US and Iran sign initial deal to end war, ease sanctions and open strait as nuclear talks continue. Follow live updates.
The United States and Iran have signed an interim deal aimed at ending the war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. However, questions remain over how further negotiations will go over the next 60 days on Iran’s nuclear program.
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A history of Iran’s nuclear program and tensions with the US as an interim deal is signed — 12:40 a.m.
By the Associated Press
1967 — Iran takes possession of the Tehran Research Reactor supplied by America under the “Atoms for Peace” program.
1979 — U.S. ally Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fatally ill, flees Iran as popular protests against him surge. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and the Islamic Revolution sweeps him to power. Students seize the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, beginning the 444-day hostage crisis. Iran’s nuclear program goes fallow under international pressure.
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August 2002 — Western intelligence services and an Iranian opposition group reveal Iran’s secret Natanz nuclear enrichment facility.
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