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We've not had full cooperation from all countries and iran is evading it, the financial side and the oil side. and the sanctions are having an economic effect on iran, that's true, but largely against iran's middle class which of course is the group of people most opposed to the rule of the ayatollah. it's had no discernible effect on iran's nuclear weapons program and that's what it's supposed to effect. >> and when you're complicit with breaking the sanctions, the ability of the sanctions to do what they're intended to do and we even give it to britain. we're basically complicit and we do th...

This administration? >> you know, we have a country-by-country foreign policy. it's not as clear to me what the strategy is. what's the vision for where we want this all to go, where do we want iran to be as this process goes on? how does this affect the middle east peace process with israel and the palestinians? what does this do about oil and what we're trying to do on the oil side? what kind of middle east do we want to see? i would think central to that would be the stability of saudi arabia. and we're not talking a lot about this because our attention's been diverted to libya. you know, w...

Ground, a very prominent man here in the uk. i used to interview him, other people used to interview him and then a scandal happened in his personal life and problems in the u.s. with safety. so they brought in an engineer, a man who grew through bp, who has this incredible background, phd. he's -- they decided they've got to go to a guy who understands the oil side of things, and that's where he has been focusing. and i can tell you, ali, the entire time he has been the ceo, i have never done an interview with him. he's not the kind of guy you see in person or in public very often. and i can ...