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The sort of time limit that iran can prevaricate on the ground with those weapons inspectors very limited before it would be escalated right back to u.n. security council, carol. >> i want to ask you about this we keep hearing from critics that this deal would actually pave the way to a nuclear iran. the president brought up something interesting that i had not heard before, perhaps you have. he said that iran currently has a stockpile that could produce up to ten nuclear weapons. he says under ...

Throughout, mr. ambassador, the iranians needed this more than we needed it. is that still your belief? >> it is still my belief. the sanctions that were universal in iran were choking their economy. >> the plutonium program in a deep freeze for the next ten years. as jim walsh said on your show just a minute ago, theyre only going to have 300 kilograms of uranium, not even weapons grade. theyre not going to have a path to a nuclear weapon. shep, i think what members of congress have to keep in ...

Its hard to do and you need a lot of raw material. its hard to enrich uranium all the way to up weapons grade. all the way up to 90% plus. its hard to do, but its not that hard to do. and the nation of iran has been enriching uranium to 20% enrichment for quite a while now. in the new deal, the new framework of a deal announced with iran today, iran says they will stop enriching uranium to 20%. they are agreeing they are hereby agreeing that they will not enrich uranium above 3.67% for at least ...

You know the -- i heard today the under-secretary of state from rons own administration nick burns on television talking about what a step forward this was, how obamas played the cards just right, that we were able to do what the bush administration couldnt, was to bring the iranians to the table, and no one, no serious person would suggest that theyre not giving anything up in this deal. it completely -- it degrades by two-thirds -- it eliminates by two-thirds the number of centrifuges, it degr...

Or something to save face. what we see today is this frame is very specific. eastern would only be allowed to enrich uranium at one site. the site would be converted for research purposes while the heavy reactor at iraq would be modified to protect weapons grade material there all at irans nuclear facilities would be subject to independent regular inspections by the international atomic energy agency. iran accepted potential limits on its nuclear enrichment over the next 15 years, agreeing to re...

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...

Right now while were at the table? >> there is definitely enrichment going on. part of the hangup is that iran yaps want to research and development component to nuclear program with advanced centrifuges that could turn material into weapons grade material when a matter of months. you are talking about 60 plus centrifuges. iranians a capacity to go nuclear in terms of a bomb within a matter of months not a year the whole goal of negotiations a year and a half ago was to dismantle the iranian nuc...

There are fears if no deal is reached iran could secretly test a nuclear weapon. cnn is told there would be getting away with it. >> reporter: dire predictions if iran and the u.s. dont reach a nuclear deal. >> iran will immediately begin once again pursuing its nuclear program, accelerate its nuclear program without us having any insight into what its doing. >> reporter: the wisdom, they make weapons-grade fuel and then a weapons test. the doctor runs the agency that monitors testing. he says t...

Iran. iran has spent billions of dollars and a lot of technological efforts trying to enrich its uranium. the big concern in the international community has been that it could use that enriched uranium to create a nuclear device some kind, a nuclear weapon. so to prevent that, one of the strands of negotiation has been, look, take that nuclear material outside of -- outside of iran, make it safe as it were so it cannot be further enriched into weapons-grade material. turn it into nuclear fuel an...

Enriched uranium so that it is no longer suitable for weapons production or enriching further to weapons grade. so i think its probably a negotiating ploy. >> the side that doesnt want a deal cut with iran they say the voice of speaker john boehner, i will squeeze them with sanctions right away. what do you think would happen if there were harsher sanctions put on iran? >> i think that would be a investigation of the p5 plus 1 eastern ray groemt on the joint plan of action. so if i were iran, in...