Berlin, Jun 8, IRNA -- US President Barack Obama said Monday there was a 'historic opportunity' for a comprehensive final nuclear accord with Iran.


Meeting the press at the end of the two-day G7 summit in the south German town of Elmau, Obama said the Iranian nuclear issue was on the agenda of the G7 leaders (the US, Germany, Britain, Canada, France, Italy and Japan) at their two-day meeting.


'We discussed the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and we remain united heading into the final stages of the talks. Iran has a historic opportunity to resolve the international community's concerns about its nuclear program and we agree that Iran needs to seize that opportunity,' the American president said.


Iran and six world powers (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany)


are currently engaged in intense negotiations in Vienna to hammer out a


comprehensive accord geared at ending the longstanding row over Tehran's


nuclear program.


Both sides reached a landmark nuclear framework agreement in the Swiss city of Lausanne on April 2.


By IRNA