negotiator from 2003 to 2005. and he followed the exact same playbook. you calm down tensions and you make a few conciliatory out reaches to everybody. what you are doing is you are buying time for the iranians to continue moving and marching forward. he bragged about this when he finished being chief negotiator. it is one of the places they are enriching uranium. i think the absolute worst situation is what he outlined and what you don t want is to take off these sanctions and even worse maybe suggest that it is okay for them to do reactor grade nuclear work because that is ultimately going to be turned into a nuclear weapons program. what do you think are the chances that the west will be played? will be played? if you look at history north korea struck a deal in 2005 to say that they were going to do
to continue moving and marching forward. he bragged about this when he finished being chief negotiator. it is one of the places they are enriching uranium. i think the absolute worst situation is what he outlined and what you don t want is to take off these sanctions and even worse maybe suggest that it is okay for them to do reactor grade nuclear work because that is ultimately going to be turned into a nuclear weapons program. what do you think are the chances that the west will be played? will be played? if you look at history north korea struck a deal in 2005 to say that they were going to do away with the nuclear capability. i think that is a stark lesson for americans. on the other hand i agree with the rest of the panel.
to continue moving and marching forward. he bragged about this when he finished being chief negotiator. it is one of the places they are enriching uranium. i think the absolute worst situation is what he outlined and what you don t want is to take off these sanctions and even worse maybe suggest that it is okay for them to do reactor grade nuclear work because that is ultimately going to be turned into a nuclear weapons program. what do you think are the chances that the west will be played? will be played? if you look at history north korea struck a deal in 2005 to say that they were going to do away with the nuclear capability. i think that is a stark lesson for americans. on the other hand i agree with
now they are well into the second stage. and, by next spring, at most, by next summer, at current enrichment rates they will have fin eshed the medium enrichment and move onto the final stage. from there it is only a few months, possibly a few weeks before they get enough enriched-uranium for the first bomb. jenna: based on that timeline, this summer come up in 2013, ambassador. do you see the actions only as we have a nuclear iran, or, israel attacks? yes, i think those are basically the two options. you know, actually prime minister netanyahu made it more complicated than it is. based on the reactor grade enriched-uranium that iran now has, i think most experts believe it could take four to six weeks to enrich enough to weapons-grade levels to fashion one weapon. but here s the thing. iran is not in a hurry to
signify if anything. ambassador john bolton has spent a decade in efforts to keep nuclear weapons out of iran s hands. what do you make of this? it sounds like the timetable fear these meetings was sped up. is something going to happen in advance of wednesday? i believe the obama administration and our friends in europe will do everything they can to reach a quote-unquote deal during these negotiations. we can see the outlines based on allowing iran to enrich uranium up to reactor grade but foregoing enrichment beyond that point in exchange for what iran probably wants which relief from economic sanctions. i think that s a bad deal but i think the administration want it and will try to achieve it. shannon: even though they said the sanctions don t hurt us, we laugh at them, do you think they