Iran deal: What happens when?
- In the next few days, the deal will pass to the UN Security Council so that it can be officially ratified and passed.
In America, Congress has 60 days to review the agreement, and there are fears that it will try to reject the deal and keep Iranian sanctions in place. Obama has already said he will veto any attempt to do this.
There is no specific date for the sanctions to be lifted – instead it says that this will happen when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has verified that Iran has taken steps to shrink its programme, UN, US and EU sanctions will be lifted.
Restrictions on trading conventional weapons with Iran will last another five years.
An embargo on missile trading will last another eight years from now.
Iran is going to reduce its stockpile of enriched Uranium, and there will be stockpile restrictions in place for the next 15 years.
There is also a 15 year restriction on the country building any new heavy water reactors.
The IAEA's authority to continuously monitor the entire uranium supply line and certain Iranian cites will be extended to cover the next 25 years.
Iran is also permanently prohibited from pursuing a nuclear weapons programme.