{"id":5290,"date":"2015-07-14T18:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2015-07-14T18:43:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:43:53","slug":"obama-rowhani-welcome-historic-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/obama-rowhani-welcome-historic-nuclear-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Rowhani welcome historic nuclear deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Obama.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5291\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Obama.jpeg\" alt=\"Obama\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>U.S. President Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rowhani welcomed Tuesday\u2019s historic agreement between Iran and major world powers that curbs the Islamic republic nuclear program in return for sanctions relief.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised address, Obama said the deal cut off \u201cevery pathway\u201d to an Iranian atomic weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, because America negotiated from a position of strength and principle, we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region,\u201d he said in an address from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Describing a \u201cdifficult history\u201d between Iran and the United States that \u201ccannot be ignored,\u201d Obama said the diplomatic victory also showed \u201cit is possible to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis deal offers an opportunity to move in a new direction. We should seize it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As Obama concluded his address \u2013 which was aired by Iranian state television \u2013 Rowhani began his statement on the diplomatic breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement would open a new chapter of cooperation with the outside world after years of sanctions, he said adding the \u201cwin-win\u201d result would gradually eliminate mutual mistrust.<\/p>\n<p>Iran would abide by its commitments under the agreement as long as world powers did, Rowhani, seen as a reformer, said.<\/p>\n<p>He asserted the accord protected gains made by Tehran in a nuclear program the West suspects is intended to develop an atomic weapon. Iran says the work is purely peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>Rowhani also urged neighboring countries to ignore what he called propaganda by Israel, saying Iran had a shared interest in the stability of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the agreement a \u201chistoric mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/obama-rowhani-welcome-historic-nuclear-deal\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rowhani welcomed Tuesday\u2019s historic agreement between Iran and major world powers that curbs the Islamic republic nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. In a televised address, Obama said the deal cut off \u201cevery pathway\u201d to an Iranian atomic weapon. \u201cToday, because America negotiated from a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5292,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}