From Bibi’s bomb to a nuclear deal – A timeline of events
Timeline – Iran Nuclear Talks: September 2012-present
September 2012
Israel’s Prime Minister Benhamin Netanyahu’s displays a cartoon ‘bomb’, representing the Iranian nuclear threat. During his speech, he drew a red line on a cartoon bomb and said Iran was only a year away from having an atomic weapon.
November 2012
The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) reports that Iran is continuing to produce Uranium enriched to 20%.
March 2013
The United States begin a series of secret meetings with Iranian officials.
June 2013
Hassan Rouhani is elected president of Iran, and is believed to be more pragmatic and willing to cooperate in comparison to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (the previous president of Iran), yet asserts the country will maintain its nuclear program.
September 2013
A phone call takes place between US president Barack Obama and Rouhani; the first contact between leaders of the US and Iran since 1979.
November 2013
Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Russia, UK, US and Germany) reach an interim agreement, labelled the joint plan of action, limiting Iran’s nuclear programme and unfreezing some Iranian assets.
July 2014
Deadline for a comprehensive agreement is not met and is to be extended until November 2014.
READ MORE:
- Netanyahu blasts Iran nuclear deal as ‘bad mistake of historic proportions
- VIDEO: Obama: ‘Iran nuclear deal built on verification, not trust’
- Israeli PM targets Iranians on Twitter with new Farsi account
- VIDEO: Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement on the #IranDeal
- Cameron: ‘Historic’ Iran deal will “help make our world a safer place”
November 2014
Again the deadline is not met and is extended to June 2015.
March 2015
Foreign ministers from France, the UK, Germany, China and Iran meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, and compile a finalised agreement.
April 2015
Iranians celebrate as it is announced that sanctions relief will be given as consequence of restrictions being imposed on Iran’s nuclear programme deal.
June 2015
No official deal has been achieved, yet meetings continue between P5+1 and Iran ahead of the 30th June deadline.
Obama claims he will walk away from the deal if Tehran does not stick to the agreed outline.
July 2015
Foreign ministers from the P5+1 meet in Vienna. John Kerry [the then US Secretary of State) claims negotiations could go ‘either way’ and there is ‘no rush’ to conclude negotiations.
The deadline to reach an agreement is pushed back to 13 July. President Rouhani claims Iran had ‘managed to amaze the world’. Zarif remarks he is feeling ‘sleepy and overworked’ as the new deadline is missed.
14 July 2015
Barack Obama announces a historic agreement that ‘every path to a nuclear weapon is cut off’ for Iran, and the deal is not built on trust, but rather ‘verification’. Obama claims the deal is a ‘step away from the spectre of conflict and towards the possibility of peace.’
READ MORE:
- Netanyahu blasts Iran nuclear deal as ‘bad mistake of historic proportions
- VIDEO: Obama: ‘Iran nuclear deal built on verification, not trust’
- Israeli PM targets Iranians on Twitter with new Farsi account
- VIDEO: Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement on the #IranDeal
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