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But the united states in order to get concessions, get some kind of relief from the sanctions, perhaps send a message that it can play tough as well from the security perspective, just like the united states is doing. so, this is likewise seems to be a very deliberate move on the iranians part. now, whether it provides some kind of off-ramp to the current tensions or it will just continue to escalate things beyond where they are now, thats i think one of the $64,000 questions. >> yeah, there are...

To build weapons grade material and this is exactly what the iran deal was supposed to prevent is having iran go on this enrichment path. we already think they have enough enriched uranium for two nuclear weapons. weve known that since 2012. we dont want them to add to the stockpile and violate the terms. >> jon: how do we stop them? we remember when north korea we woke up one day and north korea was detonating a nuclear weapon that nobody thought they had. how do we prevent the iranians from ge...

They still want to do business with the iranians. >> julie: theyre saying we will enrich as much as we want. sounds like a child telling a parent that, no, youre not allowed to do that. watch me, im gonna do what i want. the president tweeting about this, saying it defies the deal the u.s. broke away from. israel says that its preparing its military. let me ask you. he said iran was violating $150 billion deal. nuclear deal with the united states and others who paid nothing long before i became ...

The united states. iranians do not want that. this is all ab leverage to get economic relief. i think it will be a small increase to do that. the united states should not overreact to that. call them out, warn them of the seriousness of walking down this path that they intend to walk down. if they get close to weapons grade, theres a red line waiting for them by the israelis and ourselves. dont overreact to something right now thats not all that significant. the iranians would want that reaction...

Uranium, and would have enough capability to go up to weapons grade. they have it and thats a part of the deal. i thought that was a terrible idea. that being said, i think what the united states ought to be doing now is camped out in europe to try to get europe to help us through this problem set. and i think the reason the iranians are doing it now is to try to split the europeans and the u.s. further apart on thchlt remember, the europeans wanted to stay in the deal, didnt like that the u.s. ...

The most major way kind of blowing through the deal that was set in 2015. was it only a matter of time in your mind after the president pulled the u.s. out of the deal that they would be doing something like this? >> first, its hard to ignore the irony of president trump decrying, complaining about the iranians exceeding the threshold established in the agreement of the obama administration which the president has roundly criticized. and i frankly am surprised that the iranians went this long. >...

With a very sensitive program, its very successful, weve got great capabilities, and to talk about this with "the new york times," its criminal. it shouldnt be done. there is more of this we can do, the sanctions are having a definite effect on iran, who is a bad actor. but i am pleased and glad that we pulled back and did not attack iran. this is in the backdrop of almost 18 years of war in the middle east. i dont want to see us go to war with iran, a fourth country. >> harris: i want to get to...

I think it verified something that is a limit, an element of their strategy which is ultimately trump wants negotiations. but bolton and pompeo prefer war. and the further the iranians essentially counter escalate and pressure the united states so that the pressure is not just on iranians, the further they get to the point in which tensions between trump and bolton and pompeo will increase. part of their calculation is as long as they are in that zone in which that tension is there the likelihoo...

But nothing beyond that. what do you think they ultimately do? >> i think what we are concerned about, which will in fact reflect what they may do, we are concerned about the fact that they have got uranium 235 at about 3% level, and in a matter of days, they could bring it to 20%. they could bring it to 90%, and that his weapons grade. so they know that we know that we want them out of that business. what do they do? they are in between us rock and a hard place, as we used to say. they either s...

Sanctions. the question is how we deter iran from taking these very dangerous actions in the persian gulf while we wait for negotiations. pete: how do we because its a bit underreported that iranian is upping uranium enrichment to a point where they could quickly get to weapons grade and that could -- red line is overused but we could reach a point where there is a points notify return. how do we deter them from that? >> right. well, they have been stockpiling low grade uranium and theyre threat...