(VOVworld) - President Obama said Sunday that the US, the region, and the world will be safer thanks to the recent nuclear deal with Iran. Saturday, January 16th, marked a milestone in preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, Obama said, adding that what is most important is that the historic result was achieved through diplomacy. He noted that there remain differences between the US and Iran that the nuclear deal does not erase. The US will continue its sanctions against Iran’s ballistic missile system.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister; Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency; and Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, at the meeting in Vienna on January 17. (Photo: EPA)

On Saturday, the European Union said it will lift economic bans on Iran following a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency which said Iran has honored the nuclear deal reached last July with the P5+1.