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ByGeorgeJahnand Matthew Lee The Associated Press LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Capping exhausting and contentious talks, Iran and world powers sealed a break- throughagreementThursday outlining limits on Iran's nu- clearprogramtokeepitfrom being able to produce atomic weapons.TheIslamicRepub- lic was promised an end to years of crippling economic sanctions, but only if negoti- ators transform the plan into a comprehensive pact. They will try to do that in the next three months. The United States and Iran, long-time adversaries who hashed out much of the agreement, each hailed the efforts of their diplomats over days of sleepless nights in Switzerland. Speaking at the White House, President Barack Obama called it a "good deal" that would ad- dress concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Iranian Foreign Minister Moham- mad Javad Zarif called it a "win-win outcome." Those involved have spent 18 months in broader nego- tiations that were extended twice since an interim ac- cord was reached shortly af- ter Iranian President Hassan Rouhani entered office. That deal itself was the product of more than a year of secret negotiations between the Obama administration and Iran, a country the U.S. still considers the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. Opponents of the emerg- ing accord, including Israel and Republican leaders in Congress, reacted with skepticism. They criticized the outline for failing to do enough to curb Iran's po- tential to produce nuclear weapons or to mandate in- trusive enough inspections. Obama disagreed. "This framework would cut off every pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon," he de- clared. "This deal is not based on trust. It's based on unprecedented verification." If implemented, the un- derstandings reached Thursday would mark the first time in more than a decade of diplomatic ef- forts that Iran's nuclear ef- forts would be rolled back. It commits Tehran to sig- nificant cuts in centrifuges, the machines that can spin uranium gas to levels used in nuclear warheads. Of the nearly 20,000 centrifuges Iran now has installed or running at its main enrich- ment site, the country would be allowed to operate just over 5,000. Much of its en- riched stockpiles would be neutralized. A planned reac- tor would be reconstructed so it produced no weapons- grade plutonium. Monitor- ing and inspections by the U.N. nuclear agency would be enhanced. America's negotiating partners in Europe strongly backed the result. President Francois Hollande of France, whichhadpushedtheU.S.for a tougher stance, endorsed the accord while warning that "sanctions lifted can be re-established if the agree- ment is not applied." Obama sought to frame the deal as a salve that re- ducesthechancesofthecom- bustible Middle East becom- ing even more unstable with the introduction of a nuclear- armed Iran. Many fear that would spark an arms race thatcouldspiraloutofcontrol inaregionrifewithsectarian rivalry, terrorist threats and weak or failed states. Obama said he had spo- ken with Saudi Arabia's King Salman and that he'd invite him and other Arab leaders to Camp David this spring to discuss security strategy. The Sunni major- ity Saudis have made veiled threats about creating their own nuclear program to counter Shia-led Iran. The American leader also spoke by telephone with Is- raeli Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu, perhaps the sharpest critic of the diplomacy with Iran. The White House said Obama told Netanyahu that the agreement "in no way di- minishes our concerns with respect to Iran's spon- sorship of terrorism and threats towards Israel." A final agreement "must significantly roll back Iran's nuclear capabilities and stop its terrorism and ag- gression," Netanyahu said in Israel. NEGOTIATIONS Nuke deal: World powers, Iran reach crucial framework BRENDANSMIALOWSKI—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, center, Secretary of State John Kerry, center right and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz listen while Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif makes a statement at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday a er Iran nuclear program talks finished with extended sessions. By George Jahn The Associated Press LAUSANNE,SWITZERLAND Iranandsixworldpowers reached a preliminary nu- clear agreement Thursday outlining commitments by both sides as they work for a comprehensive deal aim- ing at curbing nuclear ac- tivities Tehran could use to make weapons and provid- ing sanctions relief for Iran. A look at the main points of the agreement released by the participating states at the talks — Iran, the United States, Russia, Brit- ain, France and Germany — to be implemented by June 30 as part of a comprehen- sive agreement: Enrichment Centrifuges can be used to enrich uranium to levels ranging from uses in en- ergy, medicine and science to weapons-grade used in nuclear warheads. Iran says it is enriching only for peaceful purposes and now has nearly 20,000 of the machines set up at Natanz, its main site, with almost 10,000 enriching. The June deal aims at restricting the number of centrifuges standing to 6,104, and those running to 5,060. All will be mainstay IR-1- models, Iran's present workhorse, which enriches at much lower rates that the more developed machines Tehran would like to install. Iran has committed to enriching uranium sub- stantially below weapons- grade and to reduce its en- riched uranium stockpile from about five tons to 300 kilograms (less than 700 pounds) for 15 years. BreakoutTime Experts assess Iran's cur- rent breakout time — the time it could enrich enough uranium for one weapon — at 2 to 3 months. That time- line will be extended to at least a year for at least 10 years, according to a fact sheet on the commitments, which does not detail how that will be accomplished beyond reducing uranium numbers and stockpiles. Underground enrichmentfacility The Fordo enrichment facility is dug deep into a mountainsideandisthought impervious to air attack — anoptionneithertheUnited States nor Israel has ruled outshoulddiplomaticefforts to contain Tehran's atomic assetsfail.Irancommitsnot to enrich uranium there for atleast15yearsandwillcon- vert the site into a nuclear physics and technology re- search center. It also commits Tehran not to do uranium enrich- ment-related research and development or store fis- sile material at Fordo for 15 years. Centrifuges will still run at Fordo — one Western of- ficial told The Associated Press that almost 1,000 of the machines will be spin- ning. But they will not en- rich uranium. Instead, the official said, they will pro- duce isotopes for medical, industrialandresearchuses. Transparency The U.N's International Atomic Energy Agency will monitor enrichment and former enrichment facili- ties and related assets using "the most up-to-date, mod- ern monitoring technolo- gies." It also agrees to im- plement an agreement with the IAEA giving the agency "much greater access and information regarding Iran's nuclear program, in- cluding both declared and (possible) undeclared facil- ities," than it has now. Tehran also commits to addressIAEAsuspicionsthat it worked in the past on nu- clear arms under terms still to be agreed on. 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