Iran says nuclear deal will be implemented in early January

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi on Sunday said that the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the six Western powers will come into force in early January.

"God willing, this job (implementation of the nuclear deal) will be fulfilled in the midst of (the Iranian month) Dey (December 22-January 20) and before the end of this (Iranian) month," Takht Ravanchi told reporters in Tehran, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.