December 14 2013 Breaking News President Barack Obama Iran Nuclear Deal Last Days News Update
President Barack Obama said Saturday that the United States would
allow Iran to retain nuclear enrichment capabilities as part of a final
deal to end its weapons program.
But requiring Iran to dismantle
its entire nuclear program prior to relaxing any sanctions – as Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks – is as pie-in-the-sky as
Congress doing exactly what the president wants, Obama said.
“You’ll
hear arguments, including potentially from the prime minister, that said
we can’t accept any enrichment on Iranian soil, period, full stop, end
of conversation,” Obama said at the Saban Forum of the Brookings
Institute.He continued: “One can envision an ideal world in which
Iran said, ‘We’ll destroy every element and facility and you name it,
it’s all gone.’ I can envision a world in which Congress passed every
one of my bills that I put forward. There are a lot of things that I can
envision that would be wonderful.”
Iran, Obama said, will always retain some nuclear enrichment
capability simply because it is no longer a terribly difficult process.
“Theoretically, they will always have some capability because
technology here is available to any good physics student at pretty much
any university around the world,” he said. “And they have already gone
through the cycle to the point where the knowledge we are not going to
be able to eliminate. But what we can do is eliminate the incentive for
them to want to do this.”
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