John Kerry Blames Bush for Iran’s Nuclear Breakout Capacity

WOODRUFF: But it is said that right now they have a breakout capacity, three to four months, and at the end of this agreement it would be a year. Meanwhile, they have enrichment capacity, they have the ability to do research and development on these so-called advanced centrifuges, enriching uranium where they could even potentially, and the president himself has acknowledged this, create a weapon within, almost instantly."
KERRY: "Well, let me describe where we are today, Judy, because it’s important for people to think about where is the starting point here. When I became secretary of state, they had 20,000 centrifuges, a very large stockpile of enriched uranium at 20 percent and they were moving in the direction of really threatening perhaps go down and get bomb. Now, they no longer have that 20 percent enriched uranium. It’s been reduced to zero. It’s gone. They no longer enrich above a small percentage, 3.5 percent. They no longer have the ability to break out in the same period of time as when we started this.

"When President Obama became president, they already had enrichment; they already had mastered the fuel cycle. So in the years preceding that, they were edging up and up and up constantly. Now we’re going the other way. We’re rolling the program back and putting in place a very strict set of transparency and accountability measures that will allow us to know what is happening. And it is not accurate to say it is only 10 years. Some measures that are in this deal go for 15 years, some go for 20 years, some go for 25 years, like the tracking of uranium. That’s a 25-year tracking of uranium. From mining, to milling, to the yellow cake, to the gas, to the centrifuge, the waste. We’ll follow every part of that. And there are lifetime provisions here, 'forever provisions,' that they have to adhere to."