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>> reporter: lavrov left the talks and is on a preplanned visit to tajikistan where he will meet his tajik counterparts. the russian foreign minister not going back to talks unless theres serious chance of a final agreement. he ended his last visit on a positive note saying that a framework agreement has essentially been agreed between the foreign ministers and is waiting for it to be set down on paper. from a russian point of view at least officially, the nuts and bolts of this agreement to pre...

Nodding, you agree with most of the things senator graham said, but im going there seems to be two discussions here in washington one about iran with senator graham and one about the prime minister coming to the united states to speak to congress. which argument is most important? >> well, i think clearly the iranian threat is paramount. the deal thats being contemplated right now its an unmitigated disaster. its one of those events in history that 100 years from now, people are going to ask wha...

The deal, is false. we dont know everything thats true, but we know what the administration itself has leaked over the past year, as a demonstration of their pride and what a great deal theyre cutting. look, i wouldnt trust the current government of iran with any nuclear program at all. you know this is technically very complicated. but our fundamental mistake, the administrations fundamental mistake was conceding that iran had any right to a peaceful nuclear program to begin with. and certainly...

Welcome back. another foreign policy crisis for the obama administration. iran and six world powers agree to continue talks for four more months after failing to meet the july 20th deadline to reach a deal on curbing the iranian nuclear program, in exchange for ending sanctions. were live now with more on this story. hi, molly. >> hi, heather. the talks have been extended until november 24th. but one of the main sticking points is irans uranium enrichment program. iran wants to produce more than...

Will be using a different form of materials. previous nuclear tests have used plutonium as the fuel but they have a uranium enrichment program. they are planning a test with uranium. the second possibility is that they may have a smaller device, a device where they compressed that figures materials down into a size small enough to fit on top of a ballistic missile. if thats the case thats very worrisome because that will give them the full capability they need. that will give them an actual war ...

Can have access to peaceful civilian nuclear energy, but that doesnt require an industrial unit uranium enrichment program, a heavy water reactor, advanced centrifuges, and it certainly doesnt require nuclear facilities dug deep into mountains. >> all right, so, now know what the people in power think, but where do the american people stand? according to one survey conducted by gfk polling for "foreign policy" magazine, support for a two-state solution is surprisingly tepid. just 39% support tha...

Also try listerine® pocketpaks to kill bad breath germs on-the-go. what could be a major step forward in efforts to limit irans nuclear program took place yesterday when president obama announced on january 20th there will be a temporary deal to restrict the uranium enrichment program. theyll stop enriching uranium above 5% and will allow daily inspections from the international atomic energy agency. iran will receive temporary sanctions relief to the tune of 6 to $7 billion. it is not all sm...

Sanctions within six months unless iran ships all stockpiles of enriched uranium out of the country and dismantles both its heavy water plutonium reactor and uranium enrichment program, two separate paths to a nuclear bomb. >> 30 years, they have been one of the more chaotic, mayhem-causing regimes on the planet. why would you want to let the ayatollahs have the ability to enrich and hope the u.n. can stop them? thats not an acceptable out come. >> reporter: the administration is calling for non...

Your show is coming up in ten minutes. so the president said in conversation yesterday the brookings institute friday actually that hes okay with modest uranium enrichment program. how is that expected to t ed te? >> not particularly well. i do get the stlens is a willingness to back off a little over the six-month period, at least in terms of sanctions. but in terms of criticism, i think that continues. this is one of the things that israel has raised red flags about saying, you know, dmind of ...

Trend. i think it sees the road ahead now for it to get nuclear weapons at a time of its choosing. >> i know you feel this is not a good deal. in your words this is abject surrender. is it that bad? what makes it surrender? >> there is one absolutely critical point in this agreement. you can argue about all four pages of it. its a very flaud document. one critical point is that it allows iran to keep enriching uranium and it contemplates an end state that iran will have a uranium enrichment prog...