Richard Haass

because it doesn't really, it's a pre-negotiation rather than a negotiation.

So quite possibly, the answer is, I don't know.

And it sounds to me that the US wanted to accomplish too much in this first round.

We were too ambitious.

And also the idea that we could impose so many terms, say on the nuclear at this, is nuts.

It's not only too ambitious, but at the end of the day, negotiations always reflect what happens on the ground and people's, where their heads are at.

So Iran coming out of the last, what, five, six weeks,

they weren't feeling vanquished.

They were feeling like they'd taken our best punch.

We need the end to the war.

So again, I questioned some of our tactics.

Let me just be gentle.

We can come back to that.

Even if it turns out we were pretty close, I don't see anything that gets in the way of having a general framework agreement as long as we don't try to resolve too many of the big issues up front.

Look, on the nuclear, I think you make a really good point.

One of the ironies of this war might be that the Iranians say, hey, this never would have happened if we'd had nuclear weapons.

North Korea doesn't get attacked.

They look what Russia's done to Ukraine.

They look at Libya.

They look at Iraq in the old days, and they say giving up nuclear weapons