they ve certainly invested a lot of resources to understand this process better. they re using a great deal of intelligence. i think their estimates are the better one. right now, if nothing changes, two to three months iran could say, we have the material for a bomb. that s right. if they went headlong in that direction. and under this deal they re trying to push it back to more like a year. yeah. how do you deal with the question of secrecy? that s one of the big questions for everyone. the goal is to get a year breakout time or at least a year at the declared sites. but then you have to worry about the covert sites. then you need much better inspections. part of the deal that the u.s. wants is that the inspectors would have many more rights to inspect, to drastically reduce the chance that iran is building secret sites to enrich uranium and to create mechanisms for enforcement that if they re caught david, thank you very much. good insights there. and a reality check
very short, about a year by u.s. assessment even shorter by israel s. so there you have the basic claim that they re making iran s nuclear program remains largely intact. let s bring in the map. david, we ll talk about this. the sites scattered across iran right now, about 19,000 different centrifuges at work out there. you can see they ve had tours in past years with ahmadinejad when he was there. here s an aerial view of the same thing. what about this claim, this idea that basically this will not be dismantled under this deal? what happens at natanz? the excess centrifuges will be made inoperative and very hard to restart. what does that mean? it means it will take them months to get going again. the pipes would be disconnected certainly turned off. in the negotiations you could also push to have some of the
states congress the israeli prime minister primarily focused his speech on a proposed deal on the table between iran and what are called the p5 plus 1, the five permanent members of the unsecurity council plus germany. the prime minister made a few allegations about iran s nuclear programs. let s check the facts. tom foreman is joining us together with david albright a former u.n. nuclear weapons inspector. tom, break it all down for us. wolf one of the chief complaints of the prime minister is just that that this proposal really does not dismantle the nuclear capability for iran. listen. not a single nuclear facility would be demolished. thousands of centrifuges used to enrich uranium would be left spinning. thousands more would be temporarily disconnected but not destroyed. because iran s nuclear program would be left largely intact iran s breakout time would be