we were told defen actively there is no wine in fordo. there was plenty of radioactive material which has to come out under this agreement. but the idea here was take the politics out. the problem is that when this goes to congress if your vision of what the deal was going to be was take apart all of iran's nuclear facilities, dismantle everything there's nothing that earnest monees can say to you that you'll like. gwen: there you go. the accountability of iran seems to be the sticking point not only at that table but also here. how do -- how do they reassure, is it possible i expos, for the administration to reassure anybody that iran will be accountable to this deal? >> look, i think the administration needs to do a better job of explaining why this deal is not great for iran. it's not a gift to iran. because the other side has been able to sort of appropriate this argument in saying this is a gift. all the sanctions are being released. they're allowed to enrich. it's not good. what -- what they could turn that argument on the head and

. >> we know that they don't need to have an underground, fortified facility like fordo. >> reporter: the president said they don't need to have an underground facility like fordo to have a peaceful nuclear program. but this military complex will now stay open. >> reporter: but the question comes down to this do the deal's opponents in congress have the two-thirds vote to override a veto. the answer is that no they don't. the president likes to say he will live long enough to see whether the deal will fail. now it is appears certain he'll have that chance. >>> president obama is vocally responding to criticism that the deal doesn't force iran to get rid of its nuclear infrastructure entirely. >> he spoke with "the new york times". >> i think that criticism is misguided. we have cut off every pathway for iran to develop a nuclear weapon. the reason we were able to unify the world community around the most effective sanctions regime we have ever set up a sanction regime that crippled the iranian economy and brought them to the table was because the world agreed with us it would be a gre

after several months of bargaining they said that one cascade should remain in fordo. 154. let me tell you that there will be centrifuges in fordo, and part of that will be allocated to r&d concerning sustainable isotopes. regarding the annulment or lifting of sanctions, they said that the sanction also not be lifted at once and they said that the sanctions several months -- we will gradually lift the -- they said we are not going to lift the sanctions. do not speak of lifting of sanctions. they said the sanctions have to be first suspended and then in years to come if the iaea gave a positive report then we -- the sanctions would be lifted step by step. today i announce to the great nation of iran that based on this deal on the day of implementation of the deal, all the sanctions even arms embargoes and even missile sanctions as stipulated by the resolution, they will all be lifted. and all the financial and banking sanctions related to insurance, transportation, and sanctions related to refineries and valuable minerals, precious metals and all the economic sanctions will

. >> in fordo. had knows what else they have been building in the huge area of the country hard to detect or what they're doing together with north korea under a mountain in north korea. >> what was our alternative to have no deal at all and have sanctions to cripple them. >> the sanctions were not crippling them. >> what would you have done. >> the course we have been on for 20 years now the mostly outcome deal or no deal is iran gets nuclear weapons. the unpleasant realty is is the only way to stop iran from getting nuclear weapons is if somebody is prepared to use military force. the president himself said all the time all options are on the table but never meant it and he doesn't mean it now. that's why it's up to israel one way or the other. >> so would you expect that israel would take some military action? israel going to sit back and be unhappy with this and watch it unfold which ever way it unfolds? >> i think they should have taken action five years ago. >> what do they do now. >> should a

. >> we know that they don't need to have a underground fortified facility like fordo, in order to have a peaceful program. >> the president told us they don't have to have an underground facility like fordo in order to have a successful nuclear program. but this military complex will now stay open. >> reporter: the big question comes down to this do the deal's opponents in congress have the two-thirds vote needed to overvidride a presidential veto? the answer is, no, they don't. the president likes to say he'll have enough time during the duration of his life to see if this deal fails. now he will have that chance and another chance to address these questions tomorrow when he holds a news conference here at the white house. >> be interesting to hear. jim acosta at the white house, thanks so much. two-thirds is a high hurdle but one senator is intent on beating that hurdle. he's been critical from the very beginning of this deal senator tom cotton of arkansas called the deal a dangerous mistake. we'll talk to him next. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel

. >> we know that they don't need to have a underground fortified facility like fordo in order to have a peaceful nuclear program. >> the president told us iran does not need to have an under ground fortified facility like fordo in order to have a peaceful nuclear program. yet this military complex will now stay open. >> the big question comes down though this -- do the deal's opponents in congress have the two-thirds vote need ed to override a presidential veto? the answer from both ends of pennsylvania avenue is no they don't. president likes to say he will live long enough to see whether or not this deal fails. now it is all but certain he will have that chance. jim acosta cnn, the white house. >>> we are joined by josh roggin cnn political analyst. josh when obama was campaigning for the presidency in the first place, he talked about engaging back then, didn't he with hostile regimes. this is very much part of a long-term strategy, what he sees as one of his legacies. >> president obama when campaigning promised to out stretch his hand in the hope that rogue regimes would enclinch

we asked for them to close out fordos. it will be open. we said no enrichment. they'll enrich. we said any time there was access to military sights we would manage access. the deal is between 8-15 years at the outside. it was only in 2003 that we learned about iran's nuclear programme. the weapon's programme, and it's been 10 years since that. that's a problem for us. >> we'll see what happens. good to have you in the programme. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> with the iran nuclear deal done, activists say it's time to turn attention to human rights violations next, why the situation could get worse before it gets better, and a look at how the relationship between the u.s. and iran, how it went downhill more than six decades ago. >> ali veslshi brings you a rare firs oo [ ♪♪ ] >> announcer: an al jazeera special report, iran - inside the deal - continues. >>> welcome back. some critics of the nuclear deal point to the human rights record. >> by most acts tehran is holding hundreds of political prisoners, including three americans. >> reporter: many activists

regarding fordo they said it's really been difficult to hear the name of fordo, do not name it and we will -- we won't hear it. then they said that -- they said that there should be no centrifuges in fordo, and also it's going to be a resent sent for sustainable isotopes. after several months of bargaining they said that one cascade should remain in fordo. 154. let me tell you that there will be certainty fugse in fordo, and part of that will be allocated to r&d concerning sustainable isotopes. regarding the annulment or lifting of sanctions, they said that the sanction also not be lifted at once and they said that the sanctions several months -- we will gradually lift the -- they said we are not going to lift the sanctions. do not speak of lifting of sanctions. they said the sanctions have to be first suspended and then in years to come if the iaea gave a positive report then we -- the sanctions would be lifted step by step. today i announce to the great nation of iran that based on this deal on the day of implementation of the deal, all the sanctions even arms embargoes and even mis

enrichment program at fordo fordo would be closed completely. they will still have five, 6000 centrifuges but of a lower power. then the advanced centrifuges for the next 10 years, but their store of enriched uranium will be 3.67% at 300 kilograms, stored terrain. that is not weapons grade. they will not have the weapons grade uranium to make a nuclear device because of the restrictions of the plant. right now the obama administration has said publicly that iran maybe two to three months with from a nuclear weapon. with a steal and there's no dispute about this, for the next 10 years as the program is frozen iran will be a year away from a nuclear weapon. something the administration can make a case whether you agree with him or not on the ultimate deal that the program is going to be frozen. the plutonium and uranium enrichment programs and that i think is an important attribute of this deal. second, iran will now be subjected to inspections that is never been subjected to before, 25 years under the additional protocol of the iaea inspections.

we asked for them to close out fordos. we said any time there was access to military sights we would manage access. the deal is between 8-15 years at the outside. it was only in 2003 that we learned about iran's nuclear programme. and it's been 10 years since that. that is a problem for us. >> we'll see what happens. good to have you in the programme. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> with the iran nuclear deal done activists say it's time to turn essential to human rights violations next why the situation could get worse before it gets better and a look at how the relationship between the u.s. and iran how it went downhill more than six decades ago. [ ♪♪ ] >> announcer: an al jazeera special report iran - inside the deal - tips. >>> welcome back. some critics of the nuclear deal point to the human rights record. >> by most acts tehran is holding hundreds of political prisoners, including three americans. >> reporter: many activists are welcoming the deal as a way to promote peace. now they say they shoul

essentially, iran was sanctioned because of what had happened at fordo. its unwillingness to comply with previous u.n. security resolutions about their nuclear program, and as part of the package of sanctions that was slapped on them the issue of arms and ballistic missiles were included. now, under the terms of the original u.n. resolution the fact is that once a -- an agreement -- once an agreement was arrived at that gave the international community assurance iran didn't have a nuclear weapon you could argue just looking at the text that those arms and ballistic missiles prohibition should immediately go away. but what i've said to our negotiators was beings given that iran has breached trust and the uncertainty of our allies in the region about iran's activities let's press for a longer extension of the arms embargo and the ballistic missile prohibitions. and we got that. we got five years in which, under this new agreement, arms coming in and out of iran are prohibited. eight years with respect to ballistic missiles. part of the reason why we were wi

the sites that are declared nuclear facilities in the towns of iraq fordo, there will be 24-7 any timeywhere access? >> that's correct. the iaea, international inspectors can have daily access. this 24-day process is what would apply to undeclared sites that we the international community, the iaea suspect afs as having undeclared nuclear activities. >> this was a group negotiation in a sense, the united states was not alone on one side of the table, you had russia china, the europeans. did you have to give in on some of your core preferences or your preferences to accommodate, say, russia's views? >> by the way it's a very important point, fareed this really was a six-nation negotiation. the five permanent members of the security council plus germany. sure we had to negotiate among ourselves because there are lots of trade-offs in this. for example, even the one-year breakout time there are many ways to achieve that and different countries weighted things differently. i think in the end, in that case our scientists from all six countries worked very very well together. i think the coh

fordo, natanz iraq their uranium mines, facilities that are known to produce centrifuges, parts. that entire infrastructure that we know about we will have sophisticated 24/7 monitoring of those facilities. so then the issue is what if they try to develop a covert program. now, one of the advantages of having inspections across the entire production chain is that it makes it very difficult to set up a covert program. you know there are only so many uranium mines in iran and if in fact we're counting the amount we're counting the amount of rue yan yumuranium and suddenly some is missing on the back end, they have some explaining to do. so we're able to track what's happening along the existing facilities to make sure that there is not diversion into a covert program. but let's say that iran is so determined that it now wants to operate covertly. the iaea the international organization charged with implementing the nonproliferation treaty and monitoring nuclear activities in countries around the world, the iaea will have the ability to say, that undeclared site, we're concerned abo

. >> with regard to fordo what's the assessment there. if they wanted to breach the agreement and get up and running again, does that take a significant amount of time? >> yes. most of the centrifuges infrastructure will not only be stripped out completely but they'll not be stord at fordo. they must be taken up to natanz. we'll have an iaea presence and an international presence. the russians working with them on stable isotopes. if they kick everybody out, you know -- alarm bells go off. >> secretary carter, do our military options become marginally brlt or worse before or after the agreement? >> if the agreement is implemented, they become marginally better for the reason that the agreement the facilities are -- we learn more about them. many of them are dismantled and so in that sense, that purely technical military sense becomes somewhat easier. >> i want to discuss the two secret side deals between the hi iaea and iran. i had to travel to vienna last week to discover the existness of these side deals. there's still some lack of clar

as the regime been required to shut down and dismantle the facility it is building at fordo? no.has iranian regime been required to halt its ongoing missile development? no. six, has the regime been requires to hult -- amount and research the program that will enable it to break out a bomb far more quickly? no. seven, have they didn't required to dismantle our enrichment facilities? no. eight, has the international community set out how it will respond to different kinds of violations to ensure it can act with sufficient speed and efficiency to thwart a breakout of the bomb. no. has iranian regime been required to surrender for trial the members of the leadership placed on the interpol watch list for the alleged involvement in the bombing by the hezbollah suicide bomber of the amia jewish community center in argentina in 1994 and resulting in the deaths of 85 people? no. has the iranian regime undertaken to close its 80 estimated cultural centers in south america from which it allegedly fostered terrorists networks? no. has the iranian leadership agreed to stop inciting hatred ag

dismantle any of iran's nuclear facilities including the once secret underground military facility at fordo. and it eventually lifts a u.s. arms embargo that had prevented iran from acquireing inter intercontinental ballistic missiles. >> what a stunning historic mistake. >> reporter: and the deal faces a challenge in congress as well. >> it's continue hand a dangerous regime billions of dollars in sanctions relief while paving the way for a nuclear iran. >> reporter: secretary kerry took his critics head-on, touting the success so far of the interim agreement in freezing iran's nuclear program. >> man, were we told by skeptics that we were making the mistake of a lifetime, that iran would never comply that this was a terrible agreement. but you know what, they were dead wrong. >> reporter: there are still some open questions, for instance instance, will the west be able to interview iranian scientists who may have worked on a weaponization program in the past. but it is the decided questions that are creating their own controversies, one the lifting of that conventional and ballistic missi

. >> we know that they don't need to have an underground fortified facility like fordo in order to have a peaceful nuclear program. >> once again today those remarks were meaningless, and the associated press reported iran committed to convert its enrichment site dug deep into a mountainside into a research center. this nuclear deal was one that was struck with one of the leading state sponsors of terror and of course a country whose supreme leader routinely calls for the annihilation of jews israel and the united states. here with reaction for the first time, former vice president of the united states dick cheney. mr. vice president, a day that will live in infamy? your thoughts? >> i can't help but shake my head, sean, at what we're seeing here. we've seen a repetition of the same kind of operation with respect to other issues. one thing that really disturbed me was when he said we have quote stopped the proliferation of nuclear weapons. that's a lie. the fact of the matter is that the situation we've got when iran ends up with a nuclear weapon that is bound to lead others in the regi

so very strong on the fordo facility.nt them to criticism that britain has against this deal is what will happen after 10 years? in 10 years i ran how iran committed for 10 years to operate 5060 of its ir when centrifuges. iran is not going to go over a cliff in 10 years. this agreement makes very clear that the work on advanced centrifuge machines will be limited and they will be phased in in such a way that one day after 10 years iran cannot deploy thousands of centrifuge and then the weeks away from attaining material for a nuclear weapon. so don't love it more closely iran currently has about 1000 advanced centrifuge machines in various states that it's natanz pilot production of its of the. iran will have a few months to finish up the testing with some of those cascades and then it will remove nearly all of the advanced machines and store them under seal. during the duration, a 10 year duration, iran will be allowed to operate one ir format michigan won ir five michigan won ir six machine and one ir eight machine for

enrichment enrichment research and development, or nuclear material will be permitted at iran's underground fordouclear site. the agreement also cuts off the plutonium route to developing a nuclear bomb. iran's heavy water research reactor at arak will be redesigned and rebuilt so that it will no longer have the capability to produce weapons-grade plutonium. given the historical levels of mistrust that have built up between iran and the international community, a strong inspections regime and a framework for addressing concerns about past military dimensions to iran's nuclear program are vital for building trust and providing us with the confidence that iran is meeting its commitments. some of the crucial monitoring and transparency measures of this deal will last indefinitely, such as the implementation of the additional protocol to the comprehensive safeguards agreement. the ap for every country allows access to sites about which the iaea has concerns that cannot be addressed in any other way. iran is no exception. iran's npt obligation, including the obligation never to acquire or develop nucl

iran will have to stop enriching rur uranium at the fordo facility and stop producing weapon grade plutoniumdesign the reactor so it cannot do that again. the next president will inherit an iranian nuclear program that is significantly rolled back under this deal. we believe that that's the right course of action. >> white house deputy national security adviser ben rhodes. ben, great to see you. thanks for your time. >> thanks. good being with you. >>> when we come back presidential hopeful and con tr verse she firebrand donald trump weighing in on the iran nuke deal. remember to keep telling us what you think at pulse.msnbc.com. our question for you today do you trust iran to stick to its side of the nuclear agreement? >>> plus hillary clinton weighing in on the iran deal earlier. but that was just the start of a jam packed visit on capitol hill. we'll take you there live for the very latest. >>> and then on a different note, the weather. tornadoes, flooding, hail, severe weather tearing across the midwest. we're going to explain where the threatening system is headed next. are you moving f

could give in terms of additional infrastructure removal from centrifuge places both in the towns of fordo in terms of 20% uranium issues but these were very robust. i think all six countries feel very, very confident in our conclusions. >> congressman, i think on the sanctions side, we have very different systems here in the united states and the eu. and the questions we're getting on irgc underscore we need to look at our system and their system and understand they're different. they're not enlisting the irgc for terrorist activities. if they do, at the end of phase two, delist for nuclear, the terrorist sanctions still stays in place. so i think people looking at the document ought to understand what is actually going to be in place after it's in effect. and i think the cooperation with the europeans requires we not distort what they're doing. that i -- they're not taking the rgc off the terrorist list. >> the gentleman from texas. >> thank you, gentlemen. i have received numerous questions from people in texas, and i will submit those for the record. they're pretty simple questions, bu

instead fordo will be transformed into a nuclear physics and research center.r treatment and subject to daily inspection. it will have other nations working in unison with the iranians within that technology center. so when this deal is implemented, the two uranium paths iran has towards fisle material will be closed off. we agree iran's heavy water reactor at our rock will be rebuilt based on final design the united states and international partners will approve so that it will only be used for peaceful purposes. iran will not build a new heavy water reactor or reprocess fuel from existing reactors at least 15 years. this agreement is not only about what happens to iran's declared facilities. the deal we have reached also gives us the greatest assurance that we have had that iran will not pursue a weapon covertly. not only will inspectors access iran's declared facilities daily, but they will also have access to the entire supply chain that supports iran's nuclear program from start to finish. from uranium mines to centrifuge operations and manufacturing. this