will be a major achievement. >> matt, i want to bring in the point there's a larger context here. there's the internal politics in iran. there's the internal politics in the united states. then there's the politics of the region. i want to read something you wrote. quote, while the western powers don't want iran to have a nuclear weapon, many other regional stake holders want iran to be weak. if you want iran to be weak, the risk isn't so much that the deal won't work as that the deal will work. >> well, yeah. i mean, i wrote that because these sanctions really are crippling iran. and a risk for sort of the other countries in it the region is that iran will comply with the terms and over time we will get a better deal. they will disarm their nuclear program in some meaningful way. and their economy will be able to start growing again. you know, a country with an advanced nuclear weapons science that's otherwise completely impoverished is in a lot of ways not an influential regional actor. >> like north korea. >> exactly. if iran manages to reintegrate with the global system, that