Obama says Iran could cut nuke time to near zero in 13 years

Iran could have the capabilities to build a nuclear bomb almost immediately after the first 13 years of the emerging nuclear deal, President Barack Obama acknowledged today.
The Republican leader of the US House reacted tersely, arguing that Obama had just confirmed what critics of the deal have long feared.
Under the framework for a final deal, Iran would be kept at least a year away from a bomb for the first decade, Obama said, as he pressed ahead in his campaign to sell the deal to skeptics. Pushing back on criticism that the deal allows Iran to keep enriching uranium, Obama told NPR News that enrichment isn't the prime concern because Iran will be capped for a decade at 300 kilograms not enough to convert to a stockpile of weapons-grade material.

"What is a more relevant fear would be that in Year 13, 14, 15, they have advanced centrifuges that enrich uranium fairly rapidly, and at that point, the breakout times would have shrunk almost down to zero," Obama said.
Breakout time refers to how long it would take to build a bomb if Iran decided to pursue one full-bore in other words, how long the rest of the world would have to stop it.
The framework deal expands Iran's breakout time currently two to three months to at least a year.

Yet that constraint would stay in place only for 10 years, at which point some restrictions would start phasing out.

House Speaker John Boehner said Tehran was taking the long view and cautioned that the Iranian regime could exploit the easing of restrictions to fulfill its ambitions of exporting revolution across the globe.
"It is clear that this 'deal' is a direct threat to peace and security of the region and the world," Boehner said.
Considering Iran's history of evading international inspections, he added, "no one should believe that the proposed inspection and verification are bullet-proof."
The tough talk from Boehner suggested congressional leaders were continuing to sour on the framework deal that Obama and world leaders reached with Iran last week in Switzerland. Previously, Boehner had expressed serious concerns about the deal's parameters, but withheld full judgment until lawmakers had time to digest all the details.

Other top lawmakers, including some members of Obama's party, have been pressing for Congress to hold a vote on whether to approve the deal a prospect Obama has rejected outright. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, a Republican, is pushing legislation that would also prevent Obama from using his own authority to temporarily waive existing US sanctions while Congress debates the deal.