The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has said it is following up with interest a nuclear deal reached between Iran and world powers on Tuesday.

"The ministry will be studying the items of the deal immediately after obtaining a full text of it to evaluate accurately its content," its spokesman Badr Abdel Aaty said.

The spokesman voiced hope that the deal would be comprehensive, prevent the armament race in the Middle East, and free the whole region from the weapons of mass destruction, in a way that lead to achieving stability and security in the region.