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Slow, hard progress it meantime, opposition is real in the middle east and here in congress. Will we achieve a deal, and what are the implications of success or failure . Joining me now from washington is Suzanne Maloney with the brookings institution, and from cambridge massachusetts, gary samore the executive director for research at Belfer Center at the school. I am pleased to have them both on this program. Welcome. Let me start with the question of the latest pickup pickup hickup, in one issue that has become very prominent is the question of the removal of this u. N. Arms in bargo embarg...

World leaders meeting in the austrian capital are finalizing a deal with iran. We are expecting a joint statement from irans foreign minister and eu counterpart in a few hours time. Lets get more from james bay. What are we expecting to happen later this morning . Reporter well, we are hours away from a historic announcement here in vienna. It seems to me like this is now pretty much a done deal. I want to be careful because we have had so much drama throughout this process and there could be a lastminute hitch. But i think that it is almost done and they are ready to have a formal ceremony of...

The iaea. The Administration Says this is standard procedure. There are confidential agreements reached between the iaea and countries, its standard procedure, but senator cotton said who has seen it . Has anyone on your team seen it . And basically the administration had to say we have not had access to this yet, but that is typical for this situation. Senator cotton says he wants the u. S. Congress to see a it wheren text. Paul thats very unlikely because thats how things are done but you are getting at one of the arguments that republicans will used to push against the broader negotiated de...

So i wanted to also ask about this idea, weve heard a lot about sanctions. And sanctions as i understand, iran has written the United Nations on july 20th about the sanctions regime. And one of the issues that has concerned me about this agreement is that once the sanctions, the long list of mainly congressally mandated sanctions that will be lifted under this agreement are undertaken if iran for example, engaged in terrorist activity, which is known to do, separate from the Nuclear Program, iran seems to have taken the position in its letter to the u. N. And ive actually read the agreement, a...

Acknowledging the costs and consequences if we had to take a course of action. Secretary carter speaking now just very generally and not specifically, the two things that make it the successful implementation and agreement preferable from that point of view to a strike is the effects of a strike are temporary. And secondly, iran would, as i said earlier, respond to an American Military strike upon iran and one needs to a through what the set when steps are including the possibility that iran, at that point, would become irreconcilably committed to getting a Nuclear Weapon. I say that is predic...