(CNN) — Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver a major speech on the Iran nuclear deal at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday, CNN has learned.
Kerry will use the speech to defend the merits of the agreement and respond to its critics.
During an interview with CNN in Anchorage ahead of a conference of Arctic nations, the secretary pushed back on the notion that the Iranians would be able to self-inspect at Parchin, as Republicans in Congress have alleged.
“We are satisfied that we will be able to have a process which can get us the answers,” Kerry said.
“If they are not accountable in the way that we expect them to be with appropriate access then they would be in material breach of the agreement and subject to any and all options available to the United States.”
Kerry flew to Anchorage to help deliver President Barack Obama’s message on climate change to foreign ministers gathered in Alaska for this week’s GLACIER conference.
“We still have time to pull back from the total precipice of absolute catastrophe that threatens life itself on the planet providing that we do the things that the President and others are talking about,” Kerry said.
The Secretary of State added that global warming skeptics in the Republican Party like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz should travel to Alaska to see the impacts of climate change first hand.
“Ask any Alaskan. I think people in Alaska will tell Donald Trump and tell Ted Cruz it’s happening. And all they have to do is come here and open their minds and their eyes and their ears and listen, look. And they will see the impacts of what is happening,” Kerry said.
Kerry denied the administration is guilty of climate hypocrisy after its recent approval of Shell’s application to begin oil and natural gas drilling in the arctic.
He also stated that he will not punt a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to the next administration, but he declined to signal how soon a decision might come.
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