From left to right, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammon, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz pose for a group picture at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, world powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions an agreement designed to avert the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and another U.S. military intervention in the Muslim world. (Carlos Barria/AP)
President Obama is praising the nuclear deal announced Tuesday in Vienna as one not built on trust but "built on verification." He said it removes "every pathway" to Iran producing a nuclear weapon.
But critics, such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, say the deal does the opposite — that it clears the path for Iran to produce a nuclear weapon.
Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti is joined by security analyst Jim Walsh, with the MIT Security Studies Program, for an analysis of the deal.
Guest
Jim Walsh, security analyst with the MIT Security Studies Program. He tweets at @drjimwalshmit.
