Kerry Tells McCaul "Iran's centrifuges may never stop spinning"
December 10, 2013
Kerry Tells McCaul “Iran’s centrifuges may never stop spinning"
WASHINGTON, DC – Today U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) questioned Secretary Kerry about the proposed Iranian nuclear deal during a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. During the exchange, Congressman McCaul pressed Secretary Kerry on whether the administration would continue to leverage the current sanctions in place during negotiations in order to ensure Iran would stop enriching uranium.
02:32 - Chairman McCaul: "Mr. Secretary, are you willing at the end of the 6 months, in the final deal to say 'look we're willing to lift the sanctions when you stop enriching uranium'?"
02:58 - Secretary Kerry: "If there are less than 1,000 or 500 or whatever they are, they may never stop spinning them but they are very limited in what they're gonna be able to do."
04:31 - Chairman McCaul: "I think you would have more confidence from Israel and I think members of Congress if you came back in 6 months and said they can have a peaceful program but not enriching uranium inside Iran. And that can be done by providing that enriched uranium to them outside of Iran. I would urge you to pursue that."
05:03 - Secretary Kerry: "That deal was on the table a number of years ago but that deal, I'm afraid, has probably been lost."