Iran and the P5+1 Group of countries have adopted a joint statement for the removal of United Nations Security Council resolutions and sanctions against Iran in exchange of greatly limiting Iran’s uranium-enrichment programme. The framework agreement is called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which is intended to completely put an end to Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Important Points to note in the Nuclear Agreement

• Iran is permitted to keep its nuclear facilities for civilian uses only, but those facilities would be subject to strict production limits.
• Two facilities will be converted into research sites without fissile material.
• Iran should reduce the number of centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium, by two-thirds to 5,060.
• Iran must reduce its stockpile of low-enriched uranium from 10,000 kg to 300 kg, which will not be enough for a nuclear weapon, at least for the next 15 years.
• Iran has agreed to redesign a heavy-water reactor at Arak in a way that would keep it from producing plutonium, a weapons-usable fuel.
• The Iranians won the right to research, but not to use more modern machines for production for the next 10 years.
• Iran should implement the Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency, providing greater access and information regarding its nuclear programme.

The P5+1 include all the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council., ie United States, United Kingdom, France, China and Russia plus Germany.