The IAEA has confirmed the news of agreement with Iran, which was announced by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have agreed on a road map to resolve Iran’s nuclear issue, Rouhani announced Tuesday.

“Just now, Iran and the IAEA agree to accelerate cooperation with aim to fully resolve all prior issues,” Rouhani tweeted from his official account (@HassanRouhani).

The IAEA confirmed the agreement with Iran. “IAEA & Iran signed today a ‘Road-map for clarification of past & present outstanding issues regarding Iran’s #nuclear program’,” the IAEA tweeted from its official account (@iaeaorg).

Both Twitter accounts also posted pictures from the official signing ceremony held in the Austrian city of Vienna.

Yukiya Amano, director-general IAEA, also addressed a press conference in front of the hotel where the nuclear talks are being held. “This is a significant step forward,” Amano said.

He said that the IAEA and Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, signed the “Roadmap to Clarify the Outstanding Past and Present issues” in Iran’s nuclear program.

He added that a final assessment about possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear activities would be completed by Dec. 15, 2015.

He also clarified that the IAEA had made a separate agreement with Iran over the country’s Parchin military site.

According to Iran’s news agency IRNA, the director-general also said that the agreement was within the red lines specified by Iran.

On July 4, Amano said the IAEA may report on the potential military uses of Iran’s nuclear program by the end of 2015.

World powers suspect that Iran’s uranium enrichment and nuclear research programs should be monitored amid concerns Iran may weaponize its nuclear technology. Iran insists the program is solely for civilian use.

(Source: Middle East Monitor)