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| Iran nuclear talks: Framework for final deal reached after eight days of negotiations | |
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| Iran and the European Union are believed to have put together a framework for an agreement on the Middle Eastern nation's nuclear programme, following eight days of intensive talks. | |
| Today's successful talks will allow for further negotiations before a final agreement must be reached by the 30 June deadline, and will conclude with a joint statement between Iranian and six major powers this evening in Lausanne, Switzerland. | |
| The framework was developed after a midnight deadline on Tuesday was extended. | |
| Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweets: "Found solutions. Ready to start drafting immediately." | Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweets: "Found solutions. Ready to start drafting immediately." |
| Shortly after, the German Foreign Ministry mirrored Mr Zafir’s tweeted: "Agreement for framework for final agreement reached." | Shortly after, the German Foreign Ministry mirrored Mr Zafir’s tweeted: "Agreement for framework for final agreement reached." |
| EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini tweets that she will meet the press with Zarif after a final meeting of the seven nations in the nuclear talks. She writes, “Good news.” | |
| A Western official told Reuters that it remains unclear how much detail would be released in the joint statement to be issued by Zarif and Mogherini, who has acted as a coordinator for the six powers - Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. | |
| The outcome of the statement will be addressed in a new conference by US Secretary of State John Kerry. | |
| The talks aim to prevent Tehran from from developing a nuclear bomb, while allowing the nation to preserve what is argues is its right to develop peaceful nuclear technology. It also hopes the process will result in an easing of sanctions, which have damaged its economy. | |
| The US wants to extend the "breakout time" Iran would need to obtain the enriched uranium needed to make a bomb should it decide to pursue one, by placing limits on Iran's use of centrifuges to make the material and on its stockpiles. | |
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