expected, really bites hard into the iranian nuclear program for quite a long time. i think as you heard in the hearing, a lot of the objection was really directed at the idea that iran would, in fact, get economic relief and concern about non-nuclear dimensions in terms of using those resources. so the main objections that i heard to the deal go as follows, that people like alan cooperman who say the centrifuges first of all there should have been more centrifuges disconnected, and more importantly, they re not destroyed, but merely disconnected. that iran still has in a storage room somewhere these thousands of centrifuges it could reconnect very quickly and therefore your breakout time scenarios are unreasonable, they could much more quickly race to the amount of material to make a bomb. is that fair? that is actually incorrect.
until 2012 and intend to resume and expand these ties. finally, some who argue against the deal believe that the united states should simply stand firm and iran will either cave or crumble. anyone who dealt with iranians knows they are a proud nationalistic people. the islamic republic has endured more than three decades of u.s. sanctions, a nine-year war against iraq in which saddam hussein used chemical weapons against them and various international pressure. if tiny cuba and north korea haven t caved after decades of much greater isolation, it s hard to imagine iran doing so. as for the belief that the islamic republic will collapse soon, there s little evidence for this hope. obama s critics say he s gambling that iran will comply with the accord. in fact, the administration is making a calculated bet that iran will be constrained by international pressure,
wall street journal titled sanctions won t work against iran, the bush administration s ambassador to the u.n., john bolton, argued they d never go along with such sanctions and if they did it wouldn t change iran s behavior anyway. now iran says these same sanctions are wondrously effective if only the administration would keep them on indefinitely. the crucial reasons the sanctions have been so effective, more than critics expected, is they are comprehensive, including china, russia and europe. there is a profound gap between america and the world in the perception of these sanctions. for many in the united states, the sanctions are a mechanism to punish an evil regime. for most of the other countries involved, the sanctions were enacted specifically to bring iran to the nuclear negotiating table. these countries would not allow them to be turned into a permanent mechanism to strangle iran. they all have relations with iran, traded with it freely
breakout time, there are many ways to achieve that and different countries weighted things differently. i think in the end, in that case our scientists from all six countries worked very, very well together. i think the cohesion of these six countries, when we obviously have let s say with russia, we obviously have our major differences at the moment. nevertheless, the cohesion of this group in the commitment to seeing that iran will not have a nuclear weapon future is really in itself i think a major outcome of the negotiation. that cohesion, of course, really ups the ante in the current congressional discussion. if we were to undermine this agreement at this stage, we would have significant problems with other major powers. are you confident that, were iran to violate the terms of this deal, it would not turn into a kind of endless
the implications for coastal cities everywhere are staggering. could it be accurate? after world war ii japan vowed never to wage war. it s even enshrined in the nation s constitution, but now the land of the rising sun wants to dial that back, and maybe it is time. i ll explain. also, bringing back extinct animals. hasn t the jurassic park movies shown us it s a bad idea? apparently not. i ll talk to a scientist who says bringing back extinct animals would be good for the globe. first, here is my take. let s imagine that the opponents of the nuclear agreement with iran get their way.