ambitious deal than the obama administration demanded of you, we re prepared to make one. that s where we are now. i m interested that you brought that up because the president said, i m willing to talk. iran can call me if they want to. president of iran said, we re not going to talk under these circumstances, but not ruling it out completely, i guess. is there any hope for a discussion? there is a possibility. several times in its history, including during the iran/iraq war in the 80s, the iranian leadership basically said, we re not going to jeopardize the 1979 resolution. if we have to compromise, we ll compromise. with the heat on iran economically, the day will come when the supreme leader will say, we have to compromise in order to preserve the revolution. i don t rule that out. we re not there yet, i don t think we re likely heading to war, though we can always m
strategic significantly because if he we feed to they will a big chunk of influence over ike. the administration is making two fundamental here. one is that idea that if you are being really hard headed about this. well if shiite militias are fighting it out with isil in a country like iraq we re all winners. there is a balance of power and it contains. what we learned from the iran/iraq war in the 80s is these countries come out more em boldeneded and capable. they are pretending this is somehow a problem that pertains to iraq and iraq alone, nos to us. the reason we need to confront isis isn t to stand up to government in baghdad. we need to because it is attracting 22 25,000 fighters