Richard Haass

And I think there's a chance it could succeed.

So let me segue it.

If I were running the negotiations, I think one of the mistakes we made was putting too much on the table at once.

And by the way, anyone who thought we were going to get a deal in 21 hours was nuts.

It's not the way these things work.

There's a lot of throat clearing and posturing and all that.

So actually, I think the word failures is way, way, way off base.

I would have focused on the straight because that's where the urgency is for all the obvious economic reasons.

The nuclear, I would have simply said to Iran,

We want to negotiate something on the nuclear.

We want to get the enriched uranium, the 900 pounds or whatever it is of enriched uranium either out of the country or we want to dilute the amount of enrichment.

There's got to be a very low ceiling on your nuclear program, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

We're going to negotiate that.

We got time to do that.

That's really complicated.

We've got time to do it.

We're just telling you, but don't mess around with your nuclear program.

Don't change the status of it.

If we see you guys taking steps that looks like you're moving towards a weapon, then we're going to have to break the ceasefire.

Other than that, we won't.