Washington, UNITED STATES
Ackermann, Dore, Cui Tiankai, Westmacott and Kislyak applaud as U.S. President Barack Obama takes the...
Germany's Charge d’Affaires Philipp Ackermann (from L-2nd R), France's Charge d’Affaires Frederic Dore, China's Ambassador Cui Tiankai, U.K. Ambassador Peter Westmacott and Russia's Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, all representing P5+1 countries, applaud as U.S. President Barack Obama takes the stage to deliver remarks on a nuclear deal with Iran at American University in Washington August 5, 2015. President Barack Obama defended the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday against a furious lobbying effort by political opponents and Israel and said abandoning the agreement would open up the prospect of war. Obama called the agreement, involving the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and Iran following unprecedented international sanctions was "the strongest non-proliferation agreement ever negotiated." REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst