>> announcer: this is an nbc special report. here is savannah guthrie. >> good morning. as we come on the air the president is about to deliver a statement on this historic nuclear deal with iran overnight. this agreement is supposed to freeze that country's pursuit of a nuclear weapon . it could reshape the weapon between iran and the world. it's already meeting fierce criticism in many world capital capitals. andrea mitchell is in vienna covering the marathon talks. good morning. what can uhyou tell us about this deal? >> reporter: first of all, the deal will limit iran's nuclear prap forprogram for ten years and

research for 15. the sanctions won't be lifted until iran complies with the taking down of the nuclear program. there will be inspections but with notice of what they call managed in speculations. the international atomic energy has to certify iran complied and ten it gets hundreds of billions of sanctions released. john kerry was in the building behind me until 3:00 this morning going over the details himself. they met until 1:00 a.m. with the ministers. shortly before midnight he called the president to say it looked like they had a deal. there was a celebratory mood this morning with the ministers but they know the iranian foreign minister have a tough sell at home. there are hard liners and the president has taken iran in a different direction on the nuclear program in exchange for

sanctions release. there will be criticisms there. we don't know yet what the ayatollah khome frksni will say. john kerry will face a skeptical congress. now saying he wants the details. he's not sure he can support this. certainly the republicans led by bob corker the foreign relationser chair are skeptical indeed. >> i will have you stand by as we await remarks from the president from the white house. let's go to our senior white house correspondent chris jansing. let's pick up where andrea left off. this is a hard sell for the president if the congress. >> he'll spend about 15 minutes now beginning the sales job to congress to the american people and to the international community. he's already hearing the backlash from middle eastern countries and bennettjamin netanyahu netanyahu. this is a major victory.

no doubt about it. an affirmation of with a his central -- >> here is the president. >> -- two years of negotiations the united states together with international partners decades of animosity has not, a comprehensive long term deal with iran that will prevent it from 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 about the need for discussions between the united states and the soviet union which led to efforts to restrict the spread of nuclear weapons. in those days the are risk was a

war between super powers. in our time the concern is that nuclear weapons will spread to the middle east the most volatile region in our world. today, because america negotiated from a position of strength and principle, we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region. because of this deal the international community will be able to verify that the islamic republic of iran will not develop a nuclear weapon. this deal meets every single one of the bottom lines of the establisheded when we achieved a framework this spring. every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off. the inspection and transparency regime necessary to verify the objective will be put in place. because of this deal, iran will not the produce the highly enriched uranium and weapons

based plutonium that form the raw materials necessary for a nuclear bomb. because of this deal iran will re move two-thirds of the installed centrifuges, the machines necessary the to produce highly enriched uranium for a bomb and store them under constant international supervision. iran will not use its advanced centrifuges to produce enriched uranium for the next decade. iran will get rid of 98% of the stock pile of enriched europe. to -- uranium. iran currently has a stock pile that could produce up to ten nuclear weapons. that will be reduced to a fraction of what would be required for a single weapon. this limitation will last 15 a years. because of the deal the iran will modify the core of the reactor in iraq so it will not produce weapons-grade plutonium. it has agreed to ship spent fuel from are the reactor out of the

country for the lifetime of the reactor for at least 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. 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. iran will have access to iran's entire nuclear supply chain, uranium mines, mills, conversion facility and centrifuge manufacturing and storage facilities. this ensures that iran will not be able to divert material thes ss from known facilities to covert ones. these will be if place for 25 years. because of the deal inspectors will 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 an agreement with iran to get access it needs to complete its fwagsinvestigation into the past nuclear research. finally iran is permanently prohibited from purr uh suing a nuclear weapon under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty which provided the basis for the efforts to apply pressure are on iran. as iran takes steps to implement this deal it will receive relief from sanctions in place because of iran's nuclear program. both perk's own sanctions and sanctions from the united states security council. this will be phased in. iran must complete key nuclear steps before it begins to receive new sanctions re leaf. over the course of the next decade iran must abide by the

deal before additional sanctions are lifteded, including five years for restrictions related to arps and eight years for restrictions relateded to ballistic missiles. all of this will be memorialized and endorsed in a new united nations security council. and there is a clear incentive for iran to follow through. er there are real consequences for for a violation. that's the deal. it has the fullbacking of the international community. congress will have an opportunity now to review the details. my administration is ready to provide extensive briefings on how this will move forward the. as the he were 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 are the world

joins us in sanctioning iran until it completely dismantles its nuk already lar program. thothing we moe about the iranian government suggests it would capitulate under ta pressure and the world would not support permanently putting iran under submission. we wanted a diplomatic solution. that's what we have done. without the deal there would be no agreed upon limitations for the iranian nuclear program. iran could produce, operate and test more centrifuges. iran could fuel a reactor capable of creating plutonium for a bomb and we could not detect a covert 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 nations would feel compelled to pursue

their own nuclear programs threatening an arps race in the mostle volatile region of thor world. it would give the u.s. fewer options to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. i have been president and commander in chief for over six years now. time and again i have faced decisions about whether or not to use military force. the gravest decision any president has to make. many times, in multile pl countries, i have decided to use force. i will never hesitate to do so when it is in our national security interest. i believe our national security interest now depends upon preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon which means 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 to use our military to stop it. put simply to deal means a greaterer chance of more war in the middle east. we give up forthing by testing whether or not this problem can be solved peacefully. if in a worst case scenario iran violates the deal the same options available to me today will be available to any u.s. president in the future. i have no doubt that 10 or 15 years from now the person who holds this office will be in a far stronger position with iran further away prosecute a weapon and with the inspection s and transparency that allow us to monitor the iranian program. for this season 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. we have had some of the finest nuclear scientists in the world working through those details and we are dealing with a country, iran that's been a sworn adversary of the united stateser for over 35 years. so i welcome a robust debate if congress on this issue and scrutiny of the details of this agreement. i will remind congress tahat you don't make deals like this with your friends. we feg yated arms control with the soviet union when that nation was committed to our destruction and those agreements made us saferer. i am confident this deal will meet the national security interests of the united states and ourle al allies. i will veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal. we do not have to accept an inevitable spiral into conflict and we certainly shouldn't seek

it. precisely because the stakes are high this is not the time for politics or posturing. tough talk from washington does not solve problems. hard-nosed diplomacy, leadership that has united the world's major powers offers a more effective way to verify that iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. that doesn't mean this deal will resolve our differences with iran. we share the concerns expressed by our friends in the middle east including israel and the gulf states about iran's use of proxies to destabilize the region. that's precisely why we are taking this step. because an iran armed with a nuclear weapon would be more destabilizing and dangerous to our friends and the world. meanwhile, we will maintain our own sanctions related to iran's support for terrorism, its ballistic miss sill program and

human rights violations. we will continue our unprecedented efforts to strengthen israel's security. efforts that go beyond what any american administration has done before. we will continue the work we began at camp david to elevate our partnership with the gulf states to counter threats from groups like isil. i believe we must continue to test whether or not this region which has known so much suffering, so much bloodshed, can move in a different direction. time and again i have paedmade clear to the iranian people we will be open to discussions on engagement based on puch wall respect. our differences are real. the difficult history between our nations cannot be ignored. but it is possible to change. the path of violence and rigid

ideology a foreign policy based on threats to attack neighbors or eradicate israel that's 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 iranian people to prosper and thrive. this deal offers an opportunity to move thisin a new direction. we should seize it. we have come a long way to reach this point. decades of an iranian nuclear program are, 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 sanctions that have proven so effective and other countries wo joined in the effort. i want to thank the united kingdom, france germany, russia china, as well as the

european union for our unity in this effort which showed the world can do remark arable things when we share a vision of peacefully addressing conflict. we showed what we can do when we do not split apart. finally, i want to thank the american negotiating team. we had a team of experts working for several weeks straight on this including our secretary of energy er arenie monise and i want to thank john kerry, our secretary of state, who began his service when he put on our uniform and off to war. he's making this country safer through his commitment to strong principled american diplomacy. history how america must lead not just with might but with our principles. it shows we are strongerer 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. >> you have been watching president obama live from the white house announcing the terms of a historic landmark deal with iran to freeze this place its nuclear program, its long pursuit of a thuker lar bomb. this is something he'll work hard to get through congress. he faces skepticism around the world already anticipating the opposition he addressed many concerns but argued this is a deal that makes the world saferer, cuts off every pathway for iran to a bomb and is not based on trust but on verification and inspections that will be vigorous. richard engel is in telaviv, israel where the prime minister has not been shy saying this is a deal that's a historic mistake, to use his words. richard? >> reporter: prime minister

netanyahu has been vocal already, flooding the internet with statements in hebrew eng english and farsi saying he's opposed saying iran will receive hundreds of millions of dollars to fuel its ter are error machine, expansion and aggression in the middle east and throughout the worldment iran is about to get a safe pathway to a nuclear weapon. the israeli defense minister said this agreement is bad. it rewards deceit terror and war mongering. the thought of reaccepting the chief terrorist regime into the family of first nations is beyond belief. it is not just israel that's not convinced by the deal believes ta iran will cheat, that it will be rewarded for bad behavior. there is a similar feeling in many of the gulf countries who are experiencing a proxy war right on their borders with

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years of negotiations - a nuclear agreement with . history in the making. after years of negotiations a nuclear agreement with iran is reached. the latest from the white house. debating some of the strictest safety regulations in the state following last month's deadly balcony collapse. >> and what a road trip. nasa's new horizon probe reaches pluto pluto. from nbc bay area this is "today in the bay." >> it is an action-packed tuesday morning. thank you for joining us. it's 4:30 i'm sack sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia cannon. first let's check the forecast. >> good morning. we all get the red memo this morning, apparently. as you walk out the