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Eliminate their demands for change. it might take a while to get to that point, but this is something the country's moving forward. >> if they move ahead, will that backfire on u.s. and the west in terms of building support for the ahminedjad -- will they have more support because of the normal, nationalistic impulse to want to rally around the regime against foreign -- would be perceived as foreign intrusion? >> it's very difficult to predict. normally, iran is a country that's very hard to predict. i've heard different arguments for and against sanctions. people who say that these sanctions ...

Kinds of problems. how problematic is this for the military men and women? >> i think the fact that karzai the making some really outlandish statements in public reflects both bad handling on the part of the united states diplomatic mission for how we deal with this guy. we can't be critical in public of karzai non-stop and not expect him to push back. he invited ahminedjad to come in in response to his first perceived slight by the u.s. diplomatic mission. now, another problem of course is general mcchrystal is trying to stop is killing of innocent civilians for any reason. he's got some extr...

Meantime, the claim that it is enriching uranium at a high rate is sbg questioned. larry, good morning to you. so, lots of back and forth this week about the level at which uranium is being enriched in iran, but the bottom line is how close is iran to making a nuclear weapon because is that it's ultimate goal? >> well, i think it's ultimate goal is to show that it can and get leverage from that both at home and abroad. this statement that ahminedjad, the president made, is just rhetoric more than anything. this is their july 4th, if you will, and hentd the show the progress that had been made....

Hit them where it hurts right now. >> well, we are. this is what you want to do. you want to put sanctions on the revolutionary guard, this 100,000 group of people that protect it is regime because a lot of them have business interests around the world. the last thing you want to do is have sanctions that would protect the people. you have the so-called green movement. 30 to 40% of the people in the country now are challenging the legitimacy of ahminedjad and the ruling clerics and that's the best hope for the west in the long-term is that those people come to power and iran becomes a responsi...

Tehran university demonstrated against the closing down of several reformist papers. in 2005, ahminedjad escalated tensions with the west. in fiery speeches, the hard lined conservative raged against the u.s., israel, in what he called western imperialism. the peaceful nuclear program pressed on despite the concern iran was after a bomb. but ahminedjad's opponents criticized him for mismanaging the economy. one of his opponents was former prime minister mousavi. ahminedjad's landslide victory sparked widespread protests by a movement that still claims the election was rigged and the