guessing but based on some experience about 20 minutes, but to really answer your questions, i would have to do a little more research. i can tell you that we saw the iranian delegation go by as i walked to the camera to speak to you. and my understanding is that they will speak before john kerry. this is a very important moment for john kerry. it s hard to quantify how significant this moment is for john kerry, except to perhaps say and there has been some reporting about this that there is a diplomatic historian who is quoted as saying he can t remember the last time a secretary of state for the united states has spent this much time on foreign soil negotiating for an agreement since the ver sigh treatment that ended world war i. this is a significant, dedicated hard won process for john kerry.
seeing inside what was happening. in fact, not having a relationship with iran not talking about this with iran has allowed iran s number of centrifuges to skyrocket to as you said 19,000. there was a time right after 9/11 when the then-president had offered president george bush that he would limit the number of centrifuges to just over 100. less than 200 centrifuges. at that time he was not iran was part of the axis of evil and that was not possible. now iran is up to 19,000. so having this conversation bringing it down to 6100 is a very important development. you make a great point there and a huge distinction when it comes to any type of relationship as the foreign minister pointed out about engagement, diplomacy being so important here. ann curry reporting for us there in switzerland. ann, thank you. as we talk about inspections and transparency, i want to bring in
temporarily, phase them out, suspend them depending on whether iran complies. andrea we re looking at images on the left hand side of the screen where they will then go onto the press conference but the associated press had been reporting that there are still disagreements. so is saying that they ve come to some type of middle ground premature? reporter: that is going to be debated. we have to see exactly what they say. i think what they are going to try to say as specifically as john kerry is permitted under the terms of the agreement, they accomplish the a number of things, an agreement to reengineer a plutonium facility underground, so there is some limits, new limits in fact on iran s nuclear program. they will also say, i think that they will continue what iran has obeyed that the last 18 months to stop expanding the nuclear program which it says is