00:00Meanwhile, former U.S. President Barack Obama says it is unlikely that any new agreement on Iran will significantly improve
00:07the original nuclear deal.
00:09In the same interview, he also stresses the importance of diplomacy over military force.
00:14It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the
00:27deal that we had in the first place and had worked for a long stretch of time before the United
00:40States pulled out of it.
00:41So I'm hopeful that bombing stops and ordinary people are no longer suffering as a consequence of the war.
00:57In retrospect, it's a reminder that on a lot of difficult foreign policy problems, the notion that we can just
01:09bully our way or bomb our way to solutions may sometimes seem appealing.
01:18But the fact of the matter is, is that taking the time to explore diplomacy and exhaust the possibilities of
01:26coming up with deals that don't solve 100 percent of the problem,
01:31but solve 80, 90 percent of the problem while avoiding the necessity of going to war,
01:41you'd think we would have learned that lesson by now, but it seems like every so often we have to
01:45relearn that lesson again.
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