60 deals signed with foreigners after JCPOA: Industrial official

Mashad, Khorasan Razavi Prov, Nov 2, IRNA – Deputy minister of industry, mine and trade announced that 60 deals have been signed between Iran and the foreign countries after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in July, 2015. Half of those 60 deals on the fields of industry, mine and trade have been finalized, Ali Yazdani told IRNA Tuesday after a local meeting here in this northeastern Iranian province. Iran and the six world powers: US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany, reached a landmark nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA on July 15, 2015. 'Implementation Day' of the deal was announced in January, 2016, as the anti-Iran sanctions were lifted after Iran's peaceful nuclear program was verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). 1378/IRNA