Jeffrey Sachs

It actually doesn't want nuclear weapons.

If we had the slightest sanity, honesty, and rationality in the world, it would be the easiest thing in the world to make sure that Iran has no nuclear weapons because they don't want them.

and the first thing just in digression that you would do if you wanted to make sure that iran doesn't have nuclear weapons you would not kill

the religious leader who issued the decree that nuclear weapons are against the religion.

But the first thing they did was to kill the very religious leader that issued the so-called fatwa to prohibit nuclear weapons.

So Israel, the idea that it's in dire threat if we leave is wrong.

We also need to remember there's a whole world out there.

We don't like to admit that.

It's not the American way, but there's Russia, there's China, there's India, there's Brazil, I'm mentioning countries in the so-called BRICS.

They will tell Iran, no, now you have peace, now you live peacefully.

So Iran cannot.

engage in some regional takeover to become the super regional power because they're also profoundly constrained.

Right now, they're trying to stop themselves from being destroyed by American bombs, precisely what Trump has threatened repeatedly, the end of their civilization, which, by the way, is 5,000 years old, 20 times longer than the United States, okay?

So they're not about to do anything.

all these terrible things.

They're not about to hold a chokehold over the world economy.

President Xi Jinping, who has, let's just say, a lot of influence with Iran as a main consumer and supplier and trader and many, many other things, said yesterday, the Straits of Hormuz need to be opened.

Need to be opened.

Iran is not going to do all these horrible things that are imagined.

And when I say leave, it wouldn't hurt to leave also with an agreement.