Iran nuclear deal. President obama held a press conference to answer questions about the idea and rejected to idea it leaves tehran on the brink of the bomb and argued the other opportunity is war. He addressed israels concerns after Benjamin Netanyahu called it a mistake. Here are a couple minutes of the remarks israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to iran. You have a large country with a significant military concerns are missiles pointed toward tel aviv. So i think they are very good reasons why israelis are nervous about irans position in the world generally. I said this to the Prime Minister and directly to the israeli people. I also said they are compounded if iran gets a Nuclear Weapon. For the objections or for the Republican Leadership that is already spoken none of them have presented to me or the American People a better alternative. I am hearing talk of this is a historically bad deal and threaten israeli and the world and threaten the united states. I
Continued the calls for the destruction of israel. These are the people we just allowed, are all lowg in the process to more weapons and to become nuclear weaponscapable. Just last week iran called, as it has for decades for the destruction of israel. And the death to america. In fact, as irans Supreme Leader stood by calling for the need to fight the u. S. , even if there is an agreement. I dont know that weve ever entered into an agreement with another country before that while we enter into the agreement they say and by the way, no matter whether there is agreement or not we want to continue to see the u. S. As an enemy that we need to fight. This deal undermines the security of our friends and allies it legitimatizes irans unapologetic sponsorship of terrorism throughout the middle east. Interesting what could be included, by the way mr. President , what couldnt be included. Iran has repeatedly refused to abide by International Agreements that require inspection of Nuclear Faciliti
Security Energy Project there. For iraq and afghanistan and has been working on this book for several years and why he decided to write the book. Thanks for spending your time with us. Looking at this intersection with energy so thank you very much for that. Bringing back directly to iraq but after my time how the world needs to be understood by the Foreign Policy lands. From that time i was working in government from the form policy perspective in to meet those saudi officials and i tended to look at that. That seems to be working now. I cannot take any credit for that. We saw the saudi resistance to the regime in baghdad clearly that was some of it with that crisis we can fully appreciate the high eight whale prices they had no rivals in that department becoming challengers 12 Million Barrels a day eventually and from that the need to look at a Foreign Policy lens. At that point there wasnt all energy windfall. What do you mean by the windfall . I wanted to call the book originally s
Business molds designed to lift poor communities out of poverty. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Ing television for serious readers. They are running the Global Security project there. The Deputy National security assistant for iraq and afghanistan and spent some time as an advisor in iraq. And has been working on this book for several years times change while you had been working on them. Maybe will talk about how you decided and why did you write the book what keyed it off. Let me begin by saying good afternoon and thank you so much for spending your lunch hour with us in a special thanks to dan for doing this. He has been a source of advice, support and inspiration as i have really moved into this world in looking at this intersection. Thank you very much for that. My impetus for writing the book its almost on reflecting after my time in iraq as to how much the world needs to be understood by a foreignpolicy lunch an
Professor at the Harvard Kennedy school runs say Global Energy project in a special assistant to george w. Bush and a contributing assistant for iraq and afghanistan and spend some time as an adviser in iraq and working on this book several years times change but maybe we will start first why you decided on this book for what started this. Could afternoon thanks for spending your lunch hour with us, dan has been a source of advice and inspiration moving into this world with energy and politics. But my impetus for writing the book is almost on reflecting after my time has how much the world needs to be understood and then 2. Back and that is from the Foreign Policy perspective. And then to meet those saudi officials to leave maurer supportive of baghdad. Is seems to be working now but it is interesting to see that saudi resistance regime and that is motivated by a sectarian differences. And that what people did not fully appreciate that the time that they were the only holders of capaci