Iranian nuclear deal is reached: "[It is] not built on trust, it is built on verification"
VIENNA — Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States said they had reached a historic accord on Tuesday to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions.
Continue Reading http://www.nytimes.comHighlights of the article:
- Iran will be lifted of major international oil and financial sanctions
- Major restrictions on amount of nuclear fuel in stockpile (98% reduction of low enriched uranium)
- Diplomats added the unusual procedure to "snap back" all sanctions if Tehran violates the nuclear provisions
- "Breakout time" - time Iran needs to get enough material for a bomb - will therefore be extended to one year, from current two to three months
- This breakout time will shrink after first decade, how much will be kept confidential from public but not US inspectors
- Secretary of State John Kerry, who led negotiations, has assured verification measures will stay in place permanently
- An embargo on conventional weapons and missiles, started 2006, would remain for 5 and 8 years, respectively
- Those bans would be removed sooner is International Atomic Energy Agency is able to definitively conclude Iran's nuclear program is peaceful
- Iranian citizens, while glad for the deal, are skeptical that their government will maintain the deal
- US President Barack Obama has said he will "veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal"
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President Obama addresses Iran deal
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