00:00In many ways, just listening to what you're saying, we're further away from addressing the original nuclear concerns
00:05because now the issue is getting the Strait of Hormuz reopened.
00:10So, in many ways, the nuclear issue has been entirely eclipsed, at least at this stage.
00:15Tom, that is exactly right.
00:16We entered this war trying to solve the nuclear issue.
00:19The nuclear issue now, in many ways, as you said, is secondary or at least less urgent.
00:24The Iranians want to negotiate in a phased approach where the first phase is talking about their reopening the Strait
00:32in exchange for the lifting of the blockade, and only a later phase of negotiations would be
00:38their willingness to accept constraints on their nuclear program in exchange for an easing of sanctions.
00:45But President Trump wants to make sure that Iran, as he says many times, never gets a nuclear weapon.
00:51So, there's a whole sequencing issue that's preventing real negotiations from starting.
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