In other world news investigators in france now have that doomed jets second black box, the flight data recorder but perhaps even more revealing, maybe the data imbedded in the copilots ipad. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We have some breaking news in our world lead. With president obama just announcing a few minutes ago a landmark deal with iran that he says will limit that countrys Nuclear Ambitions to peaceful purposes by blocking every pathway to a nuclear bomb. As president and commander in chief, i have no greater responsibility than the security of the american people. And im convinced that if this framework leads to a final comprehensive deal it will make our country, our allies and our world safer. Secretary of state john kerry, who has been working on these negotiations for nearly two years, said the deal would reduce irans stockpile of low enriched uranium by 98 , cut its supply of centrifuges from 19,000 to just over 6,000, and allow rigorous inspections of Irans Nuclear facilities. In exchange in part the west will eliminate sanctions that have crippled the iranian economy. This deal of course has been the subject of intense speculation and criticism and debate many in congress have already vowed to block it. The president addressed that threat today, saying they should not carry that out. If Congress Kills this deal not based on expert analysis and without offering any reasonable alternative, then its the United States that will be blamed for the failure of diplomacy. Lets go to cnns jim sciutto at the state department. He has covered iran for years, visited ten times. Jim, what happens now . This is just a framework for a deal. Reporter it is. You still have details to work out, for instance the exact timeline on lifting of sanctions. Thats the wests key leverage. Thats the real carrot to the iranians. You have the legislative hurdles you mentioned. There are two bills teed up on the hill to impose new sanctions on iran and you already have some gop voices coming out criticizing the deal. But ive got to tell you, when you think of where these two countries were just two years ago, they hadnt talked to each other officially in nearly four decades. It started with the secret talks and the handshake in new york between president obama and the iranian president , then you launched into these talks and after 18 months of difficult talks, it became almost normal boring to have u. S. And iranian diplomats talking to each other. So to get to this point after that deep and troubled history is pretty remarkable in that time frame. The president of iran was elected in part because he promised to attempt at least a new relation with the west. What has the reaction been like in iran . Reporter i got to tell you, here in the u. S. A lot of americans may watch this look at this as sort of a dry diplomatic deal view it principally through the prism of Irans Nuclear program which is of course a big deal for the u. S. In iran though it is nothing short of ending or at least the prospect of ending International Isolation in every way. They cant buy cars for two, three times what they would be due to sanctions. You cant get chemotherapy medicines, et cetera so there is celebration today. One that caught my eye is a trending topic in iran selfies with obama. Because the obama comments were aired live on Iranian State tv. That is unprecedented. You had people taking pictures of themselves with him, putting up videos dancing and celebrating. This is a big, historic moment from the view of the iranian people sort of them being released in effect from international status. Its a big deal there. Jim sciutto, thank you so much. Of course we just heard from some republicans criticizing this deal. Republican senator tom cotton of arkansas one of the president s top critics on iran says in a statement there is no nuclear deal only a list of dangerous u. S. Concessions. Lets talk about this deal. The specifics of it with gary seymour, former top Nuclear Advisor for president obama, currently the executive director for research at the Belfour Center for science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of government at harvard. Also mr. Sam morgan is president of united against a nuclear iran. Thanks so much for being here. Sanctions. Lets talk about the stanksanctions when they will be relieved. The White House Fact Sheet says sanctions will be suspended after the iaea has verified that iran has taken all of its key Nuclear Related steps. What does that mean and how soon could the sanctions be lifted . Well of course its not clear what the key steps are. That remains to be defined. But presumably that means once the centrifuges have been removed and placed in storage under iaea monitoring once the low enriched uranium has been disposed of how it will be disposed of is not clarified. Once the main components for the heavy Water Research reactor have been destroyed. So all of these steps could easily take a matter of months. So its not going to happen quickly. But once iran has carried out all of those key steps to be defined, then all of the sanctions will be suspended. All of the Nuclear Related sanctions. Right. They still have sanctions when it comes to human rights abuses and other matters. The white house put out a fact sheet today. I would love to see the iranian governments fact sheet. In the White House Fact Sheet it says inspectors quote, will have regular access to all of Irans Nuclear facilities will have access to the supply chain that supports Irans Nuclear program to the Uranium Mines and mills. Is there anything iran did not agree to when it comes to inspections . Well interestingly, the government of iran did issue their own fact sheet and its in farsi. Im having it translated. I think one danger here is that we have issued our version of events. We have a fact sheet which represents what we think the details of the framework are. The iranians have issued their own separate fact sheet which represents the deals as they see it. And clearly there is room for disagreement and there are many precise details that havent been resolved. I think especially in the inspection area we dont have very much precise detail about the procedures. We know what the overall aspiration is and on paper, its a very significant system of inspection and monitoring. On american paper, we should point out, right . Pardon me . On american paper. Because we dont know what the iranian paper looks like. Yes. Exactly. So the u. S. Version of what was agreed looks very good on paper, in principle, but as always with inspections, the devil is really in the details. So theres a lot of work to be done between now and june 30th when the parties are supposed to complete a comprehensive agreement. We just got some reaction from israel the intelligence minister there says that iran quote, continues its path of conquest terrorism and says those who are celebrating today are disconnected from reality. We never expected the Israeli Government to support this deal. Obviously Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu who was reelected not long ago, has been a very vocal critic. Is there anything in this deal that israel might like . Well i think the way in which the heavy Water Research reactor is going to be reduced to a reactor that cant produce a significant amount of plutonium should be satisfactory to the israelis because its clear that the current reactor core is going to be destroyed or removed from the country. And thats a pretty substantial modification. So that it seems to me should make the israelis happy. The way that fordau will be converted to a facility not including any enrichment at least for 15 years, that should make the israelis somewhat happy but overall, i expect that Prime Minister netanyahu will reject this agreement and will try his very best to work with congress to try to overturn it. We should point out that some supporters of the Israeli Government advocates are pointing out that iran in presenting this deal to its people the iranian government is noting that a facility will continue to be able to enrich uranium. We have so much more to talk about about this deal over the coming days and weeks. Thank you so much for your expertise. Appreciate it. Thank you, jake. Happy to be here. In our National Lead an american dragged back to the United States after being arrested in pakistan just minutes ago, this american sat in a brooklyn courtroom accused of having ties to al qaeda and plotting to fight against american troops. This at the same time that federal prosecutors are announcing the arrests of two new york women who were allegedly planning to build a bomb and detonate it here in the United States. Women with alleged ties to al qaeda. Those breaking stories next. Big day . Ah, the usual. Moved some new cars. Hauled a bunch of steel. Kept the supermarket shelves stocked. Made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. Whats up for the next shift . Ah, nothing much. Just keeping the lights on. laugh nice. Doing the big things that move an economy. See you tomorrow, mac. See you tomorrow, sam. 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Our National Lead today, al qaeda appears firmly anchored right here in the United States. Just hours ago, Law Enforcement putting two new york women in shackles. The feds allege that the brooklynites were plotting to build a bomb and detonate it here in the United States. The criminal complaint says one of these women had close ties to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, aqap which is in yemen and still ranks atop the u. S. List terror groups with deadly aspirations to hit here at home and for good reason. Today, a u. S. Counter terrorism official tells cnn that the situation in yemen is dire and now federal Officials Say one of al qaedas top operatives the guy planning on how to export terror from yemen to the United States well it turns out hes an american citizen. I want to get right to cnn justice reporter evan perez. Evan who is this american al qaeda member how high up the terrorist food chain was he how long have u. S. Officials been trying to get him . Reporter well hes 29 years old, he was born in texas, but apparently grew up in jordan and in 2007 he was studying at the university of manitoba when he and a couple others decided to go to pakistan to try to fight and kill american troops over in afghanistan. What appears to have happened is that they instead became involved in training and helping provide Logistical Support for the training attracting more western recruits for al qaeda. They got on the fbis radar after 2009 when the fbi busted a plot to commit suicide bombings on the new york city subways. Zazi was arrested and apparently has been cooperating with the fbi since then. He is awaiting sentencing. What we now know is that this man was believed by at least some in the u. S. Intelligence agencies to be really high up in al qaeda, helping recruitment and perhaps even providing training of some of these recruits. There was some diversion, difference of opinion with some other parts of the u. S. Government. Some people wanted to put him on a kill list for u. S. Drones. In the end they did not do that but now he was captured in pakistan in the last few weeks and turned over to the fbi. He was brought here to brooklyn. He appeared before a judge today, did not enter a plea was just read the charges and now we expect that hes going to be talked to some more by the fbi to try to figure out exactly how much more he knows. Evan perez, thank you so much. Lets turn to that other terrorism related story in brooklyn new york. Jason carroll also outside the same courthouse where the fbi and nypd have been reporting on how they arrested these two women in brooklyn who officials allege wanted to build bombs to kill americans. Jason, you have had a look at the criminal complaint. What do we know about what these women were allegedly planning to do . Reporter well they are identified at noelle velentzas, 28 years old, a mother she has a young daughter in Elementary School and her roommate Asia Siddiqui 31 years old. Both of them lived in queens. They were roommates together. Both of them charged with conspiring to build a weapon of mass destruction. According to the criminal complaint, the two of these two gathered together and conspired to build an ied, improvised explosive device. They went to their local home depot several times in queens and gathered and got all their material together material including multiple propane gas tanks. They also had instructions on how to transform those gas tanks into explosive devices. Apparently one of the suspects became obsessed with Pressure Cooker bombs after the boston bombing, was looking into research into that as well. Both of them studying chemistry to try to carry out their plot. One of the questions seems to be who exactly they were going to target. According to this criminal complaint, regular people in other words, civilians was not something one of the suspects wanted to do. The reason why i say that is because at one point they were considering targeting the funeral of officer rafael ramos, the officer who was sitting in his car and was shot and killed. Thousands of officers showing up for that funeral and apparently there was some sort of discussion about why not target that. One of the suspects said how many regular people would be standing next to the officers not wanting to do that. We will try to get some more information as their First Court Appearance gets under way just a few minutes from now right here at federal court. Jason carroll, thank you. Lets bring in cnn Counter Terrorism analyst phil mudd. Lets start with the arrest of the alleged al qaeda commander responsible for allegedly plotting attacks here on american soil. Mohammad al faraq, went from the university of manitoba to pakistan ended up trying to train people to attack u. S. Troops. You remember this guy . This is from 2007. I was on detail from the cia and the fbi. We had three guys as your reporter mentioned going over to pakistan. If i were at the agency or the bureau today, this is news for celebration. Pretty simple reason why. If you look at a case like this i think most americans would say the significance of this case is that this guy, an american is going to come back home and conduct an attack. Instead you should look at him as a force multiplier. What we called at the business at the cia a facilitator. Hes not going to burn himself by coming back. Hes going to serve as the conduit or known in pakistan who understands the west how you travel how you stay out of the clutches of Law Enforcement and he also understands al qaeda in pakistan. Those people are really hard to come by. So this is a great catch not because he was a potential bomber but because he could have trained tens of bombers. Let me ask you about these two women arrested in new york city. The most recent case just the most recent one, people wanting to commit terror or join terror groups. People here in the United States, 30 such cases in the past 18 months. How many more do intelligence officials think are likely out there . If i were sitting at the table at the bureau im guessing youre looking at dozens of people like this maybe a few more. Remember we have had 100 plus go over just to join isis. Im not talking about somalia or nigeria or pakistan. The interesting contrast between the first case that fellow from pakistan the american citizen sent back to new york thats a quality problem. A high quality terrorist, ve