Kuwait emir hopes permanent Iranian nuclear deal ends tension in region

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah voiced the GCC countries' comfort for preliminary nuclear agreement that was hammered out by Iran and the P5+1 group. "The GCC countries expressed their comfort for the preliminary Geneva Agreement concerning Iranian nuclear program," His Highness the Amir said at the opening session of the 34th summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council states. Iran and the P5+1 group - the five permanent UN Security Council (UNSC) members plus Germany - have reached the preliminary agreement in Geneva recently, a deal that drew welcome from around the globe. His Highness the Amir hoped the agreement would lead to a permanent deal that would distance the region from tension. The Geneva agreement limits the level of uranium enrichment in Iran to five percent purity and allow inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to visit the nuclear facilities in Iran, as well as banning the installing of new new centrifuges by the Islamic Republic. Iran will be able to use only the roughly 8,000 which are currently being used for enrichment, while the other 8,000 that have been installed but are not being fed with uranium hexafluoride would have to be left inoperable.