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Was it kept the sanctions in place but temporarily suspended some of them. and if you look at the joint plan of action which is sort of the current deal that has been on the table leading up to this framework agreement that has the same sort of structure where all the sanctions that might be eased can remain on the books but be reactivated as a moment's notice. part of the reason they do that is to sort of keep a sword hanging over the other party and keep the pressure on. so the snap back is for real. we've done it in the past and it's been a pretty effective deterrent against cheating. jenna...

Enriching uranium at a higher level, they get thrown out of country. they -- it falls apart. let me just add a couple things much on page two of the deal, they talk about inspections and transparency. answered goes through five or six, maybe seven things that iran has to do in order to meet their end of the agreement. the iaea will have regular access to all of iran's nuclear facilities and then if you just add this line, that we know of, and you go inspectors will have access to the supply chain, that we know of. inspect letters have access to uranium mines that we know of. the problem is wit...

And u.s. sanctions that have been posted. it because of its natural program. want the sanctions lifted as soon as possible. the united states has to sell this deal to a very skeptical congress. he doesn't want to seem to be rewarding iran too soon. wants the pace of sanction relief to be slower. there are other outstanding issues. one of the issues russia is hard on is the issue of a snap-back if iran does not comply with obligations in any deal. one of the things the united states and other western countries are arguing for is that u.n. sanctions wig triggered automatically and placed back on...

To congress to prevent them from imposing sanctions on iran. >> are the sticking points still the same where you're talking about how quickly sanctions would snap back into effect if iran were to violate the agreement and also the later years of this 15-year agreement, the nuclear activities that iran would be able to participate in? is it all the same at this point what they're hammering out? >> reporter: that remains the big -- those are the big sticking points. how iran could resume its nuclear advanced technology. but also the snapback of those sanction. it's not only iran that doesn't wou...

Flexibility to put them back in place, calling it a snap-back if iran violates the deal. secretary kerry saidgoer negotiators will be working throughout the day. if there's no deal congress is threatening to impose sanctions against iran. and that would scuttle any changeses author a comprehensive deal in june. >> you've laid out the stakes perfectly. we want to talk more about it let's bring in peter beinart, our cnn political commentator and contributing editor with "atlantic" media and hilary mann leverett who is the co-author of "going to tehran" hilary i want to start you with about the r...