Lavrov Claims Agreement with Iran Reached

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, claimed on Tuesday night that Iran and the six major world powers had reached a preliminary agreement on “all the key aspects” of a deal over Tehran’s nuclear program and the sides have begun drafting the text, Russia Today reports.

 

Diplomats close to the negotiations rejected the claims as untrue, however.

 

Experts from Iran and the so-called P5+1 have started drafting a preliminary deal and the document could be expected either within the next few hours or later on Wednesday, Lavrov said, adding that the “technical details” of a final deal may take until June.

 

“We can quite certainly say that on all the key aspects of the final settlement of this problem, the ministers have reached principal consent that will be, hopefully in the next hours, maybe a day, put on paper. The experts were tasked with this,” Lavrov told reporters, according to Russia Today.

 

The preliminary agreement will include the verification of mechanisms guaranteeing the peaceful nature of Tehran’s nuclear program and will stipulate the lifting of sanctions, he added.

 

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