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Irans past efforts to weaponize this program will be addressed. >> reporter: it requires iran not to enrich uranium to weapons grade for 15 years. to reduce its number of operating nuclear centrifuges from 19,000 to just over 5,000, to increase the time it would take to make a bomb from a few months to a year and to convert its underground plutonium reactor to peaceful research. u.n. inspectors will have full access to all of irans nuclear facilities and iran gets relief from sanctions only if i...

Weapon. it would cause them to kick out all the inspectors currently there, which means would would have even less insilgt. >> >> and no doubt there are a lot of points in terms of this deal. i want to get your thoughts on irans mornforeign minister. the solutions are all good for all, as they stand. theres no need to spin using fact sheets so early on. i know because im lucky enough to be on the press distribution list, that the white house sent out fact sheets shortly after this deal was annou...

Jim sciutto reports on the key sticking points. >> reporter: with a deal in danger of disappearing, secretary of state john kerry and his fellow negotiators still searching for resolution in switzerland. the nuclear talks now stretching not only the definition of deadline but also of agreement with officials now hoping for a simple statement of goals rather than the hard commitments they originally intended. the white house placed the blame on iran -- >> while the talks have been productive, we ...

It is important to note that iran, to date has honored all commitments that it made under the joint ran of action that we agreed to in 2013. i ask you to think about that against the backdrop of those who predicted that it would fail and not get the job done. and in return for iraqs future cooperation, we and our international partners will provide relief in phases from the sanctions that have impacted irans economy. if we find at any point that iran is not complying with this agreement, the san...

See a vague statement of generalities political framework, principles that they agreed on but we really thought the heavy lifting would be left to those negotiations in june. i asked secretary kerry now that he has these commitments from iran what happens if iran -- if these long-term negotiations for a comprehensive deal in june tries to backtrack. take a listen. >> then they dont get an agreement. look were very clear about where they are. >> if they try to renegotiate, youll end -- >> weve gr...

Concerns that we have with iran. we know that iran is supporting terrorism around the world. we know that iran is fomenting instability in the middle east. we know that iran is making terrible threats against our closest ally israel in the middle east. we know that iran is actually detaining unjustly some american citizens inside of iran. those concerns still persist and they would not be resolved in the context of this agreement but heres the thing. this is precisely why it is so important for ...

Continue to have had the united international community that would have a wide range of options in front of us including putting in place additional sanctions to put more pressure on iran. and alex, this is an important part of what the presidents leadership made a reality. when the president took office youll recall iran was advancing towards a nuclear weapon. and the international community was fractured. and at a loss for trying to figure out how they were going to confront iran over this. be...

>> its just after 4:30 a.m. local time in switzerland, and secretary of state john kerry is still in negotiations trying to reach a political frame work for an agreement to contain irans nuclear program. among the issues in dispute is an agreement on what any statement announcing a frame work would include. the united states wants detailed commitments in writing to help the obama administration make the case for the deal to congress and the american people. as to the agreement itself one major u...

Have left. it is hard to tell at this point whether or when a framework for the deal will be reached. john kerry will remain in switzerland until at least thursday morning. the white house gave a vague update reiterating a willing nksness to walk away from the negotiations if necessary. >> we have not yet received the specific tangible commitments that the international community seeks. as long as we are in a position of convening serious talks that are making progress that we would not arbitrar...

Right. this will spill over into their church and theyll be forced to worship a certain way. >> those are two separate issues. making a cake for someone, even someones wedding, is not participating in that wedding that causes you to have to change your beliefs. churches will have the right to marry whomever they want to marry. thats not to say we wont have more of a conversation in the church about how to respond to this. thats an intrafamily conversation its not about government coercion. i do ...