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NPSGlobal Foundation, 10 Jan 2014.

Iran and the so-called P5+1 group of world powers have reached a tentative agreement on the final details of implementation of the interim agreement reached last November in Geneva, news reports said Friday.

Reuters news agency said the Iranian state television had confirmed the tentative agreement in talks in Geneva Friday between Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi and European Union Deputy Foreign Policy Chief Helga Schmid.

Schmid negotiated the agreement on behalf of the P5+1 group – the Permanent Members of the U.N. Security Council (China, France, Great Britain, Russia and the United States) and Germany - who have been pursuing the agreement to open negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program.

The reports said the terms of the agreement would be sent to the governments of all the countries involved for ratification, and only after that it would be put into practice.

Earlier reports said that the final details to be resolved included agreement on a specific question related to the enrichment of uranium.

The Associated Press reported that Tehran claimed that under the terms of the six-month interim agreement Iran would be able to continue to test experimental refinement technology, producing uranium with 20 percent enrichment while at the same time eliminating the same material once it was produced.

Under the terms of the agreement announced previously, Iran was required to neutralize its existing stock of uranium with 20 percent enrichment. Uranium with this level of enrichment can rapidly be enhanced to weapons-grade material with 90 percent enrichment.

The Associated Press said that the P5+1 group had resisted Iran’s intent to define the experimental enrichment process as a type of scientific investigation permitted under the terms of the agreement.

Meanwhile, Iran's supreme religious leader criticized the United States for persistent hostility towards Iran in relation to the nuclear talks, Reuter said.

"We had announced previously that on certain issues, if we feel it is expedient, we would negotiate with the Satan (the United States) to deter its evil," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in comments reported by the Islamic Republic News Agency. "The nuclear talks showed the enmity of America against Iran, Iranians, Islam and Muslims." At the same time, there were growing signs of opposition to ratification of the agreement in the U.S. Congress.

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