DETAILS OF HISTORIC NUCLEAR DEAL BETWEEN IRAN AND MAJOR POWERS:
- reached on day 18 of marathon talks in Vienna
- deal resolves 13-year stand-off over Iran's nuclear ambitions
- places strict limits on Iran's nuclear activities for at least a decade
- calls for stringent UN oversight
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- an international arms embargo against Iran will remain for five years but deliveries would be possible with special permission of the UN Security Council
- Tehran to allow the UN atomic watchdog tightly controlled "managed access" to military bases; UN nuclear watchdog will have to verify that Iran does indeed scale down its facilities
- Tehran will slash by around two-thirds the number of centrifuges from around 19,000 to 6,104
- international sanctions that have slashed the oil exports of OPEC's fifth-largest producer by a quarter will be lifted
- billions of dollars in frozen assets will be unblocked
- US Congress has 60 days to review the agreement
- the Iranian parliament and the UN Security Council also have to approve it
- France says it expects UN Security Council approval "within days"
