and do you think this renewed pressure, then, can force, can pressure iran into renewed negotiations? well, this is where history is imperative because there are only a handful of times in the four-decade history of the islamic republic of iran where iran s leaders have done an about-face. the iran-iraq war is one of them. in the first 7 1/2 years of the eight-year conflict khomeini, the founding father of the islamic revolution, said war, war, war until victory. his goal like president bush was to topple the baathist rejeechl saddam hussein in baghdad. he failed. but only after immense cost and immense pressure did he do a 180 and accept a u.n. ceasefire resolution which he like toend accepting which he likened to drinking from a poison chalice. the goal now is to get khamenei, khomeini s successor, to feet pain of the successions and to come to the negotiating table even though he is today saying he will not come and talk with america. so it needs to be maximum pressure for ira