(CNN) Jake Tapper interviews John Kerry - Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday: "I can absolutely sit here and look you in the eye and I've looked Prime Minister Netanyahu in the eye and said, I believe Israel and the region are safer today then they were before we made this agreement because the [Iranian nuclear] program is stopped and rolled back and we have greater insight and accountability into the program....The bottom line is, we're not losing anything here. If the Iranians do not produce the agreement necessary, then we can put sanctions in in 12 hours, five hours. Congress will pass it like that. We can have new sanctions." "[Regarding a boycott of Israel] I have always opposed boycotts. I even traveled to Vilnius in the last months to meet with 28 foreign ministers of the European Union to argue with them against taking any measures against Israel in order to give us the space to be able to negotiate." "I am not going to stand down with respect to President Obama's commitment to try to find peace in the Middle East....It's between the parties, not us. They're the ones who have to negotiate. And we're doing everything in our power to encourage them to stay at the table."
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