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>> jon: iran presses ahead with uranium enrichment. >> alicia: sandra and bill are off today. president rohany laid down an ultimatum warning europe the regime will take the next step in increasing uranium enrichment to weapons grade level unless a new nuclear deal is offered by sunday following iran's recent provocations of attacking oil tankers in the gulf of ohman. european officials pushing back. >> we called on iran to reverse these steps and to refrain from further measures that would undermine the nuclear agreement. >> alicia: lucas tomlinson is

>> mike: the sunday deadline is something to watch. >> it is to see -- sorry. to see how we respond, how israel responds. i think it will be interesting. it's all reversible. the iranians may start to enrich uranium to weapons grade level but they could refuse. >> mike: the regime behavior is unusual saying that the u.s. is hellbent on hostile acts. what do you make of that? >> the president used political capital and tried to use the relationship he built to hold a politically risky meeting in the d.m.z. but what he got out is north korea, kim jong un agreed to negotiate and begin negotiation...

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 it's 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 they're threatening to enrich that uranium to high -- to weapons grade level. that -- the question -- the presid...

Escalating their nuclear blackmail threat. on may 8th, they threaten to enrich uranium to weapons grade level if they didn't receive sections relief in two months in that deadline is july 8th. they've been watching kinetic attacks in the persian gulf, so i would expect iran to continue to launch increasingly escalatory attacks if we don't respond. that's the risk that we run but we don't want to draw ourselves and i ran into a war that neither of us want. >> bill: here it is in real time from the west wing. for tweets here, i will read them off the air. president obama made a desperate and ter...

To bring partisanship to a new and unhelpful level invite him. would have been better to invite the national intelligence manager for iran for the better part of a decade, is not partisan, knows the issues well. and keeping this briefing, understanding threats from iran, we can deter it. >> of maximum pressure campaign against iran is making them less willing to talk, military deterrence campaign causing them to increase attacks and threats that sounds like our plan isn't. >> he has got it reversed. iran threatened to enrich uranium to weapons grade level they didn't receive from sanctions. ir...