Date: 11/24/2013
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| Iran Geneva Accord 2013 |
After weeks of negotiations between diplomats from Iran, US, the UK, Russia, China, France and Germany, Iran has agreed to temporarily freeze its nuclear program while a larger deal is negotiated.
The
international agreement would give negotiators time to iron out a deal
that would ensure that Iran's nuclear program would only be used towards
peaceful ends, and not in pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Over the last
few years, Iran has been enriching uranium to 20%, a level close to that
which could be used in a weapon. Iran has now agreed to stop enriching
at 5%, and dismantle links between centrifuges (which help enrich
Uranium) and it has also promised to stop building new centrifuges.
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