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The sort of time limit that iran can prevaricate on the ground with those weapons inspectors very limited before it would be escalated right back to u.n. security council, carol. >> i want to ask you about this we keep hearing from critics that this deal would actually pave the way to a nuclear iran. the president brought up something interesting that i had not heard before, perhaps you have. he said that iran currently has a stockpile that could produce up to ten nuclear weapons. he says under this deal that stockpile would be reduced to a fraction of what would be required for a single weapo...

Throughout, mr. ambassador, the iranians needed this more than we needed it. is that still your belief? >> it is still my belief. the sanctions that were universal in iran were choking their economy. >> the plutonium program in a deep freeze for the next ten years. as jim walsh said on your show just a minute ago, they're only going to have 300 kilograms of uranium, not even weapons grade. they're not going to have a path to a nuclear weapon. shep, i think what members of congress have to keep in mind as well as the american public what's the alternative? if we had walked away from this deal, ...

It's hard to do and you need a lot of raw material. it's hard to enrich uranium all the way to up weapons grade. all the way up to 90% plus. it's hard to do, but it's not that hard to do. and the nation of iran has been enriching uranium to 20% enrichment for quite a while now. in the new deal, the new framework of a deal announced with iran today, iran says they will stop enriching uranium to 20%. they are agreeing they are hereby agreeing that they will not enrich uranium above 3.67% for at least the next 15 years. because they have been enriching uranium for a while. they have a big stockpi...

You know the -- i heard today the under-secretary of state from ron's own administration nick burns on television talking about what a step forward this was, how obama's played the cards just right, that we were able to do what the bush administration couldn't, was to bring the iranians to the table, and no one, no serious person would suggest that they're not giving anything up in this deal. it completely -- it degrades by two-thirds -- it eliminates by two-thirds the number of centrifuges, it degrades the nuclear material they're producing to far less than weapons grade. it has the most intr...

Or something to save face. what we see today is this frame is very specific. eastern would only be allowed to enrich uranium at one site. the site would be converted for research purposes while the heavy reactor at iraq would be modified to protect weapons grade material there all at iran's nuclear facilities would be subject to independent regular inspections by the international atomic energy agency. iran accepted potential limits on its nuclear enrichment over the next 15 years, agreeing to reduce its installed century new jerseys from about two-thirds 19,000 down i should say to 6,000 and ...