Amb. Nicholas Burns: ‘Sensible’ Iran Deal ‘Stops Nuclear Program in its Tracks’

TODD: “But aren't those the two things that are non-negotiable as far at the U.S. is concerned? Which is that essentially the Iraq plant has to be dismantled. That there really -- there's no -- Ben Rhodes didn't quite say it, but he almost said it. And the second thing is, they're not going to get to enrich uranium, period. Fair?”
BURNS: “Well on the first one, the Iraq heavy-water reactor is an alternate route through plutonium to a nuclear weapon. That has to be shut down. On the second, it may well be that at the end of the day, if there is an agreement, the Iranians will have some kind of right to low-level enrichment, but not much beyond that, and certainly not anything that's approaching weapons grade. So the agreement's going to be sometime in that, and somewhere in that area. But the United States is going to have to have daily inspections, that's given to them by the interim deal, and absolute iron clad assurances that Iran is stopped well short of a nuclear weapon. So I think there is too much euphoria probably right now. The Administration's done a very good job negotiating this, but there's a long, long way to go here."