Iran agrees to outline for nuclear deal
But details need to be worked out before June deadline; diplomats say it could collapse at any time before then
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Lausanne, Switzerland
IRAN and the US, along with five other world powers, announced on Thursday a surprisingly specific and comprehensive understanding on limiting Teheran's nuclear programme for the next 15 years, though they left several specific issues to a final agreement in June.
After two years of negotiations, capped by eight tumultuous days and nights of talks that appeared on the brink of breakdown several times, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, announced the plan that, if carried out, would keep Iran's nuclear facilities open, under strict production limits, and holds the potential of reordering America's relationship with a country that has been an avowed adversary for 35 years.
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