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1st LD: EU foreign policy chief formally announces nuclear deal with Iran

Xinhua, July 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Iran and six world major countries have adopted an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue, European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini formally announced here on Tuesday.

"What we are announcing today is not just a deal, it is a good deal ... today is a historical day," Mogherini told a joint press conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Ensuring "Iran's nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful," the two diplomats said "Iran confirms that Iran under no circumstances will seek or acquire nuclear weapons."

Earlier on Tuesday, a diplomatic source confirmed that the historic agreement had been reached between Iran and the six world major countries.

The comprehensive agreement was clinched between Iran and the P5 Plus One group -- namely Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany -- after more than two weeks of bargain in the capital city of Austria.

The text of the deal is around 100 pages with five annexes, which specify key areas of the Iranian nuclear issue, including sanction relief and action plan, nuclear technology cooperation, the committee of the monitoring of the implementation, capping of Iran's nuclear capacity, and draft of UN Security Council resolution, according to the source. Endit