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To make sure that they are able to get to that deadline without congress trying to intervene. so were waiting to hear from the president. this is highly unusual. he was expected to leave for louisville a couple of hours ago. were still waiting to hear when and where we hear from him. >> using the phrase agreement on framework for final agreement reached and john kerry tweeting perimeters to resolve major issues on nuclear program, back to work soon on a final deal. now were about to learn specif...

Foreign office and from zarif and secretary kerry via twitter about what they feel is a framework that has been designed. whether that means the u.s. and u.n. and other sanctions that are european country imposed are going to be lifted is a major sticking block for iran. but those are three different sets of perimeters that the iranian is trying to work against having lifted. will secretary kerry reveal whether or not u.s. sanctions have been lifted. we will learn. the big part is about the sanc...

Weapon will they limit iran to a year taking a full year before theyre able to do so. >> ann, one thing i want to pass along is weve just gotten word the president is going to be delivering a statement on iran coming up at 2:15. hes going to be doing so from the rose garden. we did not hear from secretary kerry during that event, where we heard from the eu and we heard from zarif. we do have extra tweets that have come out from secretary kerry. one that talked about the parameters to resolve maj...

At least from framework parameter of a deal as we move forward to the june 30th date? >> im getting feedback here. im thinking about the political changes in iran that led from ahmadinejad to rouhani. rouhani, i think, reflects the secular view of a lot of people, including zarif. we just heard from him at the podium. i think theres a different political reality going on in iran right now. this is going to be very good for that the fact the country is getting arent from the world community. they...

These changes, and we are hoping that with your support and the president of iran continue -- >> so weve been listening to foreign minister zarif take questions there, field them after the conference, the press conference they had to reveal the agreements from the talks that have been extended. the self-imposed date was march 31st. the big reveal were getting today is they have come up with the framework. hering from zarif there that the other deadline being the end of june june 30th so saying t...

But as foreign minister zarif and high representative mogherini announced moments ago, today we have reached a critical milestone in that quest. we are p5+1 eu partners and iran have arrived at a consensus on the key parameters of an arrangement that once implemented will give the international community confidence that irans nuclear program is and will remain exclusively peaceful. and over the coming weeks, with all of the conditions of the 2013 joint plan of action still in effect from this mo...

Would be an easing of these sanctions and a trust-but-verify and staggered-step setting with the international community involved. >> absolutely. the international would like to ease the sanctions as foreign minister zarif said. he expects sanctions all to be lifted by the 30th of june. now, thats also going to be a point of contention as we go ahead because as we know the united states and their partners see the sanctions as a leverage to keep iran in line. if they dont have that leverage, it c...

This process well all show that true dialogue and engagement with dignity we can, in fact resolve problems open new horizons, and move forward. thank you very much. >> hearing there engagement with dignity as the foreign minister zarif is taking questions. based on the fact that they have come out from the p5+1 over the nuclear negotiations. and lets go back. he continues to cake s tos to take questions, although he said he was going to wrap up. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: what ...

19 rounds of negotiations over 18 months. the amount of time and energy that secretary kerry has invested in this has been huge and now we are seeing members from the noerngs take to the podium there with foreign minister zarif on the right-hand side of your screen ayman mohyeldin joins me here on set. this is the big moment we have an indication through twitter diplomacy. >> take in mind this -- lets go ahead and listen in. they just started, forgive me. >> with the foreign minister zarif and a...

Getting to reveal a lot of the details of what went on behind the scenes while we wait to know exactly what has been agreed upon, how this framework will roll out. >> yeah i think thats right. i think that they thought that john kerry would come and make remarks and clearly there was a changing of the plan and now we have president obama. so i think the foreign minister zarif is sort of essentially filling time as it were. but hes been talking about a lot of as you talked about, the details. one...