Eight Flags
EU foreign policy chief Frederica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are expected to formally annouce the deal during a news conference in Vienna.
The flags of Iran, the six world powers, and the EU are already up on the podium.
Zeinab Esmaeili, journalist at Iran's Shargh Daily: "Finally, the eight flags are side by side. In the Austrian Media Center waiting for the announcement of the deal."
More Israeli reax:
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Former Foreign Minister and Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Liberman said that a "black flag" hung over the agreement and it would be remembered as a "black day in history." "Agreements that ignore past experience endanger the future. The agreement with Iran will be remembered in history in the same line as the Munich agreement and the agreement with North Korea....the State of Israel must always make sure to defend itself and remember "if I am not for myself, who is?"
Netanyahu reacts:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced a nuclear agreement reached by Iran and major world powers as "a bad mistake of historic proportions."
"Iran is going to receive a sure path to nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said on July 14. “Many of the restrictions that were supposed to prevent it from getting there will be lifted."
"Iran will get a jackpot, a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars, which will enable it to continue to pursue its aggression and terror in the region and in the world," he added.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely called the deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief "a historic surrender by the West to the axis of evil headed by Iran."
Our correspondent in Vienna just sent the latest from the IAEA:
Pop The Champagne
It's time to pop the champagne. Or, Johnny Walker, as one Twitter user suggests despite an alcohol ban in the Islamic republic.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has vocally opposed a deal, swiftly denounced it as "a bad mistake of historic proportions."
"Iran is going to receive a sure path to nuclear weapons. Many of the restrictions that were supposed to prevent it from getting there will be lifted," Netanyahu said. "Iran will get a jackpot, a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars, which will enable it to continue to pursue its aggression and terror in the region and in the world."
#IranWinsPeace
A Iranian Twitter user:
"Hello, world
Goodbye sanctions
Iran's 12 nuclear dossier closed
Iran- P5+1 reach a deal"
West Surrenders
One Iranian Twitter user says "Western powers have surrendered to Iran."