elp because there are parliamentary elections in iran beginning next year. >> indeed james and reminder to the viewers at the right of the screen this is zarif giving his endorsement of this deal and we understand essentially saying the same thing that the eu policy chief had said. we understand we may be hearing from him speaking in english in an it will little bit and if and when that does happen we will attempt to go to him and back to you james for a moment and let's talk a little bit more about the iran foreign minister's role in all of these negotiations and how significant of a player he has been in all of this. >> well he is this charming man and always smiling and 55 years old and also a cany diplomate and he was at the u.n. for a long time and knows about sanctions and knows how the

international system works and interestingly for a very top level iran diplomate he was educated in colorado at the university of colorado, that explains his excellent english and also explains why at various points some parts of the iran regime have been a little bit suspicious of him and told although he smiles a lot in the negotiating room he has been a pretty tough negotiator and tempers have been flared at various points and at one point there is a clash between him and the lady we just heard from and she said something about possibly pulling out from the deal because it wasn't going well and he replied allegedly never threaten and iran and he has been in diplomacy for a long time and when he left the american university and joined the republic of iran which the

revolution took place while he was in the united states early on according to diplomacy and involved very early on in negotiations to end the iran/iraq war and he was a young interpreter there but with the negotiations as a young interpreter he was the first iran to speak to iraqi and he was on the sidelines of the hostage negotiations, having meetings with the u.s. with the hostages and being held in beirut and thought it was helpful because u.s. and iran done talk directly and go back to the end of the taliban and afghanistan, guess who was iran's man floating around the conference and setting up with karzai, it has been zarif and has been around for a long time. >> he certainly has been a marathon negotiating process that has led us to this point

but it's hard to overstate as well just how significant this deal is going to be for iran economically given that it has been crippled by the western-led sanctions over the last few years. >> yes and you speak to experts and say iran has been crippled by those sanctions but iran was crippled. >> james sorry to interrupt you and live to the u.s. president giving his reaction. >> obtaining a nuclear weapon this deal demonstrates that american diplomacy can bring about real and meaningful change, change that makes our country and the world safer and more secure. this deal is also in line with a tradition of american leadership. it's now more than 50 years since president kennedy stood before the american people and said let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate. he was speaking then about the need for discussions between the

united states and the soviet union and restricted the spread of nuclear weapons and in those days the risk was a war between two super powers. in our time the risk is that nuclear weapons will spread to more and more countries particularly in the middle east the most volatile region in the world. today because america negotiated from a position of strength and principal we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region. because of this deal the international community will be able to verify the islamic republic of iran will not develop a nuclear weapon. this deal meets every single one of the bottom lines that we established when we achieved a framework earlier this spring. every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cutoff. and the inspection and transparency regime necessary to verify that objective will be put in place.

because of this deal iran will not produce the highly-enriched uran i um that formed the materials necessary for a nuclear bomb and because of this deal iran will remove two thirds of its installed center fuges, machines necessary to produce highly enrichedus raniun for a bomb and they will be under constant supervision and will not use center fuges for uranium for the next decade and get rid of 98% of its stockpile of en enriched uranium and they currently have a stockpile for ten nuclear weapons and it will be a fraction of what will be required for a single weapon. this stockpile limitation will last for 15 years. because of this deal iran will modify the core of its reactor in iraq so it will not produce

weapon's grade platunium and spend fuel out of the country for the lifetime of the reactor. for the next 15 years iran will not build any new heavy water reactors because of this deal we will for the first time be in a position to verify all of these commitments and that means this deal is not built on trust, it is built on verification inspectors will have 24/7 access to iran's key nuclear facilities and access to the nuclear supply chain and uranium and mills and conversion facility and center fuge storage and this ensures that iran will not be able to divert materials from known facilities to colvert ones and it will be in place for 25 years. because of this deal inspectors will also be able to access any

suspicious location. put simply the organization responsible for the inspections the iaea will have access where necessary when necessary, that arrangement is permanent and the iaea has also reached an agreement with iran to get access that it needs to complete its investigation into the possible military dimensions of iran's past nuclear research. finally iran is permanently prohinted from pursuing a nuclear weapon under the proliferation treaty which provided the basis for the international community efforts to apply pressure on iran. as iran takes steps to implement this deal it will receive relief from the sanctions that we put in place because of iran's nuclear program, both america's own sanctions and sanctions imposed by the united nations security council. this relief will be phased in. iran must complete key nuclear steps before it begins to

receive new sanctions relief and over the course of the next decade iran must abide by the deal before additional sanctions are lifted including five years for restrictions related to arms and eight years for restrictions related to ballistic missiles and all of this will be memorialized and endorsed in a new security and if they violate the deal all sanctions will snap back into place so there is a clear incentive for iran to follow through and there are very real consequences for a violation. that's the deal. it has the full backing of the international community. congress will now have an opportunity to review the details and my administration is ready to provide extensive briefings on how this will move forward. as the american people and congress review the deal it will be important to consider the

alternative, consider what happens in a world without this deal, without this deal there is no scenario where the world joins us in sanctioning iran until it completely dismantles its nuclear program and nothing we now about the iran government says it will capitulate under that kind of pressure and the world would not support an effort to permanently sanction iran into submission. we put sanctions in place to get a diplomatic resolution and that is what we have done. without this deal there would be no agreed-upon limitations for the iran nuclear program and iran can produce operate and test more and more center fuges and iran could fuel a reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb and no inspections to detect a culvert nuclear weapons program, in other words, no deal means no lasting constraints on iran's nuclear program. such a scenario would make it

more likely that other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs and threatening a race in the most volatile region of the world and also present the united states with fewer and less effective options to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. i've been president and commander and chief for over six years now time and again i faced decisions about whether or not to use military force. it's the gravest decision that any president has to make. many times and in multiple countries i have decided to use force and i will never hesitate to do so when it's in our national security interest. i strongly believe that our national security interest now depends on preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon which means that without a diplomatic resolution either i or a future

u.s. president would face a decision about whether or not to allow iran to obtain a nuclear weapon or whether to use our military to stop it. put simply no deal means a greater chance of more war in the middle east. more over we give nothing up by testing whether or not this program can be solved peacefully if in a worst case scenario iran violates the deal the same options that are available to me today will be available to any u.s. president in the future and i have no doubt that ten or 15 years from now the person who holds this office will be in a far stronger position with iran further away from a weapon and with the inspections and transparency that allow us to monitor the iran program. for this reason i believe it would be irresponsible to walk away from this deal. but on such a tough issue it is

important that the american people and their representatives in congress get a full opportunity to review the deal, after all the details matter and we've had some of the finest nuclear scientists in the world working through those details and we are dealing with a country, iran, that has been a sworn adversary of the united states for over 35 years so i welcome a robust debate in congress on this issue and i welcome scrutiny of the details of this agreement. but i will remind congress that you don't make deals like this with your friends. we negotiated arms controls with the united states union when that was committed to our destruction and those agreements also made us safer. i'm confident this will meet the security interests of the united states and allies so i will veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal.

we do not have to accept an inevitably spiral into conflict and we certainly shouldn't seek it and precisely because the stakes are so high this is not the time for politics or posturing. tough talk from washington does not solve problems hard-nosed diplomacy, leadership that had united the world's major powers offers a more effective way to verify that iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. now that doesn't mean this deal will resolve all of our differences with iran. we share the concerns expressed by many of our friends in the middle east including israel and the gulf states about iran's support for terrorism and use of proxies to destabilize the region. but that is precisely why whoa why we are taking this step because iran with a weapon would be far more destabilizing and far more dangerous to our friends and to the world.

meanwhile we will maintain our own sanctions related to iran support for terrorism, its ballistic missile program and human rights violations and we will continue our unprecedented efforts to strengthen israel's security and efforts that go beyond what any administration has done before and we will continue the work we began at camp david to elevate our partnership with the gulf states to strengthen their capabilities to encounter threats from iran or terrorist groups like i.s.i.l. however, i believe we must continue to test whether or not this region which has known so much suffering and so much blood shed can move in a different direction. time and again i have made clear to the iran people we will always be open to engagement on the basis of mutual interests and mutual respects. our differences are real and the difficult history between our nations cannot big near -- be

ignored but the ideology with threats to attack your neighbors or eradicate israel that is a dead end a different path one of tolerance and peaceful resolution of conflict leads to more integration into the global economy, more engagement with the international community and the ability of the iran people to prosper and thrive and this deal offers an opportunity to move in a new direction. we should seize it. we have come a long way to reach this point, decades of iran nuclear program, many years of sanctions and many months of intense negotiation, today i want to thank the members of congress from both parties who helped us put in place the sanctions that have proven so effective as well as the other countries that joined us in that effort i want to thank our

negotiating partners, the united kingdom and france and germany and france and china and the eu for unity in this effort that showed the world can be remarkable things when we share a vision of peacefully addressing conflicts. we showed what we can do when we do not split apart. and finally i want to thank the american negotiating team. we had a team of experts working for several weeks straight on this including secretary of engine ernie and i want to particularly thank john kerry our secretary of state who began his service to this country more than four decades ago when he put on our uniform and went off to war. he is now making this country safer through his commitment to strong principled american diplomacy. history shows that america must lead just not with our might but with our principals and shows we are stronger not when we are

alone but when we bring the world together. today's announcement marks one more chapter in this pursuit of a safer and more helpful, more hopeful world. thank you. god bless you and god bless the united states of america. good morning and welcome to al jazeera america, we have just heard president obama speaking about the historic deal just reached with iran and european negotiators, making sure that iran will not ever get a nuclear weapon president obama saying that no deal is a way to make sure there is a greater chance of war in the middle east that this is not a time for political posturing and joining me is my colleague morgan radford and looking at the key points that the president talked about a few minutes ago. >> and it has a snap back clause and that is something the

president, we heard him say there are rerepercussions and it will stay eight years and have the right to challenge a u.n. request to visit iran nuclear facilities and bans of cooperation will be lifted in all fields and includes in oil and gas and iran will retain the right to enrich someu ranium but not enough to make a nuclear weapon and we will go to lisa stark in washington and we heard the president say look this is not the type of deal that you make with your friend. so the question is this deal enough? is this what the administration was hoping for? >> well according to the president it is and he said it met all of his guidelines and said this deal is built on not on trust but on verification. he said that the inspectors of course from the u.n. agency and

international atomic agency would be able to inspect sites in iran when necessary and this is aimed more at congress because congress now starts taking a look at this deal to decide whether they are going to give it an up or down vote and the president said today look we will expect a robust debate in congress and among the american people and ready to go with the deal and he didn't say look what is going to happen if you turn down this deal and he said i will veto it but he also said it will increase the likelihood of war in the middle east so the president reaching out to congress today. >> thank you lisa sorry to interrupt you we want to go now to iran president rohani who is speaking about the historic deal. >> translator: converted to a political and international issue and this issue was in the

chapter 7 of the u.n. charter and was also sanctioned through or u.n. resolutions and this issue was also converted to iran phobia saying that iran is at the stage of developing mass destruction weapons from the other side from the developing. it was important for our country for the research and development and while this issue was

considered as a dignity for our nation and from an economic point of view is that that those sanctioned our country had developed critical situation and difficult situation as mentioned earlier sanctions are never successful however they had implications on the lives of ordinary people. i'm glad that today with 23 months negotiations of the islamic republic of iran with p

5 plus 1 we are able to arrive at a new point. >> we are going to listen to john kerry with credit of president obama leading the negotiations that resulted in the nuclear agreement with iran announced today that iran will not be able to get its hands on nuclear weapons, secretary kerry. >> good afternoon, everybody. i want to begin by thanking you as others have for your extraordinary patience. i know this has been a long couple of weeks for everybody including above all the press who have waited long hours during the day for very little news and we are very grateful for your patience. this is a historic day but for me it's a historic day because it represents the first time in six weeks i have worn a pair of

shoes. today in announcing a joint comprehensive plan of action the united states and p 5 plus 1 partners and iran have taken a measurable step away from the step of nuclear proliferation to a step away from the conflict and towards the possibility of peace. this moment has been a long time coming and we have worked very hard to get here. a resolution to this type of challenge never comes easily not when the stakes are so high not when the issues are so technical and not when each decision effects global and regional security so directly. the fact is that the agreement

we have reached fully implemented will bring in sight the nuclear program not for a small number of years but for the lifetime of that program. this is the good deal that we have sought. believe me had we been willing to settle for a lesser deal we would have finished this negotiation a long time ago but we were not, all of us not just the united states but france the united kingdom, germany, russia china and the eu were determined to get this right and so we have been patient and i believe our persistence has paid off. a few months ago in lazon we and international partners joined iran and announcing a series of perimeters to serve as the

contours those a potential deal and experts and commentators were, in fact, surprised by all that we had achieved at that point. after three more months of long days and late nights i'm pleased to tell you that we have stayed true to those contours and we have now finally carved in the details. i want to be very clear the perimeters that we announced in lozan not only remain intact and form the backbone of the agreement that we reached today but through the detail they have been amplified in ways that make this agreement even stronger. that includes the sizable reduction of iran's stockpile of enriched uranium and number of center fuges that it operates and it also guaranteed that iran's breakout time the time it would take for iran to speed

up its enrichment and produce enough material for just one nuclear weapon that time will increase to at least one year for a period of at least ten years years. and contrary to the assertions of some this agreement has no sunset. it doesn't terminate. it will be implemented in phases beginning within 90 days of the u.n. security council endorsing the deal and some of the provisions are in place for ten years, others for 15 years, others for 25 years and certain provisions including many of the transparency measures and prohibitions on nuclear work will stay in place permanently. but most importantly this agreement addresses iran's potential pathways to material

for a bomb exactly as we said it would, with appreciate limitations and transparency in order to assure the world of the peaceful nature of iran's nuclear program. now, let me explain exactly how it will accomplish that goal, to start the participants have agreed iran will not produce or acquire either highly enriched uranium or weapons grade plutonium for at least the next 15 years and iran declares a longer period of intent. iran's total stockpile of enriched uranium and today it's equivalent to 12000 kilograms of uf 6 will be capped at just 300 kilograms for the next 15 years and essential component of expanding our breakout time.

two thirds of iran center fuges will be removed from nuclear facilities along with infrastructure that supports them and once they are removed the center fuges will be and the infrastructure by the way will be locked away and under around the clock monitoring by the international atomic agency. the enrichment will be scaled down significantly, for the next 15 years no uran i um will be enriched beyond 3.67%. to put that in context, this is a level that is appropriate for civilian nuclear power and research but well below anything that can be used possibly for a weapon. for the next ten years iran has agreed to only use its first generation center fuges in order to enrich uranium and iran further agreed to disconnect all

of the advanced center fuges and those installed will be closely monitored r and d program and none will be used to produce enriched uranium. iran has also agreed to stop enriching uranium at the facility for the next 15 and it will not even use or store thissle material on the site during that time. instead it will be transformed into a nuclear physics and technology research center. it will be used for example, to produce isotopes for cancer treatment and it will be subject to daily inspection and it will have other nations working in unison with iran people in the technology ten center. so when this deal is implemented the two uranium paths iran has

to thissle material for a weapon will be closed off. the same is true for the plutonium path. we have agreed that iran's water reactor at iraq will be rebuilt based on a final design that the united states and international partners will approve so that it will only be used for peaceful purposes and iran will not build a new heavy water reactor or re reprocess fuel from its existing reactors for at least 15 years. but this agreement is not only about what happens to iran's declared facilities. the deal we have reached also gives us the greatest assurance we have had that iran will not pursue a weapon covertly. not only will inspectors be able to access iran's declared facilities daily but they will also have access to the entire