John Kerry

but to verify.

So the tragedy of a president coming in after the United States did not fully keep its own side of the agreement of lifting all the sanctions, you wound up with now a situation where you have killed the father, killed the wife, killed the

The Ayatollah, we are told, the new one, is tougher, more conservative, and now the bombing has taken place and entire Iranian society and region have been really put under extraordinary attention.

Where do you go from here?

The Straits of Hormuz are now in the control of Iran, which they weren't in the same way before this started.

So we've wound up after these weeks of war, and we have made the distrust much greater.

We've made it much harder to find a way forward.

We've complicated the global economy.

People, average folks in our country are paying so much more now for goods, and that inflation will continue even if the war ended tomorrow.

That will continue for a period of time.

So we, you know, by any standard of how you measure good diplomacy, good leadership,

leading a nation in a time of war.

This administration has been haphazard, sloppy, putting out maybe a 10-point plan.

Oh, no, there's a 15-point plan.

Oh, no, nobody can admit exactly what's in either plan.

That is not the way you lead the most powerful military on the planet.

I don't think anybody can predict what to expect, because there are a lot of variables in what their considerations may be.

And I don't want to speculate.

I do know that the new foreign minister, Arachi, we got to know him very well.

And he's a capable individual, very smart.