Wallace to Moniz and Kerry: Why Didn’t Obama Keep His Promise to End Iran’s Nuke Program?

Kerry: ‘We have ended their ability to get a weapon’

WALLACE: “When Barack Obama was running for president in 2012, he said this in a presidential debate.”

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OBAMA: “The deal we’ll accept is they end their nuclear program. It’s very straightforward.”

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WALLACE: “Secretary Moniz, I understand that there are limits, but Iran can continue to run its centrifuges. It can continue research. It can continue to enrich uranium. Why didn’t the president keep his pledge to the American people that we would end Iran’s program?”

MONIZ: “Well, first of all, the issue of Iran having a nuclear program was already established in the previous administration. Clearly, what we have done is we have dramatically limited and constrained the program –“

WALLACE: “But the president said –“

MONIZ:  “-- read through -- through 15 years.”

KERRY: “And that would end their ability to get a weapon.”

MONIZ: “To get a weapon.”

KERRY: “We have ended their ability to get a weapon.”

MONIZ: “And the –“

WALLACE: “For a limited time, sir.”

KERRY: “No, not for a limited time, for the duration of the NPT.”

MONIZ: “We are –“

WALLACE: “Well, wait a minute –“

MONIZ: “We are –“

WALLACE: “The president said –“

MONIZ: “We are –“

WALLACE: “Wait a minute.”

MONIZ: “We are better off –“

WALLACE: “The president said –“

MONIZ: “If I may finish -- we are better off forever in terms of Iranian nuclear weapon activity under this agreement than we would be without it.”

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