production, enrichment? certainly they are getting very close to it. they ve been pursuing this for over 20 years. its the regime s number one strategic objective is to obtain a nuclear weapon for the simple reason it guarantees the legacy of the regime, and that means they are willing to take all sorts of risks to get that weapon, short of losing the regime. that s why they are negotiations now as a ploy to delay the program not delay the program, delay the sanctions if they can get some concessions on it and they ve done this on and off for the last ten years. juliet: yeah, i mean the secretary says he thinks we can achieve a quote, diplomatic solution. we are talking about an iran regime that consistently tphraupbts. it knows the rules and consistently breaks the rules and breaks agreements. well, i m somewhat pessimistic about a diplomatic solution was that means the iranians would have to concede that they are not going to build
of aiding netanyahu s self-professed quest to insure that there s no nuclear capability in terms of iran. pro israeli organizations in the united states have pushed tough sanctions against iran. i don t think that s necessarily in and of itself a bad thing. the problem is if you have sanctions without a diplomatic alternative. the sanctions have to be pushing iran towards aรง diplomatic solution. if you think that the military option is a very bad option. as it turns out most of the military leadership in both israel and the united states seem to believe. i think the real question here is is the political climate in the united states and i think the republicans here are especially, the republican in congress will be key will the republicans in congress support any plausible diplomatic deal that we could cut with iran. if they don t, then our only choices are essentially iran going full speed towards at least nuclear capability or military action. deemi, is there groundwork in