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Iran president honors nuclear team for historic deal

Xinhua, February 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

President Hassan Rouhani awarded the Iranian nuclear negotiating team on Monday with medals of honor for clinching an historic deal with world powers in July last year.

He awarded the first class medals of "Merit" and "Courage" to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, and to Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan.

"Today is the day to express gratitude to the devoted chiefs who defended the (rights of) nation in the international arena," Rouhani said in the awarding ceremony.

The deal, reached on July 14 last year between Iran and five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, or P5+1, ended a decade-long dispute over Tehran's controversial nuclear program.

The agreement resulted in the lifting of international and Western nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions on Iran in exchange for wide-scale limitation on the country's nuclear activities for specific period of time. Endit