Dr. Janice Stein
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This is Iranian money.
It is Iranian assets that were frozen, Peter.
And when you lift the sanctions...
Yes, they're going to be able to export their oil and export fertilizer and other things they export.
But there's no U.S.
money, either under the Obama deal or here, that is going to Iran.
Billions of dollars.
Billions of dollars.
But, you know, frankly, I'd take that in a minute in order...
to shut down and it's not shutting down the nuclear program only for 15 years because it's 15 years of no enrichment if this holds and if these leaks are true and if they can bridge the gaps.
15 years of no enrichment and then enrichment only up to under 4% good enough for medical isotopes but not good enough for anything else.
The man who's running for Secretary General of the United Nations, Rafael Grossi, and ran with a lot of credibility and integrity, the International Atomic Energy Association.
But all that is still to be negotiated, and that could take another year.
And that's why this difference on we're only going to open this trade forum is when the final agreement is reached.
That's a year from now after a very protracted negotiation.
That doesn't work for Donald Trump at all, and I don't believe it works for the Iranians either.
If they get back to the table, there's creative ways to get around that.
And they are sending messages.
Well, there's two worries here.
If you talk to British and French in Europe today, right, because there's three big powers in Europe, if you don't, for the moment, count the Russians.