Officials reveal the drug lord musz have had inside help. This morning, the intricate tunnels that now line the border. And ready for its closeup. All eyes on pluto this morning for nasas historic flyby. The journey to our Solar Systems final frontier ten years in the making today, tuesday, july 14th, 2015. Morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Matts got the week off. President obama said irans pathway to a bomb has been cut off. His critics expressing their doubt. Its our breaking news. This historic agreement between the u. S. , iran, and five other nations is supposed to freeze irans pursuit of a Nuclear Weapon in its tracks. Willie just mentioned the deal is being praised by the president but not by everyone. Nbc senior White House Correspondent Chris Jansing has all the details from the white house. Dpoom to you. Good morning, savannah. This is a major diplomatic victory for president obama, a defining moment in his presidency, a deal he says this morning makes
this deal meets every single one of the bottom lines that we established when we achieved a framework earlier this spring. every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off. we first got word of the deal in the wee hours of the morning, and while details are still coming in this morning, here s what we know so far. the deal wim limit iran s nuclear program for ten years. it will curb its nuclear research for 15 years. after that period of time iran can go back to doing what it was doing before this deal was reached. the hope is that iaea inspections of iran s nuclear sites will keep an eye on what s occurring. those could begin as soon as next month. in exchange the u.n. will lift a ban on conventional weapons in five years and ballistic missiles in eight years or maybe sooner. if iran complies with a deal it could get billions of dollars in sanctions relief. at the for of this deal two men, john kerry and zarif, who spent countless hours working across the table to come to a de
apparent from what certainly the iranian leaders had been saying very early in this deal is that the sanctions will not be lifted until iran meets nuclear commitments until the satisfaction of the atomic energy agency. there s a lot to be gained from this as secretary kerry said to me what are the alternatives. i did ask him though what is certain to be controversialing, which is the phasing out of sanctions that have been in existence since 2006 and the last u.n. resolution was actually negotiated by susan rice, the national security adviser, when she was u.n. ambassador. this is the u.n. embargo on the sell of conventional weapons to or from iran and ballistic missiles. this was secretary kerry s response. the united nations passed a resolution that said if iran comes to the negotiating table the sanctions will be lifted. that was the deal. we re not even doing that. we re keeping the sanctions in place despite the fact that three of the negotiating countries thought they