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When he was leaving new york. take us behind the scenes among secretary kerry and his aides are they confident the new government any ran is capable of making major concessions as far as the nuclear program is concerned? >> they are. and what they have been saying leading up to the talks they are going into this with their eyes open. they have to have it proven to them that iran is going to make these deals. including the iraq heavy water facility, which is a plutonium facility, one step below w...

And its something that held up these negotiations for some time. they had to really struggle with the wording that would make both sides happy. it ended up in the situation which is that the agreement doesnt specifically formally recognize irans right to kpigs. and a couple of sites in the country to the level of five percent. so enough to produce now collar fuel, but not enough to produce weapons-grade enriched uranium. >> whats interesting is that i watched the shaking of hands and the hugs an...

I think there is also the concern that so much uranium has been enriched to date, it wont be that difficult to use a covert facility to enrich it to weapons-grade. patti ann: well irans supreme leader, meanwhile, ayatollah alico men any said quote, israeli officials can not be called humans. they are like animals, some of them. what kind of impact does it have on the diplomatic process going on? >> there was a lot of extreme and viciously evil rhetoric by khomeni. this only shows far the iranian...

Circle how he can keep it alive for the next step. >> lets talk about the next step, jim. despite those hawks, there is an open door of sorts here that they want to explore further. how far apart are they? and will the next round perhaps close that gap? >> it doesnt seem like they were that far apart. thats why we had this excitement over the weekend up till the 11th hour on saturday when diplomats in geneva seemed to be indicating they were close to something here. the disagreements, where do h...

Gregory, they are not giving away the store from his perspective. there are a number of issues. first of all, theres new plutonium reactor in arak, plutonium would be another path. theres irans refusal to give up enriched uranium. supposedly bring down that that has been enriched close to weapons grade. other critics quickly break out, bump up very quickly. >> the israelis and arabs, funny to say that together, israelis and arabs agree they should adhere to u.n., complete suspension of enrichmen...

Wasnt imminent because they are sticking their necks out right to be there now as is secretary kerry. you get the sense there is real progress, momentum here but secretary kerry said there are gaps they have to bridge. >> what might a deal actually look like? >> weve got a pretty good sense. they are calling it an interim deal because any agreement would be in two phases. a first phase over six months and each side gives something up. the iranians wouldnt enrich uranium up to 20% and they would ...

They are calling it an interim deal because any agreement would be in two phases. a first phase over six months and each side gives something up. the iranians wouldnt enrich uranium up to 20% and they would also not activate the most advance center fuses that spin it into weapons grade and not open the iraq heavy water nuclear reactor, which is another path to a bomb, a plutonium reactor and keep sanctions in place, unfreezing some of irans assets overseas and get foreign exchange which they nee...

>> turkey and egypt will get on board with the same thing. >> turkey, egypt and whether youre going to see them, greg, in the middle east, the most unstable part of the world is going to have the worlds most lethal weapons. and as long as we get our oil from that part of the world, were going to be stuck with it. >> iran has so many centrifuges, and theyre spinning away. and its kind of hard to know where they all are. its kind of a shell game. and how far along they are in producing weapons-gra...

Weapons grade material to make an atomic bomb in as little as a month. national security correspondence is live from the pentagon taking a closer look at this report. why is this new report giving this time line? >> essentially its significant because it comes from one of the top u.s. nuclear website, a former iaea weapons center. he monitors irans nuclear program as closely as any non government group in this country. their conclusion released last week, iran could produce enough weapons grade ...

Southern israel. no injuries reported in either strike. the rocket fire comes one day before 26 prisoners were set to be freed as part of the u.s. brokered deal leading to the resumption of mideast peace talks. >> israel now sounding the alarm over this disturbing report claiming the regime is only one month away from having enough weapons grade uranium to fill the nuclear bomb. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. why is the new report so surprising, jennifer? had this not been expected? >...