Key points of the Iranian nuclear deal

Iran and six leading world powers signed a comprehensive plan for ending international sanctions against Iran in exchange for putting restrictions on its controversial nuclear program. RT takes a look at the groundbreaking document.

The deal signed in Vienna on Tuesday is meant to break a 12-year standoff over Iran's nuclear activities, which some nations claimed involved military research. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) acknowledges Iran's right for peaceful nuclear development on par with any other signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The agreement provides for a joint commission to be established to monitor the implementation of the action plan and handle dispute situations. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is tasked with verifying voluntary nuclear-related measures by Iran. Iran and the six nations - China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK and the US, are to hold ministerial-level meetings at least once every two years to monitor the progress.

© AFP / President.irA handout picture released by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's official website shows him (R) listening to an expert during a tour of Tehran's research reactor centre on February 15, 2012

Enrichment

For 15 years Iran will carry out enrichment only at the Natanz facility and will only enrich uranium up to 3.67 percent. The stockpile would not exceed 300kg of uranium hexafluoride or equivalent chemical forms. The stockpile limit does not include fuel assemblies used in Iran's nuclear reactors. Excesses are to be sold or exchanged for raw uranium.

The Fordow facility is to be converted into an internationally-supported technological center. Some of the centrifuges currently placed there would be allowed to continue spinning, but they would only produce stable isotopes and not enrich uranium. Some of the equipment will be removed completely.

Iran will start phasing out its older IR-1 centrifuges in 10 years, will not develop new models, will not increase the number of more advanced centrifuges currently in its possession, and will observe certain restrictions on testing them.

Arak

Iran will modify the Arak nuclear reactor with the help of the international community. It will be used for peaceful research and isotope production. It will not produce plutonium. Spent fuel will be shipped out of Iran for entire lifetime of the reactor. Iran keeps a leadership role in the Arak partnership.

No heavy water will be produced or accumulated for 15 years and Tehran will seek to use reactor designs not requiring heavy water.

Iran is to leave spent fuel re-processing to other nations.

Transparency

Iran will adopt several additional safeguards and allow the IAEA to verify those voluntary measures. The nuclear watchdog is to monitor uranium stockpiles and centrifuges in Iran, including with modern surveillance measures like online enrichment measurement and electronic seals.

Tehran pledges not to conduct research that could conduct development of a nuclear explosive device, as specified in a technical annex to the agreement.

Lifting of sanctions

The UN Security Council will lift its nuclear-related sanctions from Iran simultaneously with the IAEA-verified implementation of certain measure by Iran. The EU and the US will lift their sanctions, including on banking services, insurance, sale of aircraft parts, access to airports and a multitude of others, at the same moment.

Proliferation-related sanctions will be lifted by the EU and the US eight years after the adoption of the agreement or when the IAEA greenlights it. The wordings for America's actions to lift the restrictions apparently provides for eventual legal battles of the current and future administrations against legislators and individual state authorities to scrap the sanctions.

The US and the EU are expected not to impose new nuclear-related sanctions against Iran as long as the deal holds and respect the spirit and intent of the deal by issuing guidelines and not seeking to hurt normalization of trade with Iran.

Reader Comments

katesisco · 2015-07-14T16:11:33Z

Too convenient.........

Over a decade of restrictions against trade with Iran while Turkey was cultivated with car manufacturing companies and the Euro zone was built. Hmmmmm..... At long last an agreement to lift trade embargoes and Greece is sacrificed to complete the Euro zone... Hmmmmmm.
Tit for tat. Not quite game theory. We have one of yours and we'll trade for ours. Hostage taking. Politics made simple.

lydia · 2015-07-14T17:35:47Z

Iran

is now a huge, huge, huge market. Incredible. Plus his petroleum. This deal is excellent for the empire. I don't know for Iran? And how easy they are, in the official media news to be condescending with Iran, continue to use propaganda. Like giving the image that Iranians will be very, extremely happy because they will be able to go to USA... or things like that.

locust · 2015-07-14T18:18:33Z

"...some nations claimed involved military research"

total BS

"Reuters put it another way: "The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran's nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead."

But none of that is important. Kerry now has a feather in his cap, the US can spend a few days chest-thumping, and the sheeple will sleep well because its mis-leaders have again saved them from…nothing.

just thinking · 2015-07-15T15:32:04Z

The ‘talks’ on Iran have finally come to a solution after only thirty years of privation, torture and murder in which millions have died and hundreds of thousands more were displaced by illegally applied SANCTIONS that were paid for by the people living in Iran. The United States applied the sanctions six years after the Arms for Hostages deal and the Reagan era of Guns for Drugs and wholesale Death-Squad wars on the people in Central America for which America has never paid any price at all.

The talks that just concluded were not perfect, but at least most of the people in Iran, will finally get some relief. But many of the real issues will remain, thanks to Israel and the intransigent USI positions in the world.

Iran won some small part of their determination to be able to provide nuclear-energy for themselves, against the day when their supply of oil runs out. However it would seem that Iran and the USI ought to be looking for a permanent replacement for “nuclear-energy” because of the global lesson that Fukushima provides to the world.

The United States currently has 27 nuclear plants that are in the same condition that Japan was when Israel and USI used Stutnex technology to blow up Fukushima. Yet America refuses to either fix or replace the damaged US nuclear plants. This is insanity, given what happened in Japan. Iran at least has the choice to choose other methods for their ‘energy problems’, while the US is determined to wait for the day when the United States becomes completely radiated by our broken nuclear plants.

Meanwhile Israel is very publicly going insane: Demanding that the US sabotage the agreement to protect Israel from weapons which Iran cannot now build. The ‘congress’ of the US is vowing to cancel the deal because it ‘threatens’ Israel.
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