ford dow. it would need a secret source for every single aspect of its program. no nation in history has been able to pull off such subterfuge when subjected to such rigorous inspections. and under the terms of the deal inspectors will have the permanent ability to inspect any suspicious sites in iran. finally iran has powerful incentives to keep its commitments. before getting sanctions relief, iran has to take significant, concrete steps like removing centrifuges and getting rid of its stockpile. if iran violates the agreement over the next decade all of the sanctions can snap back into place. we won t need support of other members of the u.n. security concerns sill. america can trigger snap-back on our own. on other hand if iran abides by the deal and it is economy
would need a secret source for every single aspect of its program. no nation in history has been able to pull off such subterfuge when subjected to such rigorous inspections. and under the terms of the deal inspectors will have the permanent ability to inspect any suspicious sites in iran. and finally, iran has powerful incentives to keep its commitments. before getting sanctions relief iran has to take significant concrete steps, like removing centrifuges and getting rid of its stockpiles. if iran violates the agreement over the next decade all of the sanctions can snap back into place. we won t need the support of other members of the u.n. security council, america can trigger snapback on our own. on the other hand, if iran abides by the deal and its economy begins to reintegrate
country for the lifetime of the reactor for at least the next 15 years, iran will not build any new heavy water reactors. because of this deal we will for the first time be in a position to verify all of these commitments. that means this deal is not built on trust. it is built on verification. inspectors will have 24/7 access to iran s key nuclear facilities. iran will have access to their entire nuclear supply chain, the uranium mines and mills, conversion facility and the storage facilities. this ensures that iran will not be able to divert materials from known facilities to covert ones. some of these transparency measures will be in place for 25 years. because of this deal inspectors will be able to access any suspicious location put simply the organization responsible for
years. because of this deal inspectors will also be able to access any suspicious location. put simply the organization responsible for the inspections, the iaea will have access where necessary, when necessary. that arrangement is permanent. and the iaea has reached an agreement with iran to get access that it needs to complete its investigation into the possible military dimensions of iran s past nuclear research. finally, iran is permanently prohibited from pursuing a nuclear weapon under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty which provided the basis for the efforts to apply pressure on iran. as iran takes steps to implement this deal, it will receive relief from the sanctions that we put in place because of iran s nuclear program. both america s own sanctions and sanctions imposed by the united nations security council.
mines to centrifuge manufacturing and operation. so what this means is in fact that to be able to have a covert path iran would need far more than one covert facility. it would need an entire covert supply chain in order to feed into that site and to ensure that that does not happen without our knowledge, under this deal inspectors would be able to gain access to any location the iaea and the majority of the p5 plus one nations deem suspicious. it is no secret the iaea has long standing questions about the military dimensions of iran s nuclear program. that is one of the primary reasons we are even here today and we and our partners made clear throughout the