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When he was leaving new york. take us behind the scenes among secretary kerry and his aides are they confident the new government any ran is capable of making major concessions as far as the nuclear program is concerned? >> they are. and what they have been saying leading up to the talks they are going into this with their eyes open. they have to have it proven to them that iran is going to make these deals. including the iraq heavy water facility, which is a plutonium facility, one step below weapons grade. no recognition, according to a senior administration official of a formal right to enr...

And it's something that held up these negotiations for some time. they had to really struggle with the wording that would make both sides happy. it ended up in the situation which is that the agreement doesn't specifically formally recognize iran's right to kpigs. and a couple of sites in the country to the level of five percent. so enough to produce now collar fuel, but not enough to produce weapons-grade enriched uranium. >> what's interesting is that i watched the shaking of hands and the hugs and the congratulations, it's only a six-month deal. in other words, this is a temporary solution....

I think there is also the concern that so much uranium has been enriched to date, it won't be that difficult to use a covert facility to enrich it to weapons-grade. patti ann: well iran's supreme leader, meanwhile, ayatollah alico men any said quote, israeli officials can not be called humans. they are like animals, some of them. what kind of impact does it have on the diplomatic process going on? >> there was a lot of extreme and viciously evil rhetoric by khomeni. this only shows far the iranians are prepared to go. they were on the verge of what netanyahu called the deal of the century two ...

Circle how he can keep it alive for the next step. >> let's talk about the next step, jim. despite those hawks, there is an open door of sorts here that they want to explore further. how far apart are they? and will the next round perhaps close that gap? >> it doesn't seem like they were that far apart. that's why we had this excitement over the weekend up till the 11th hour on saturday when diplomats in geneva seemed to be indicating they were close to something here. the disagreements, where do he this come down to? one of the biggest iran's right to enrichment. it's understood they agreed o...

Gregory, they are not giving away the store from his perspective. there are a number of issues. first of all, there's new plutonium reactor in arak, plutonium would be another path. there's iran's refusal to give up enriched uranium. supposedly bring down that that has been enriched close to weapons grade. other critics quickly break out, bump up very quickly. >> the israelis and arabs, funny to say that together, israelis and arabs agree they should adhere to u.n., complete suspension of enrichment. they are not going to get that. a lot is theatrics designed to put pressure on. one of the thi...