deal, is secondary if not tertia tertiary. does he have time? that s very presumptuous, given next year. because i think it would take a lot of time to get there. where you have and where we are in the moment with the sanctions, where they are at their peak, farther than president obama had taken them in 2011, 12, 13, where they are now, the iranian response and the fact we don t have the europeans on board, frankly the europeans don t know what they re doing with iran means that we re not headed towards negotiations at any time soon. where are we when it comes to allies? you look at who might have been the allies who backed us there. it is not europe. it is not core of allies we might have had in the past. had does it mean for iran policy in the white house more generally? the u.s. can t operate unilaterally, globally, any way on any policy. we need to have alliances across the globe, we specifically need to have alliances with western