David Sanger

If this ceasefire essentially becomes permanent with no change, then the White House will have accomplished virtually none of its major goals.

The country is still run by a military and theocratic group of elites who have terrorized their own population.

They still have their nuclear material.

They still have missile supplies and drones.

And most importantly, I think, they still have a sense that they were able to stand up to the United States and Israel and resist against a much larger invading force.

Oh, look at the inside.

Look how beautiful that is.

Well, Terry, wonderful to be back on with you.

I was a little surprised.

I had thought that he was going to set some kind of deadline for the Iranians because the backdrop to the speech, of course, was that he has engaged in one of the largest examples of gunboat diplomacy that we've

seen in some time.

He's put a huge force of two carrier groups, other ships, fighter aircraft, bombers, refuelers, all within reach of Iran.

It's the largest buildup of American military forces that we have seen since the run-up to the Iraq War in 2003.

So it's a huge military pressure campaign.

And I thought he would refer more explicitly to that.

He didn't.

Instead, what he did was kind of run together a couple of different facts and a few fantasies about the Iranian program.

First of all, the problem with the Iranian nuclear program is not that the Iranians haven't said they'll never build a nuclear weapon.

They say that every week.

They've been saying that for years.