iranians they had until july 20 to stop enriching uranium to use for building bombs. they didn t. everybody said in the beginning of this, the sanctions won t work, the sanctions regime won t hold, iran won t do as it s supposed to, and they re dead wrong. everything iran was supposed to do, they ve eye. iran is going to get access to nearly $3 billion in their sanction access, but some disagree with freeing up those frozen funds. i m not a big proponent to paying to negotiate, and the $2.7 billion we ve given to iran in exchange for them to negotiate is pretty preposterous
iran. dismantle those elements that can make a nuclear weapon and remove them from iran. that s the formula. mark regev, thank you, sir, for your time today. we ll continue to monitor the situation and watch as your prime minister prepares to speak to the country there. thank you, sir. my pleasure. thank you for having me. well, as bodies continue to be recovered and tensions over access to the crash site heat up, they are blaming the passenger plane downing on ukraine separatists who had russian military help. john kerry appeared on five talk shows. he says the u.s. military has been engaged, and he also calls for tougher sanctions saying it does require russia s full cooperation as well as
with the extension of time, we ought to bring back the me n menendez kirk sanctions. even the president is worried about the iranians. what will they do with the time they have? they will likely make a nuclear weapon with the time they have. if the united states doesn t put into place effects of non-military sanctions to make sure americans have a strong reason to end their night, there is allying with iran. why are they adamant about shutting things down now? why do they think it will lead to nuclear weapons in the hands of irani leaders?
well, first let me say in terms of israel and the palestinia palestinians, i agree with everything my colleague pete king said. we should never forget hamas is a terrorist group, and you have to fight terrorist groups. i m not particularly bothered we have a four-month extension. i think in many ways it works to our advantage because sanctions are still on iran and their economy is hurting, and it s sanctions that brought them to the table. but i think we have to be very, very tough with them. secretary kerry has said no deal is better than a bad deal, and i agree with that. the question is what do we consider a good deal and a bad deal? iran is the largest supporter of terrorism of any country in the world. when you look at hamas and gaza now and you look at where they ve gotten their weaponry, most of it has come from iran. so we should be under no illusion that these are bad people. they have not been willing to talk about lowering their
mistake or unerrone error. one bad day israel could be destroyed. to me, hamas is what al qaeda was to us in 9/11. they re an evil terrorist group and gang, and israel has the absolute right to do all it can to defend itself and take any action against hamas, and any civilian deaths are because of hamas and the way they ve positioned their rockets and their forces. congressman engle, obviously israel is in a very tough neighborhood. they ve got issues with hamas and leading now to this offensive they ve got. but at the same time they re also very concerned with what s going on with iran, these talks that the deal to negotiate has now been kicked to november. i believe you had a chance to talk with secretary kerry a little bit about this this week and about the possibility of sanctions. what do you make of the situation as it now stands with iran and these nuclear talks?