Major states reached a historic nuclear deal with Iran (2)

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İhsan Ekici / Vienna, July 14 () - Six major powers, US, UK, France, Russia, China  and Germany, have reached a historic nuclear deal with Iran, ingcluding to grant Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme.

German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian ambassador to IAEA Ali Akbar Salehi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were attending the talks in Vienna.

Tehran and the six powers have been holding marathon diplomatic negotiations at the ministerial level for more than two weeks to resolve a 12-year stand-off over Iran's nuclear programme.

Under the deal, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations would be lifted in return for Iran agreeing long-term curbs on a nuclear programme that the West has suspected was aimed at creating a nuclear bomb.