00:00Yeah, I mean, it seems like that same old stumbling block in the first round of talks,
00:05that 21-hour marathon set of talks in Islamabad, produced that same old stumbling block,
00:11i.e. the moratorium on uranium enrichment.
00:14And the U.S. said a 20-year suspension of all nuclear activity by Iran.
00:20Tehran suggested a halt of between three and five years.
00:23I mean, do you see them?
00:25I mean, the fact they're talking about different time frames is encouraging, isn't it?
00:28You know, there is the scope, you'd have thought, of them perhaps meeting halfway.
00:32I think for the Trump administration, they would have to have a pretty large cap
00:40as to when that uranium enrichment would end.
00:44So 20 years for them is their position. Could they come down?
00:49The problem is, is the Trump administration has long spoken about that Iran must never have
00:53the ability to create a nuclear weapons program.
00:57And it's not just the United States. Keep in mind, a lot of countries in the Persian Gulf,
01:02including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, are very concerned about the potential of Iran
01:08having that weapon that they could then potentially utilize.
01:12We've seen what happens when countries like Pakistan, like the North Koreans, have a nuclear weapon,
01:17and then they kind of use that as a way to threaten.
01:20So if Iran was to be in possession of that, that would be a concern.
01:24And I think any U.S. administration going from George W. Bush to the Obama administration,
01:29to Trump's first term, to Biden's term, and then Trump back again,
01:34none of them are necessarily going to be able to make concessions on that.
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