India, June 13 -- By Reena Bhardwaj

Washington, DC [US], June 13 (ANI): A senior White House official on Friday (local time) said that a proposed agreement with Iran meets the core objectives set by the US President and could be signed in the coming days, though internal Iranian differences remain.

The official said the deal would "reopen the straits and lift the blockade", while also leading to the dismantling of Iran's nuclear programme and transfer of enriched material out of the country.

"What the deal does is actually quite simple. It accomplishes the core objectives that the President of the United States set out for this mission, and gets us in a very, very good place at the end of it. And what it does is, first, it reopens the ...