in international cooperation to construct newer nuclear reactors, research reactors and other advanced nuclear facilities.

Iran's nuclear facilities will continue to work, and none of them will be shut down or dismantled. The country will also keep uranium enrichment activities.

Under the deal, Arak will remain a heavy water reactor but will be modernized and equipped with the world's most advanced and safest technologies, said the report.

Iran will be recognized as a producer of nuclear products, especially enriched uranium and heavy water. It will be able to import and export nuclear products.

ISRAEL'S ANGER

However, just hours after the news of the agreement broke out, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a long-time critic of the deal, slammed on Tuesday the nuclear agreement as a "historic mistake."

"The deal is a bad mistake of historic proportions," Netanyahu said at the beginning of his meeting with visiting Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.

"When you are willing to have an agreement at any price, this is the result ... In all fields in which they (P5+1) were supposed to prevent Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons, far-reaching concessions were made," Netanyahu said.

He said that Iran will also receive hundreds of billions of dollars as a result of the removal of the economic sanctions, which, he claimed, could "fuel its terror machine" and the Islamic country's aggression across the Middle East.

Hitting back on some of his critics in Israel who slammed him for not preventing the agreement, Netanyahu said that he "couldn't prevent an agreement, as those negotiating were willing to make more and more concessions."

"We did make an obligation to prevent Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons and we will stick with this commitment," he added, possibly alluding to a preemptive Israeli airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities which he had hinted at in the past.

APPLAUDS

Despite Israel's harsh criticism, countries in the region like Turkey and Syria have applauded the historic nuclear deal.

The nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is "great news for Turkish economy," as it would likely to boost bilateral trade and the investments with the neighboring country, Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz posted in his Twitter account on Tuesday.

The minister also said that Iran is an important country because of its natural gas and oil resources.

Turkey is a major importer of Iranian natural gas with almost 10 billion U.S. dollars in 2014.

In Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad congratulated his main ally Iran on the nuclear deal, while his government called the agreement a "historic" one, according to the state news agency SANA.

Al-Assad has also sent letters of congratulations to Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and Iran President Hassan Rouhani, said SANA. Endit