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TEHRAN: secretary of state Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that Iran has been negotiating a 25-year accord with China whose terms are going to be announced once a deal is struck.

“With confidence and conviction, we are negotiating a 25-year strategic accord with China,” Iran’s top trading partner, he told a stormy session of parliament.

China is additionally a key marketplace for Iranian crude exports, which however are dampened by US sanctions imposed after Washington’s 2018 withdrawal from a nuclear effect Tehran.

An accord with China has been a hot topic on Iranian social media since populist ex-president Mahmud Ahmadinejad last month denounced negotiations underway with a far off country.

But Zarif, who came under attack over the 2015 nuclear accord which Iranian conservatives had opposed, insisted there was “nothing secret” about the China deal.

The nation would be told “when an accord has been concluded”, he said, adding it had already been made public in January 2016 when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Tehran.