Spotlight: Iran hails nuclear deal while yearning for a new chapter

The nuclear deal between Iran and the world powers will open a new chapter in the relations between Iran and the International community, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday.

Addressing here in a live TV broadcast following a nuclear agreement between Iran and the world major powers, he said that all Iranian objectives in the nuclear talks are met in the deal.

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

Rouhani praised the nuclear talks as a victory of diplomacy and mutual respect over outdated paradigm of exclusion.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

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

However, 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.

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

Egypt hopes that the agreement reached between Iran and world powers would lead the Middle East region to security and stability, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

"We hope it will stop the eruption of an armament race in the Middle East and will free it from WMD (weapons of mass destruction), including nuclear ones," Foreign Ministry's spokesman Badr Abdel-Atty said in the statement.

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.

Analysts here expect that the long-waited Iranian nuclear deal will likely trigger a domino effect in the Middle East, including ushering in positive impact on the Syrian crisis.

The conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Iraq are considered, one way or another, as echoes to the larger conflict between the West and Iran over the latter's nuclear program, they said. Endit