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Wed Jul 15, 2015, 09:57 AM Jul 2015

Israeli Paper; The preamble includes an Iranian pledge never to develop or purchase nuclear weapons

Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, and company need to hush up.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.665945

After more than two weeks of marathon talks, a deal on Iran’s nuclear program was announced in Vienna on Tuesday.

The preamble includes an Iranian pledge never to develop or purchase nuclear weapons. The rest of the 159-page agreement, along with its five annexes, detail all the provisions meant to ensure this pledge is kept.

But Tuesday’s announcement is just the start of a lengthy process that will be overseen by an eight-member committee, comprised of representatives of the eight parties that negotiated the agreement – Iran, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union.

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Stringent inspections

As part of the deal, Iran pledged to sign the Additional Protocol to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which enables more stringent supervision by the IAEA. It also agreed to additional supervisory measures, including monitoring of its uranium mines and its production of raw uranium for 25 years. Its production of centrifuges and centrifuge parts will be under supervision for 20 years.

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