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"I think they realize that there's going to be tremendous costs and consequences and implications if they were to decide to go for a 'breakout,'" Brennan said on "Fox News Sunday," referring to Iran amassing enough of the materials necessary to build a nuclear bomb rather than use those materials for civil energy.
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"There are a number of things that the United States has available to it to prevent Iran from getting a bomb," Brennan said. "President Obama has made it very clear that we are going to prevent Iran from having that type of nuclear weapon that they may have been going on track to obtain. So if they decide to go down that route they know that they will do so at their own peril."
The United States and several other countries are working quickly to finalize a pact that would thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions, at least temporarily, and in return ease sanctions that the Middle Eastern country has faced in recent years.
But Republicans in Congress -- as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- have questioned whether Iran will uphold its end of the deal.
Brennan said he is "confident that our intelligence capabilities are sufficiently robust and that we have a good understanding of what the Iranian nuclear program entails."
His comment came as host Chris Wallace asked about Iranian opposition groups' claims that there is a secret nuclear facility that the West hasn't known about.
"It's not an issue or a question of trusting the Iranians on this," Brennan said, adding that both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are comfortable with U.S. demands on nuclear inspections as part of the deal.
"I think we've gone to school on some of those developments over the last decade or so. We can now have a better plan and opportunity to verify some of the things that they are saying that they're going to do and not do," he said.
Brennan also declined to call Iran an ally when it comes to combating ISIS.
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Ali Marvi, the head of an energy committee inside the Iranian parliament, said Iran would be influential on the world oil stage if an agreement is reached.
"Black gold prices are currently growing in the world markets and sanctions relief on Iran will pave the way for more exports," he said Monday. "Therefore, this [nuclear] issue will affect world [oil] prices."
Members of the Republican-led Congress in the United States said they would be reluctant to lift sanctions on Iran without any verifiable assurances the path to a nuclear weapon would be blocked for the Islamic Republic.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returns this week to Lusanne, Switzerland, to take part in the multilateral talks on Iran's nuclear program, which the country maintains is for peaceful purposes. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said during a Monday press briefing there was unity inside the negotiating room.
"I understand there's lots of talk publicly about this issue," she said. "What we're focused on is what actually happens in the negotiating room and seeing if we can get to an agreement."
On the stance taken by Republican leaders, Mehdi Hosseni, the head of the contracts division at the Iranian Oil Minister, said last week U.S. oil companies would be rewarded if they took a stance against their position.
Iranian crude oil exports are restricted to around 1 million barrels per day and only to six nations under the terms of a joint action plan enacted in November 2013.
Marvi said he expected oil prices for the year would level out at around $85 per barrel, about $20 above other estimates.
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