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                    Iranian Parliament Approves Nuclear Deal

   by VOA News

   Iran's parliament passed a bill Tuesday approving the country's nuclear
   deal with a group of six world powers.

   The state-run IRNA news agency said lawmakers voted 161 for and 59
   against the bill with 13 abstaining.

   The U.S. Congress completed its own review period of the deal a month
   ago with Democrats blocking a Republican effort to vote against it.

   Iran and the group that includes the United States, Britain, China,
   France, Russia and Germany reached the agreement in July after
   long-running negotiations that had to be extended past multiple
   deadlines.  Under the deal, Iran will limit its nuclear program in
   exchange for relief from sanctions that have badly hurt the country's
   economy in recent years.

   The negotiations were conducted to address allegations that Iran was
   working to develop nuclear weapons.  Iran has long denied those
   charges, insisting its program is for peaceful purposes such as medical
   research and generating power.

   The big looming next step for the deal to go forward is a report from
   the International Atomic Energy Agency on its more than decade-old
   investigation into possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear
   activity.  IAEA chief Yukiya Amano is due to deliver his report by
   December 15.

   The IAEA is in charge of monitoring whether Iran lives up to its part
   of the international nuclear deal, and only after it says Iran is
   complying will any sanctions begin to be lifted.
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