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President Barack Obama says the deal, which swaps sanctions relief for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program, is the best way to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

The majority of Americans support the new agreement between major world powers and Iran regarding its controversial nuclear program.

— REIMPOSING U.N. SANCTIONS: If one of the parties to the nuclear deal, like the United States, determines that Iran is not fulfilling its commitments, it can ask for a Security Council vote on a new resolution to continue the lifting of all U.N sanctions resolutions on Iran.

But Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has publicly said he doesn’t fully believe in the agreement.

Iran and Germany were historically close trade partners but business dropped off as a result of the sanctions, declining to €2.4bn previous year from around €8bn in 2003-2004, according to German figures. Gabriel is heading a delegation of representatives from German companies.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) warned Sunday that Iran will “cheat” on the nuclear agreement with the Obama administration and other power and could develop a nuclear weapon within a decade.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is widely expected to reshuffle his Cabinet, following a rebellion within his party over a parliament vote to approve painful austerity measures demanded for new bailout talks to start. A large number of Syriza lawmakers are...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out “a classic haircut” – a markdown of Greece’s debts.

Israel has been strongly critical of the agreement struck this week between its arch-foe Iran and six world powers that would see Tehran curb its nuclear programme in return for a gradual lifting of sanctions.

The package of measures, which had to be approved to open talks on a new multibillion euro bailout, was passed with 229 votes and 64 against in the 300-seat chamber.

The rest of us are merely “infidels” to the religious dictators who are looking to revive their Hidden Mahdi through nuclear destruction and I would give this agreement a big thumbs-down.

Hassan Rouhani said Iranian negotiators came away from the talks in Vienna with “achievements beyond the nuclear” agreement and succeeded in having “aviation sanctions removed”.

Following an emotional debate and early-morning vote, the country’s parliament approved a raft of austerity measures that its global creditors had demanded as a first step before negotiating a final rescue deal. A total of 64 MPs voted No and six abstained.

Iran has always denied charges that it was seeking to build a nuclear bomb, insisting its nuclear programme was for peaceful purposes only. Moving forward and with the rapidly fading of the failed slogan of the Great Satan into oblivious bin of history, it is also inevitably...

The first big development Friday was the news that German lawmakers, in the wake of their Austrian counterparts, voted 439-119 in favor of opening detailed discussions on the bailout package.