00:00We have been at it now for 21 hours, and we've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians.
00:07That's the good news.
00:08The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement,
00:11and I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America.
00:15So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement.
00:19We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on,
00:24and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on.
00:26And we've made that as clear as we possibly could, and they have chosen not to accept our terms.
00:34Well, I won't go into all the details because I don't want to negotiate in public after we've negotiated for
00:3921 hours in private.
00:41But the simple fact is that we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear
00:47weapon,
00:48and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon.
00:52That is the core goal of the President of the United States, and that's what we've tried to achieve through
00:56these negotiations.
00:58Again, their nuclear programs, such as it is, the enrichment facilities that they had before, they've been destroyed.
01:06But the simple question is, do we see a fundamental commitment of will for the Iranians not to develop a
01:13nuclear weapon,
01:14not just now, not just two years from now, but for the long term?
01:17We haven't seen that yet. We hope that we will.
01:20We just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms.
01:26I think that we were quite flexible. We were quite accommodating.
01:29The President told us, you need to come here in good faith and make your best effort to get a
01:34deal.
01:35We did that, and unfortunately, we weren't able to make any headway.
01:40Yeah, obviously, we were talking to the President consistently.
01:43I don't know how many times we talked to him, a half dozen times, a dozen times over the past
01:4721 hours.
01:48We obviously also talked to Admiral Cooper, to Pete, to Marco, to the entire national security team.
01:53We talked to Scott Besson a number of times.
01:55So, look, we were constantly in communication with the team because we were negotiating in good faith.
02:00And we leave here, and we leave here with a very simple proposal, a method of understanding that is our
02:08final and best offer.
02:11We'll see if the Iranians accept it. Thank you.
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