Foreign Minister Mohammad JavadZarif and his accompanying negotiating team were given a hero’s welcome upon arrival from Geneva said on November 24.

Zarif said Iran is ready to begin talks for a final resolution with world powers on its nuclear program as of next day, Mehr News Agency reported.

He was speaking after crowds in Tehran cheered the negotiators on Sunday evening on their arrival at Mehrabad airport from Geneva.

“We are prepared to begin negotiations for a final resolution as of tomorrow,” he said at the airport.

Zarif said his country would begin implementing the nuclear agreement struck with world powers in the next few weeks, as hundreds of supporters welcomed him and his negotiating team home.

The foreign minister said Iran was prepared to take the necessary steps to keep the deal on track.

Many Iranians expressed joy at the biggest breakthrough in a decade-old standoff.

Crowds hailed Zarif as a hero and an ‘ambassador of peace’ while holding flags and flowers. “No war, no sanctions, no insults and no submission,” they chanted.

Some held aloft posters of President Hassan Rouhani, the architect of Iran’s initiative in striking the nuclear deal.

“In the coming weeks – by the end of the Christian year – we will begin the program for the first phase,” Zarif said in a live interview at the airport.

A raft of illegal sanctions has been imposed on Iran in recent years, by the UN, the US and the European Union over its absolutely peaceful nuclear program, which is under the supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency.