- Title: Timeline of Iran nuclear developments in 2019
- Date: 28th December 2019
- Summary: Iran and six major world powers reached a historic deal on July 14, 2015, lifting sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations in return for Iran agreeing to long-term curbs on its nuclear programme. For then-U.S. president Barack Obama, the diplomacy with Iran begun in secret more than two years earlier. While the main negotiations were between the United States and Iran, the four other U.N. Security Council permanent members - Britain, China, France and Russia - were also parties to the deal, as was Germany. VIENNA, AUSTRIA (FILE - JULY 14, 2015) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE P5+1 COUNTRIES, (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI, FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER LAURENT FABIUS, GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER FRANK-WALTER STEINMEIER, EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF FEDERICA MOGHERINI, FOREIGN MINISTER OF IRAN MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF, HEAD OF THE IRANIAN ATOMIC NUCLEAR ORGANISATION ALI AKBAR SALEHI. RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY PHILIP HAMMOND, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY AND U.S. ENERGY SECRETARY ERNEST MONIZ LINED UP FOR GROUP PHOTO ZARIF LAUGHING / EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF FEDERICA MOGHERINI, STANDING NEXT TO HIM SERGEI LAVROV (LEFT) STANDING WITH PHILIP HAMMOND (MIDDLE) AND JOHN KERRY (RIGHT) European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini announced Iran and six major powers reached an agreement to curb the Iranian nuclear programme in exchange for economic sanctions relief. VIENNA, AUSTRIA (FILE - JULY 14, 2015) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF FEDERICA MOGHERINI, SAYING: "Today is an historic day. It's a great honour for us to announce that we have reached an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue. With courage, political will, mutual respect and leadership, we delivered on what the world was hoping for - a shared commitment to peace and to join hands in order to make our world safer."
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- Keywords: 2015 nuclear deal French President Emmanuel Macron Hassan Rouhani IAEA Iran Iran nuclear Russia Tehran U.S. President Donald Trump nuclear deal uranium enrichment
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