That they developed more easily to their allies but they will be able to import from russia and china the technology they need for icbms or surface to air weapons and so forth. Ambassador burns. There is no question the iranians were trying to split the p5 in the last week of the negotiations with this proposal. Point one. There is no way we could have accepted this, so i was trying to dive through the details coming over here, if we can maintain the u. N. Weapons and embargoes for five to eight years, thats good for the United States. Hold on, five to eight years they in ten years they are going to have the capability for undetectable breakout, ten years plus under this agreement. Why would we want to agree to five years lifting and eight years for the russian transference of that capability . Why would the United States sign off on such an agreement ambassador . I am not here of course to represent the administration i am just a private citizen. This is a painful tradeoff and i would
The United States and president obama have said we will use any weapon at our disposal to accomplish that. The route taken doesnt start there. The Bush Administration sought negotiations. That led to sanctions. The Obama Administration pushed stronger sanctions that really made a difference on the iranians. The Obama Administration came back with a negotiated agreement. This is among the most complex agreements any of us can hope to judge. It is filled with painful tradeoffs. There are risks to acting and risks to not acting. I agree that this will be one of the most consequential votes any of us will take. For diplomatic history you may have to go back to the league of nations in 1920 four when Congress Played such a role in whether we go forward or whether we dont go forward. I worked on iran policy for three years. I helped to sanction iran. I believe we have to contain the threat in the middle east, but i also believe president obamas policy is worth your support. Im going to suppo
Is the incremental additional money that theyve got to try to destabilize the region or send to their proxies, is that more important than preventing iran from getting a Nuclear Weapon . No. So i think again, this is a matter of us making a determination of what is our priority. The other problem with the argument that folks have been making about, oh, this is a windfall and suddenly iran is flushed with cash, and theyre going to take over the world. And i say that not tongueincheek, because if you look at some of the statements by some of our critics, you would think that iran is, in fact, going to take over the world as a consequence of this deal which i think would be news to the iranians. That argument is also premised on the notion that if there is no deal, if Congress Votes down this deal, that were able to keep sanctions in place with the same vigor and effectiveness as we have right now. And that, i can promise you, is not true. That is absolutely not true. I want to repeat wer
The deal we have negotiated achieves that goal. It make sure that iran does not get a Nuclear Weapon we have always recognized that even if iran does not get a Nuclear Weapon it still poses challenges to our interest and our values in the region and around the world. When this deal gets implemented, we know that we will have dismantled the immediate concerns around Irans Nuclear program. We will have brought the stockpile down to 98 . We will have reduce the number of centrifuges they operate. We will have installed an unprecedented inspections regime. That will remain in place not just for 10 years, but for the stockpile 15 years. Iran will have pledged to the International Community that it will not develop a Nuclear Weapon that will be subject to Additional Protocols. We will have disabled a facility like iraq the iraq facility from allowing iran to develop plutonium they could be used for a bomb. We will have greatly reduced the stockpile of uranium that is enriched, and we will ha
He served at the Pacific Northwest national laboratory. He received his phd and was awarded the distinguished service award. Im going to have tom shea, and talk a little bit about the paper and then i will introduce or other speakers. Dr. Shea is there anyone here the new agreement . I will start off with shame on you, and get to it. Having just produce the document, was only yesterday . The article i have been working on is in a state of now trying to cope with the reality of the specifics of the final agreements. Starting off, 25 years ago the iaea system was overhauled after it was discovered that there were clandestine Nuclear Weapons programs in iraq and north korea. In effect, they compelled the International Community to overhaul that system and make it relevant to the threats of today. The efforts that took place, the technologies that have been applied, the authorities that have been given, all of those things have essentially been reinvented since 1990. Today, with the joint