Assistant to the secretary of state for Iranian Affairs during an earlier effort during the beginning of the Obama Administration to get this nuclear deal. Before joining the foreign service, he taught in iran as a peace corps volunteer. For 444 days from 1979 to 1981 he was a guest of the previous ayatollah in tehran when he was held hostage. John will have a lot to say on what this means for u. S. Iran relations. Without further ado, we will start. Cliff, i will start with you. I want to get your general impressions of what has been announced and the likely obstacles that might be on the horizon. Mr. Kupchan so far so good. Any deal will be an ugly deal. It is not a pretty deal. There are some technical problems with it, theres a lot we dont know, but it meets the basic structure of a deal that curbs irans access to Nuclear Weapons and provides state sanctions relief. Obstacles . There are a lot of obstacles to the deal. The first, to me, is there are a lot of substantive gaps betwee
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