Dr. Janice Stein

And there was a moment when he was thinking of doing that, but he hasn't done it, frankly.

Well, I don't want to distract us from Germany, but there are more advanced negotiations going on right now.

Well, you know, Iran...

allegedly based on leaks and the only reason i'm talking about it is because the leaks are from the u.s side and the iranians have just made a comment no no that's not quite accurate so then something's going on what have they put on the table peter apparently 15 year freeze on enrichment

Well, that would be very different from the original Obama deal because there was no freeze on enrichment.

And then time-unlimited ceiling on enrichment only to 3.27, which doesn't get them anywhere near a nuclear weapon.

What's the dispute right now?

the iranian the united states says that's on the table now before we each open the straight and the iranians say no it's not before we each open the straight we open the straight after we have a final agreement that's not a small difference but clearly the goalposts have moved here the nuclear issue is back on the table the iranians have taken it off it's right back on

Yes, he did.

But, you know, the Iranians also have said forever, we will never give up our right to enrichment.

And now they're talking about 15 years of zero enrichment and then a very, very low ceiling on enrichment.

That would really mean their program cannot be used to break out to a nuclear weapon.

Yeah, but I'll tell you there is really a difference here, Peter.

Under the Obama deal, and the Obama people never denied this, they just couldn't get any more at the time.

The ceiling on enrichment expired entirely.

No constraints at all after 15 years.

And they were free to do what they wanted with respect to enrichment.

That is a big difference between the two bills.

So were this to happen, and who knows, because it's not a small gap, but were this to happen, it would be fair to say this is a better deal than the Obama administration got.

Now, who knows where tolls are in this story either?