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Out for some even better deal from our point of view and the demand you often here is no uranium enrichment at all, which is simply unrealistic, fail to realize that this team on the other side, the iranian side, president rouhani, foreign minister zarif, and they are, indeed, backed by the supreme leader, the ayatollah, as he's made it clear, that's as good as it's going to get. we cannot expect any iranian leader, the supreme leader or the president or anyone else, to simply fold and say uncle, we give up, so gary's quite right. this is a critical moment. >> now, you spent your career analyz...

If they believe that they face nothing but unrelenting sanctions and punishment for years and years no matter what they do, then they have no incentive to concede at all. and unfortunately, if the congress were to take the step, and this is what secretary kerry and vice president biden have been trying hard to dissuade them from doing, if they were to take the step to add more sanctions, that would be one additional piece of evidence in the iranian eyes that the united states doesn't really want to deal and just wants to punish iran and its economy forever. >> now, gary sick wrote an interesti...

Working very well. they -- they have not made very much progress at all and, of course, saying for years iran is a nuclear nation. he can announce that every time there is a celebration. the real is nothing much has happened. if they produced a gram of 20% enriched uranium, hooray. it is not a great accomplishment, frankly. >> to be continued, professor gary sick. thank you for joining us. >> always a pleasure. i also spoke with the senior iranian p diplomat who defected to the west. iran's counsel general in norway. what about when yous are i don't know? did you talk to other iranian offici...

Had stopped its weaponization program. this week, iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, said that iran has now produced its first batch of 20% enriched uranium. he said this during a show of support for the regime on thursday. in the speech, president ahmadinejad declared, "the iranian nation became a nuclear nation. but as he was speaking, they were beating back demonstrators nearby. i spoke with gary sick of columbia university. he dealt with iran for the carter white house during the 1979 islamic revolution. professor sick, as we heard there, what do the people want? what does the oppositi...

They have not made very much progress, at all. and of course, ahmadinejad has been saying for years that iran was a nuclear nation. he can announce that every time there's a celebration, but the reality is, nothing much has happened. and if they've produced a gram of 20% enriched uranium, well, hooray, but it's not a great accomplishment, frankly. >> to be continued. professor gary sick, thank you so much, indeed, for joining us. >> it's always a pleasure. i also spoke with a senior iranian diplomat who's now defected to the white house. mohammed reza heydari was iran's council general in os...