Deals also among the tradition of american leadership. Its now more than 15 years since president kennedy said let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate. He was speaking to the need for discussion between united dates in the soviet union which could last for to restrict the Nuclear Weapons feared in those days the risk was a Catastrophic Nuclear war between two superpowers. The risk is Nuclear Weapons will spread to more and more countries particularly in the middle east, the most volatile region in our world. Today, because america negotiated from a position of strength in principle, they stop the spread of the weapons in the region. Because of this deal the International Community will be able to verify the Islamic Republic of iran will not develop a new air weapon. This deal midfebruary out of line when we achieve a framework earlier this spring. Every pathway to Nuclear Weapon is cut off an inspection and transparency regime necessary to verify the object is moby put in place. Because of the deal iran will not produce the highly enriched ukrainian weapons grade plutonium that formed the law material because of the deal iran will remove two thirds of its installed centrifuges to produce highly enriched uranium for a bomb and store them under constant international supervision. Iran will not use to this attribution is to produce enriched uranium for the next decade. And then well get rid of 90 of it stockpile of enriched uranium. Iran has a start though that can produce 10. The stockpile will be reduced to a fraction of what would be required for a single weapon. The stockpile limitation the last 15 years. Because of this deal iran will modify the core of its reactor cell that will not produce weapons grade plutonium and has agreed to shift the fuel from the reactor out of the country for the lifetime of the reactor for at least the next 15 years iran will not build any new heavy water there is. Because of the deal we will for the first time be in a position to verify all of these commitments. That means the deal is not built on trust. It is built on verification. Inspect 20 for seven access to a risky nuclear facilities. Iran will have access to the entire Nuclear Supply chain conversion facilities and centrifuge manufacturing and storage facilities. This ensures iran will not divert materials from known facilities to covert ones. Some of these measures will be in place for 25 years. Because of the deal inspectors full access in a suspicious location. The simply the organization responsible the iaea will have access for necessary when kerry appeared that arrangement at in the iaea has also reached the act designates complete investigation and the military dimension of iran has nuclear research. Finally iran is prohibited from pursuing a Nuclear Weapon under the Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty which provided the basis for the International Community efforts to apply pressure on iraq. Is there and take to implement the deal it will receive relief from sanctions in place because of Irans Nuclear program. Both americas own sanctions imposed by the security council. Iran must complete key nuclear steps before it gets to receive new sanctions relief and over the course of the next decade, iran must abide before sanctions are lifted including fighters for restrictions related to arms in eight years related to Ballistic Missiles. All of us will be memorialized in endorsing a new u. N. Security Council Resolution and if iran violates the deal all the sanctions will into place. Theres a clear incentive than real consequences for violation. That is the deal. It has the full backing of the International Community. Congress will now have an opportunity to review the details in my administration will provide extensive restraints on how thisll move forward. As the American People in Congress Review the deal will be important to consider the alternative. Consider what happens in a World Without the deal. Without this deal there is no scenario where the world joins us in sanctioning iran until it completely dismantled the nuclear program. Nothing we know about the arena government suggests it would capitulate under that pressure in the world would not support an effort to permanently sanction iran into submission. But the sanctions in place to get a diplomatic resolution and that is what we done. Without this deal thered be no agreedupon limitations for thereve been nuclear program. Iran could reduce operated customer centrifuges. Iran could build reactor capable of producing plutonium for bombs and we would not have any inspections that allow us to detect a covert Nuclear Weapons program. In other words no deal means no lasting constraints on Irans Nuclear program. Such a scenario would make it more likely other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own Nuclear Programs threatening Nuclear Arms Race in the most volatile region of the world. It would present the United States with fewer options from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon. Ive been president and commanderinchief for six years now. Time and again i face decisions about whether or not to use military force. The gravest decision any president has to make. Many times in multiple countries have decided to use force. I will never hesitate to do so when International Security interests. I strongly believe our National Security interests now depends upon preventing iran from obtaining Nuclear Weapons which means about a diplomatic resolution either i or a future u. S. President would face a decision about whether to allow iran to obtain a Nuclear Weapon or whether to use military to stop it. Put simply, no deal means a greater chance of more war in the middle east. Moreover, we give nothing up by testing whether the problem can be solved peacefully. If iran violates the deal the same options available today will be available to any u. S. President in the future and ive no doubt 10 or 15 years another person who holds this office will be in a far stronger position with iran further away from the weapon and with the inspections and transparency that allow us to monitor the uranium program. For this reason i believe would be responsible to walk away from this deal. But im such a tough issue is important the American People and representatives in congress get a full opportunity to review the deal. After all, details matter. Weve had the finest Nuclear Scientists in the world working through details and we are dealing with a country that has been a sworn id are scary of the United States for over 35 years. I welcome the robust debate in congress on this issue and i welcome scrutiny of the details of this movement. I will remind congress that you dont make deals like this with your friends. We negotiated arms control with the soviet union when the nation was committed to our destruction and those agreements ultimately made us safer. Im confident the deal will make the National Security interest of the United States and our allies. I will veto any legislation that prevents successful implementation of this deal. We do not have to accept an inevitable spiral into conflict. We certainly shouldnt seek it. Precisely because stakes are so high this is not the time for politics or posturing. Tough talk from washington does not solve problems. Hardnosed diplomacy, leadership that is united the world as a nation that doesnt mean the doesnt mean padilla will resolve resolve all of our differences with iran. We share concerns expressed by many friends in the middle east including israel and the gulf states about irans corporate terrorism in use of proxies to destabilize the region. That is why we are taking the steps because in iran would be far more destabilizing and far more dangerous to our friends into the world. Meanwhile, in the maintainer of sanctions for terrorism, Ballistic Missile program in human rights violations. We will continue her unprecedented efforts to strengthen security, efforts beyond what any of mr. Shinn has done before and will continue to work at camp david to elevate partnership with the gulf states to strengthen their capabilities to counter threats from iran a terrorist groups like isil. However i believe we must continue to test whether or not this region which has known so much suffering, so much bloodshed can move in a different direction. Time and again ive made clear to the iranian people that will always be open to engagement on the basis of mutual interest and mutual respect. Differences are real and the difficult history between our nations cannot be ignored. But it is possible to and rigid ideology a Foreign Policy based on threats to attack neighbors or eradicate israel a different path, one of tolerance for the peaceful resolution of conflict leads to more integration into the global economy, more engagement with the International Community and the ability of the arabian people to prosper and thrive. The deal offers an opportunity to move in a new direction. We have come a long way to reach this point. Decades of an Iranian Nuclear program many years of sanctions and many of intense negotiation. Today i want to thank the members of congress from both parties who helped us put in place the sanctions proven so effective as well as the other countries who joined us in the effort. I want to thank negotiating partners the United Kingdom france germany, russia china isolate the European Union for unity in the effort which showed the world can do remarkable things peacefully addressing topics. We showed we can do when we do not split apart. Finally i want to thank the american negotiating team. We had a team of experts working for several weeks including our secretary of energy and i want to particularly thank john kerry, secretary of state who began his service to this country more than four decades ago when they put on the uniform and went off to work. History shows that america must not leave not just that there might, but with their principles it shows we are stronger not what we are a blonde but when they the world together. Todays announcement marks one more chapter in pursuit of a safer and more helpful more hopeful world. Thank you. God bless you and god bless the United States of america. There is reaction to the nuclear deal of credit for members of congress is senator bob corker of tennessee who chairs the Senate ForeignRelations Committee said he wants to read the agreement detail and fully understand it but he says i begin from the place of deep skepticism that the deal made the goal of preventing iran from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon. Senator ben cardin Ranking Member of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee said its in americas National Security interest that iran is blocked from ever having a Nuclear Weapon. We go now live to nasa headquarters for the spacecraft sweeping past pluto today and is just getting under way. [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen pluto has never seen before. Three, two one. [cheers and applause] and now remarks from dr. John grenz spelled. Its been an incredible voyage. Many of you the last few days have been participating. What it all comes down to is an enormous team of people led by alan stern, Principal Investigator on the debate team at Johns Hopkins university applied physics Lab University of colorado, the list goes on and on. Hundreds of scientists engineers technicians people are selling blankets to prepare the wonderful intrepid explorer the first to visit pluto and fly beyond into the kuiper belt. True exploration. So glad youre here to participate in the period this disappeared. That view is just the first of many many rewards that the team will get especially since pluto didnt turn out to be a relatively featureless planet with nitrogen foggy atmosphere and we are scratching our heads thinking okay, what are we going to do with that. Pluto has turned out to be an extraordinary complex and interesting world. That was never a certainty, but now for the very first time we know that and went back for his First Impression i would like to turn it over to alan stern. [applause] well, i want to thank john for his remarks and thank nasa for making this all possible. How about that . [applause] 50 years ago today the United States is embarking at the beginning of an era of exploration of the solar system double of forever. 50 years ago the spacecraft flew by mars and i think its sitting on the 50th anniversary we complete the initial reconnaissance with the exploration of pluto. A big team of people worked 15 years to do this. They worked under the gun for time. They broke records for low cost outer planet exploration. They did some amazing feats and we saw one last weekend in terms of the Mission Operation rescue that produces images just like the one you saw him anymore raining for the ground beginning tomorrow. Stay tuned because her spacecraft is not in communication with the earth. Reprogram it to spend its time taken important data sets that can only take today. Over the next period of 12 or 13 hours the spacecraft will continue to take that data and transmit a message back to the earth for 20 minute at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time and which will find out how its doing, whether he survived the passage in the pluto system and hopefully it did and we are counting on that. Theres drama because it is true exploration. New horizons is flying into the unknown and tomorrow morning we should see the beginning of a 16 month data waterfall. You will see more and more about pluto beginning tomorrow. If we can put the image up which is now the best image that the resolution of four kilometers per pixel which is approximately 1000 times better than we could do with the biggest and baddest telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope 3 billion miles away at birth. Newparagraph instead of the image yesterday downlink to the ground. The image flew at the speed of light for four and half hours in the Nasa Deep Space Network transmitted here. The image was a him this morning. How about a round of applause for that dutiful planet. [applause] now i would like to invite her Mission Operations manager, alice bowman. Up to this stage. Dr. Bowman has been leading this from the time we wrote the proposal to ban this project all the way through development through launch and through the thick 3 billionmile journey across the solar planet. Alice. [applause] what an absolute honor it is to be here, to be standing here and waiting for those closest approach damages to come down. I cant say enough about how thankful i am that nasa is addressed to build and operate the applied physics laboratory. We have a large team and i just happen to be the Mission Operations manager but in no way am i taking credit for this incredible journey. It is definitely a team effort. We depend upon each other to each do our part to be the experts in a field. When i stand back as morning and i think, i have to pinch myself. Look what we accomplished. Its truly amazing that humankind can ask or this world and to see pluto being revealed just before our eyes is just fantastic. I cant wait until we get these images down starting early tomorrow morning and of course the signal tonight that tells us the spacecraft is healthy and has recorded the fantastic data. Thank you again very much. [applause] its been a great morning and obviously the story is not over yet new issue more about what will happen this evening. Before we open up for questions i want to talk to alan. We have video sent to happen this morning with the science team i believe. John and i were at the building here on the campus for the science team is working. Besides team assembled at 5 45 this evening to see the best image of pluto and react to it and have a scientific discussion. I think will give you a peek into it if we can . It up. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] a little behind the scenes look. Its not behind the scenes anymore. Youve seen it on the screen and its going far around the world on facebook and mr. Graham and every other social media as well. We are happy to be here to answer your questions as representatives of this big team and representatives of nasa. Congratulations. We will open up for questions. Social media, the numbers are astounding. The world, ladies and gentlemen are just totally excited. The story is not over yet. What will it do here is raise your hand. Well start with you, go to social media and get as many questions in as possible. Raise them high. Last time i stayed over here so let me start out with joe. Give your name and affiliation. Tell us about pluto