The team of negotiators behind the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 – the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain plus Germany – are set to become contenders for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel Prizes in years ending with “5” – marking decades since the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – have often gone to campaigns against nuclear weapons. That could mean a prize for Iran’s promise to limit its nuclear program in return for a lifting of crippling economic sanctions. Under the deal, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations will be lifted in return for Iran agreeing to curb its nuclear program for ten years, which the West has suspected was aimed at creating a nuclear weapon. The secretive five-member Norwegian committee will announce the winner of the million-dollar-prize on the 7th of October.