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Parameters for a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regardingthe Islamic Republic of Iran’s Nuclear Program

Below are the key parameters of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) regarding theIslamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program that were decided in Lausanne, Switzerland. Theseelements form the foundation upon which the final text of the JCPOA will be written betweennow and June 30, and reflect the significant progress that has been made in discussions betweenthe P5+1, the European Union, and Iran. Important implementation details are still subject tonegotiation, and nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. We will work to conclude theJCPOA based on these parameters over the coming months.

 Enrichment

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Iran has agreed to reduce by approximately two-thirds its installed centrifuges. Iran willgo from having about 19,000 installed today to 6,104 installed under the deal, with only5,060 of these enriching uranium for 10 years. All 6,104 centrifuges will be IR-1s, Iran’sfirst-generation centrifuge.

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Iran has agreed to not enrich uranium over 3.67 percent for at least 15 years.

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Iran has agreed to reduce its current stockpile of about 10,000 kg of low-enricheduranium (LEU) to 300 kg of 3.67 percent LEU for 15 years.

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All excess centrifuges and enrichment infrastructure will be placed in IAEA monitoredstorage and will be used only as replacements for operating centrifuges and equipment.

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Iran has agreed to not build any new facilities for the purpose of enriching uranium for 15years.

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Iran’s breakout timeline – the time that it would take for Iran to acquire enough fissilematerial for one weapon – is currently assessed to be 2 to 3 months. That timeline will beextended to at least one year, for a duration of at least ten years, under this framework.

Iran will convert its facility at Fordow so that it is no longer used to enrich uranium

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Iran has agreed to not enrich uranium at its Fordow facility for at least 15 years.

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Iran has agreed to convert its Fordow facility so that it is used for peaceful purposes only – into a nuclear, physics, technology, research center.

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Iran has agreed to not conduct research and development associated with uraniumenrichment at Fordow for 15 years.

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Iran will not have any fissile material at Fordow for 15 years.

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Almost two-thirds of Fordow’s centrifuges and infrastructure will be removed. Theremaining centrifuges will not enrich uranium. All centrifuges and related infrastructurewill be placed under IAEA monitoring.

Iran will only enrich uranium at the Natanz facility, with only 5,060 IR-1 first-generationcentrifuges for ten years.

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Iran has agreed to only enrich uranium using its first generation (IR-1 models)centrifuges at Natanz for ten years, removing its more advanced centrifuges.

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Iran will remove the 1,000 IR-2M centrifuges currently installed at Natanz and placethem in IAEA monitored storage for ten years.

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Iran will not use its IR-2, IR-4, IR-5, IR-6, or IR-8 models to produce enriched uraniumfor at least ten years. Iran will engage in limited research and development with itsadvanced centrifuges, according to a schedule and parameters which have been agreed to by the P5+1.

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For ten years, enrichment and enrichment research and development will be limited toensure a breakout timeline of at least 1 year. Beyond 10 years, Iran will abide by itsenrichment and enrichment R&D plan submitted to the IAEA, and pursuant to theJCPOA, under the Additional Protocol resulting in certain limitations on enrichmentcapacity.

Inspections and Transparency

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The IAEA will have regular access to all of Iran’s nuclear facilities, including to Iran’senrichment facility at Natanz and its former enrichment facility at Fordow, and includingthe use of the most up-to-date, modern monitoring technologies.

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Inspectors will have access to the supply chain that supports Iran’s nuclear program. Thenew transparency and inspections mechanisms will closely monitor materials and/orcomponents to prevent diversion to a secret program.

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Inspectors will have access to uranium mines and continuous surveillance at uraniummills, where Iran produces yellowcake, for 25 years.

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Inspectors will have continuous surveillance of Iran’s centrifuge rotors and bellows production and storage facilities for 20 years. Iran’s centrifuge manufacturing base will be frozen and under continuous surveillance.

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All centrifuges and enrichment infrastructure removed from Fordow and Natanz will be placed under continuous monitoring by the IAEA.

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A dedicated procurement channel for Iran’s nuclear program will be established tomonitor and approve, on a case by case basis, the supply, sale, or transfer to Iran o 

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certain nuclear-related and dual use materials and technology – an additionaltransparency measure.

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Iran has agreed to implement the Additional Protocol of the IAEA, providing the IAEAmuch greater access and information regarding Iran’s nuclear program, including bothdeclared and undeclared facilities.

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Iran will be required to grant access to the IAEA to investigate suspicious sites orallegations of a covert enrichment facility, conversion facility, centrifuge productionfacility, or yellowcake production facility anywhere in the country.

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Iran has agreed to implement Modified Code 3.1 requiring early notification ofconstruction of new facilities.

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Iran will implement an agreed set of measures to address the IAEA’s concerns regardingthe Possible Military Dimensions (PMD) of its program.

Reactors and Reprocessing

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Iran has agreed to redesign and rebuild a heavy water research reactor in Arak, based on adesign that is agreed to by the P5+1, which will not produce weapons grade plutonium,and which will support peaceful nuclear research and radioisotope production.

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The original core of the reactor, which would have enabled the production of significantquantities of weapons-grade plutonium, will be destroyed or removed from the country.

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Iran will ship all of its spent fuel from the reactor out of the country for the reactor’slifetime.

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Iran has committed indefinitely to not conduct reprocessing or reprocessing research anddevelopment on spent nuclear fuel.

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Iran will not accumulate heavy water in excess of the needs of the modified Arak reactor,and will sell any remaining heavy water on the international market for 15 years.

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Iran will not build any additional heavy water reactors for 15 years.

Sanctions

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Iran will receive sanctions relief, if it verifiably abides by its commitments.

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U.S. and E.U. nuclear-related sanctions will be suspended after the IAEA has verifiedthat Iran has taken all of its key nuclear-related steps. If at any time Iran fails to fulfill itscommitments, these sanctions will snap back into place.

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The architecture of U.S. nuclear-related sanctions on Iran will be retained for much ofthe duration of the deal and allow for snap-back of sanctions in the event of significantnon-performance.

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All past UN Security Council resolutions on the Iran nuclear issue will be liftedsimultaneous with the completion, by Iran, of nuclear-related actions addressing all keyconcerns (enrichment, Fordow, Arak, PMD, and transparency).

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However, core provisions in the UN Security Council resolutions – those that deal withtransfers of sensitive technologies and activities – will be re-established by a new UNSecurity Council resolution that will endorse the JCPOA and urge its fullimplementation. It will also create the procurement channel mentioned above, which willserve as a key transparency measure. Important restrictions on conventional arms and ballistic missiles, as well as provisions that allow for related cargo inspections and assetfreezes, will also be incorporated by this new resolution.

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A dispute resolution process will be specified, which enables any JCPOA participant, toseek to resolve disagreements about the performance of JCPOA commitments.

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If an issue of significant non-performance cannot be resolved through that process, thenall previous UN sanctions could be re-imposed.

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U.S. sanctions on Iran for terrorism, human rights abuses, and ballistic missiles willremain in place under the deal.

Phasing

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For ten years, Iran will limit domestic enrichment capacity and research and development – ensuring a breakout timeline of at least one year. Beyond that, Iran will be bound by itslonger-term enrichment and enrichment research and development plan it shared with theP5+1.

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For fifteen years, Iran will limit additional elements of its program. For instance, Iran willnot build new enrichment facilities or heavy water reactors and will limit its stockpile ofenriched uranium and accept enhanced transparency procedures.

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Important inspections and transparency measures will continue well beyond 15 years.Iran’s adherence to the Additional Protocol of the IAEA is permanent, including itssignificant access and transparency obligations. The robust inspections of Iran’s uraniumsupply chain will last for 25 years.

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Even after the period of the most stringent limitations on Iran’s nuclear program, Iranwill remain a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which prohibits Iran’sdevelopment or acquisition of nuclear weapons and requires IAEA safeguards on its

MUSLIMS TO OUTNUMBER CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE 'IN 50 YEARS'

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Shifts in the world’s major religions will see Islam growing faster than any other faith, with the number of Muslims nearly equaling that of Christians by 2050.

A new Pew Research Center study finds that with the exception of Buddhists, the world’s major religions will all see an increase in numbers by 2050, although some will make up a smaller percentage from today. Muslims are the only major religious group projected to increase faster than the world’s population as a whole.

Over the coming four decades, Christianity will remain the world’s largest religious affiliation, but Islam will see a major increase that will make the two religions nearly equal in numbers by 2050. In 2010, Christianity was by far the world’s largest religion, with 2.2 billion followers of the faith and composing nearly one-third (31 percent) of the Earth’s 6.9 billion people. Islam was second, with 1.6 billion adherents, or 23 percent of the world’s population.

If current fertility rates and youth populations continue to grow at their current rate, Muslims will make up 10 percent of Europe’s overall population by 2050. Islam is expected to nearly match Christianity in the coming four decades as a result of a “comparatively youthful” population with high fertility rates.

If current trends continue, Muslims will outnumber Christians worldwide around 2070.

Muslims worldwide are projected to see a 73 percent increase while Christians will rise about half that fast (35 percent). The world’s overall population is predicted to rise to 9.3 billion by 2050, also with a 35 percent rate of increase over the same time period.

In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters (78 percent) of the population to about two-thirds (66 percent) by 2050.

Muslims, “other religions” and those unaffiliated with religion will see the largest increases in North America. The religiously unaffiliated are expected to rise from 16 percent to more than one-quarter of the population, 26 percent. And by 2050, the U.S. will have more Muslims (2.1 percent of the general population) than people who identify as Jewish (1.4 percent).

Europe is predicted to be the only region with a decline in its total population. Europe’s Christian population will see a loss of about 100 million people in the coming decades, falling from 553 million to 454 million people. Although Christians will remain Europe’s largest religious group, they are expected to decrease similarly to U.S. Christians, dropping from nearly three-quarters to less than two-thirds of the overall population.

Worldwide, Muslims have the highest fertility rate with an average of 3.1 children per woman – far exceeding the replacement level needed to maintain a stable population. Christians are second, with an average 2.7 children per woman. In 2010, more than one-quarter (27 percent) of the world’s total population was under the age of 15. And Muslims comprised an even higher percentage of this youthful group at more than one-third (34 percent), compared to 27 percent of Christians under age 15.

Pew’s “The Future of World Religions: Population Growth and Projections, 2010-2050” analysis estimates that four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa by the middle of this century.

IDF Searching for 20-Year-Old who Entered Arab Village: Possible Kidnapping!

The name of the missing man for Tehillim is Niv ben Yael. Meir, a cousin of the missing man calls on the tzibur to daven hard for his cousin as “We burn and rid ourselves of our chametz”. He adds that Niv told his mother earlier in the day that he is traveling to Hebron to daven in the Machpelah.
Large police and IDF forces are scouring the area of Judea between Kiryat Arba and the Arab village of Beit Anoun, after a man around the age of 20 went missing in the region.

At 4:17 p.m., a call to the 100 emergency hotline of the Judea and Samaria district police was received from an Israeli youth, who said he and his friend had gotten stuck in their car due to a punctured tire between Kiryat Arba and Beit Anoun.

The friend of the youth who called went to request work tools from the Arab village so as to change the tire, but never returned, and the caller said he had been waiting for half-an-hour.

Police and IDF forces are combing the area for the missing man, who is a resident of Be'er Sheva.

Police reported later that they estimate the man likely entered Beit Anoun not to borrow tools as was initially reported, but rather as part of some unspecified criminal act.

The search for him is made all the more difficult given that the man left his cell phone in the front seat of the car.

Concerns are high that he may have been attacked or abducted by residents of the Arab village, which is known as being hostile and a hotbed to members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups.

Har Hevron Regional Council head Yohai Damari said of the massive deployment for the search that it is "a measure familiar to us from similar incidents that occurred in the region just recently."

"I imagine that we'll receive a clearer picture in the coming hours," said Damari. "I pray for good news."

The incident comes just hours after an Arab terrorist stabbed an IDF soldier in the arm and head at the Oranit Checkpoint in Samaria.

Despite having been stabbed repeatedly the soldier, First Sergeant Yoav Leitman of the Paratroopers Regiment, managed to grapple the terrorist to the ground and subdue him.

Have the Talk Today: Speak to Your Kids about Safety

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz

We are all busy before Pesach, so let’s get right to the point.

Please see to it that you speak to your children about child safety/abuse prevention before Pesach if you’ve never had that discussion with them, and give them a refresher talk if you have.

It is literally a matter of life and death that you have such a conversation.

Year after year we get a significant spike in abuse-related calls to our child safety helpline immediately before, during, and following the Pesach and Sukkot holidays. Why? Because our kids are in a less structured environment at home, in shul and at play, and are also exposed to a wide range of children, teenagers, and adults who they don’t come in contact with all year round. If you need convincing, just tally the number of people your kids interact with during a regular school week, and then do the same for the week of Pesach.

Thankfully, there is now an unprecedented awareness of the importance of child safety/abuse prevention in our community and we have come to the painful understanding that we are not immune to the ravages of abuse and molestation.

But, to be perfectly frank, the average person in the street (probably you) still cannot believe that seemingly normal, well-respected people – including close family members – can do unspeakable things to vulnerable children. This is a classic case of cognitive dissonance where your mind knows something to be true, but your heart just can’t accept it as fact, thereby leaving you in total denial.

Case in point: this time of year, caring, decent parents are still allowing their young children to collect charity door-to-door completely unsupervised.

L’ma’an Hashem; haven’t we learned anything from all the tragedies and ruined lives of kids who have been abused? At least in previous years, many or most of us thought our community was somehow immune from problems of this nature. What is the excuse now? (FYI; have a look at Girl Scouts Safety 

Guidelines for Cookie Sales.)

My dear friends, this lack of supervision is simply unconscionable knowing what we now know about the scope and magnitude of child abuse nowadays.

I plead with you to take this matter seriously and do everything in your power to keep your kids safe by seeing to it that your children are supervised properly over Pesach while at shul or during play time, and by having effective, research-based child safety talks with them that will educate and empower your children without frightening them.

There are four basic messages that children need to internalize in order for any abuse prevention program to be effective:

• No secrets from parents
• Your body belongs to you
• Good touching/bad touching
• No one has the right to make you feel uncomfortable

Please educate yourself before speaking to your children so that yourdiscussions generate light and not heat. Additionally, it is important for you to know – and to share with your children – that although “stranger danger” is a genuine concern, the vast majority of molesters are people well-known to and trusted by the children.

We encourage you to take advantage of free, online resources that we at The Center for Jewish Family Life posted to help educate you about effective child safety training:

Providing Your Children with the Skills and Tools to Protect Themselves is an excellent article by Dr. David Pelcovitz and our 3 short videos on child safety education, Safety Video #1, Safety Video #2 andSafety Video #3 will serve you well in beginning the education process. Additionally, you can download the read-aloud version of our Let's Stay Safe Child Safety Book for the most minimal contribution.

If you suspect that your child may have been molested, please seek the counsel of a licensed mental health professional, preferably before you speak to your children. If your child was, G-d forbid molested, please report it immediately to the authorities.

Thank you for taking the time to read these lines, and kindly take a minute to forward this article to others. To be sure, the only way our children and grandchildren will be safe, is when each and every one of them is well educated about child safety.

Best wishes for a Chag Kosher V’samayach

Yakov Horowitz

Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, the Director of The Center for Jewish Family Life, received The Covenant Award in recognition of his lifelong contribution to Jewish education and his advocacy for child abuse victims. The Hebrew version of The Center for Jewish Family Life’s best-selling Let's Stay Safe Child Safety Book is scheduled for release in May 2015.