BREAKING NEWS IRAN DEAL REACHED UPDATED 3:40 AM EDT

Deal confirmed.  See Guardian's live blogging for details of confirmation. Presser later today.   

3:40 AM EDT UPDATE

Iran Nuclear Deal Is Reached After Long Negotiations
By DAVID E. SANGER and MICHAEL R. GORDON
JULY 14, 2015
The New York Times

VIENNA — Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States have agreed to a historic accord to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions against Iran, a senior Western diplomat involved in the negotiations said on Tuesday.

The deal culminates 20 months of negotiations on a deal that President Obama had long sought as the biggest diplomatic achievement of his presidency.

A formal announcement of the agreement was expected later on Tuesday, when foreign ministers from Iran and the six nations it has been negotiating with will meet at a United Nations complex here in Vienna. Catherine Ray, a spokeswoman for the European Union, said a final plenary meeting of the six nations — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States — will take place at 10:30 a.m. in Vienna, followed by a news conference, but she provided no further details.

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