Iran from WH

WH points on Iran.... Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "Schultz, Eric" <Eric_H_Schultz@who.eop.gov> > Date: April 2, 2015 at 5:27:13 PM EDT > To: "'jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com'" <jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: you > > In case you need: > > Historic Understanding with Iran > · Today, the President announced that the United States – with our allies and partners -- has reached an historic understanding with Iran which, if fully implemented, will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and make our country, our allies, and our world safer. > · When the President took office, Iran was operating thousands of centrifuges – which can produce the materials for a nuclear bomb – and was concealing a covert nuclear facility. > · The President made clear that America was prepared to resolve this issue diplomatically – but only if Iran came to the table in a serious way. When that did not happen, he rallied the world to impose the toughest sanctions in history—sanctions which had a profound impact on the Iranian economy and helped bring Iran to the negotiating table. > · The world stood with our diplomatic efforts and we were joined at the negotiating table by the world’s major powers – the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China, as well as the European Union. So far, Iran has met its obligations to eliminate its stockpile of dangerous nuclear material and increase inspections. > > A Good Deal > · Today, after many months of tough, principled diplomacy, we have achieved the framework for a comprehensive deal that meets our core objectives. It’s a deal based not on trust, but on unprecedented verification. > · It would cut off every pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon and include the most robust and intrusive inspections and transparency regime ever negotiated for any nuclear program in history. > · Key details will be finalized over the next few months, but this is the outline of the deal: > 1. Iran will not be able to pursue a bomb using plutonium because it will not develop weapons-grade plutonium. The core of its reactor at Arak will be dismantled and replaced. The spent fuel from that facility will be shipped out of Iran for the life of the reactor. Iran will not build a new heavy water reactor. And Iran will not reprocess fuel from its existing reactors – ever. > > 2. This deal shuts down Iran’s path to a bomb using enriched uranium. Iran has agreed that its installed centrifuges will be reduced by two-thirds. Iran will no longer enrich uranium at its Fordow facility. Iran will not enrich uranium with its advanced centrifuges for at least the next ten years. The vast majority of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium will be neutralized. > > Today, estimates indicate that Iran is only two or three months away from acquiring the raw materials for a single nuclear bomb. Under this deal, Iran has agreed that it will not stockpile the materials needed to build a weapon. Even if it violated the deal, for the next decade, Iran would be at least a year away from acquiring enough material for a bomb. And the strict limitations on Iran’s stockpile will last for 15 years. > > 3. This deal provides the best possible defense against Iran’s ability to pursue a nuclear weapon covertly – that is, in secret. International inspectors will have unprecedented access not only to Iranian nuclear facilities, but to the entire supply chain that supports Iran’s nuclear program – from uranium mills that provide the raw materials, to the centrifuge production and storage facilities that support the program. If Iran cheats, the world will know it. If we see something suspicious, we will inspect it. Iran’s past efforts to weaponize its program will be addressed. With this deal, Iran will face more inspections than any other country in the world. > > Long-Term Deal > · This will be a long-term deal that addresses each path to a potential Iranian nuclear bomb. > · There will be strict limits on Iran’s program for a decade. > · Additional restrictions – on building new facilities, or stockpiling materials – will last for 15 years. The unprecedented transparency measures will last for 20 years or more – indeed, some will be permanent. And as a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran will never be permitted to develop a nuclear weapon. > > Phased, Earned Sanctions Relief > · In return for Iran’s actions, the international community has agreed to provide Iran with relief from certain sanctions – our own sanctions, and international sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council. > · This relief will be phased as Iran takes steps to adhere to the deal. If Iran violates the deal, sanctions can be snapped back into place. Meanwhile, other American sanctions on Iran—for its support of terrorism, its human rights abuses, and its ballistic missile program—will be fully enforced. > > Moving Forward > · The President reiterated that the deal is not yet done – and if there is backsliding from Iran in the months to come, there will be no deal. > · He’s instructed his negotiators to fully brief Congress and the American people on the substance of the agreement. And the President is confident that the deal will be shown to be good for the security of the United States, our allies, and the world. > · The President’s Administration will engage Congress about how it can play a constructive oversight role, and he will begin that effort by speaking to the leaders of the House and Senate today. > · The President will also speak with Prime Minister Netanyahu to make clear that there is no daylight when it comes to our support for Israel’s security and our concerns about Iran’s destabilizing policies and threats toward Israel. > · Additionally, today, he will reach out to the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to reaffirm our commitment to the security of our partners in the Gulf. And he is inviting the leaders of the six countries who make up the Gulf Cooperation Council to meet me at Camp David this Spring to discuss how we can further strengthen our security cooperation. > > Bigger Than Politics > · Inevitably, there will be critics – but the context is crucial and the questions to ask is simple: do you really think that this verifiable deal – backed by the world’s major powers – is worse than the risk of another war in the Middle East? Is it worse than doing what we’ve done for almost two decades, with Iran moving forward and without robust inspections? > · This is not simply a deal between the President’s Administration and Iran. It’s a deal between Iran, the United States of America, and the major powers in the world – including some of our closest allies. > · If Congress kills this deal—not based on expert analysis, and without offering any reasonable alternative—then it is the United States that will be blamed for the failure of diplomacy. International unity will collapse, and the path to conflict will widen. > · The American people understand this, which is why solid majorities support a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue. > > > > From: Jennifer Palmieri [mailto:jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 11:11 PM > To: Schultz, Eric > Subject: Re: you > > Love it!! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 1, 2015, at 7:21 PM, Schultz, Eric <Eric_H_Schultz@who.eop.gov> wrote: > >> are on my list for Iran deal outreach!!!