09.04.2015 - 06:45 [ Außenministerium der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ]

Daily Press Briefing: Iran

QUESTION: Prime Minister Netanyahu has put out a statement, right – probably unsurprising to you – but he put out a statement that says Israel shares the view that upon the expiry of the nuclear agreement with Iran, their breakout time to achieve nuclear weapons will be zero. So is he —

MS HARF: Well, that’s just factually inaccurate. I don‘t know what —

QUESTION: Is he —

MS HARF: First of all, this deal doesn’t expire. There are pieces of this deal, important transparency measures, that go forever. So the notion that this deal expires and on the next day they’re at zero is just factually inaccurate because parts of it never expire. As we know, we pushed them under this deal to a year of breakout time. So I don‘t know how he’s – on what technical basis he is making that assertion. There isn’t one.

QUESTION: Well, I think he’s basing it on what the President himself said in the interview.

MS HARF: But the President was referring – as we’ve said publicly, Matt – I cannot be more clear about this – he was referring to a scenario in which there is no deal.