'Shared commitment to peace'

In a joint press conference, EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini described today as “historic” and stated that the achievement is the result of a collective effort.

“With courage, political will, mutual respect and leadership we delivered on what the world was hoping for: a shared commitment to peace and joined hands to make our world safer.”

“No one thought this would be easy,” she continued. “Historic decisions never are. We have always been aware we had a responsibility to our generation and future ones.”

Under the deal, Mogherini said, Iran “reaffirms that under no circumstances will it seek, acquire or develop nuclear weapons” in return for the “complete lifting of all sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear programme.”

Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zafir read out the same paper in Farsi.