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00:00Right, so it's been seven years nearly since President Trump tore up that 2015 deal between Iran and six world powers, a deal that you say yourself worked on.
00:11I mean, I don't know what your initial reaction was in 2017-18 when that deal was done away with, but has your opinion of that decision changed?
00:21I mean, do you think with the benefit of hindsight, President Trump was right to have done what he did?
00:26No, I don't think he was right. I think the problem was that he ripped up the deal without actually having a plan B.
00:35And so we've now reached the situation, seven years later, when Iran is closer than ever to acquiring nuclear weapons,
00:43and President Trump faces exactly the same quandary that we faced back in 2015,
00:49of trying to prevent Iran's nuclear program diplomatically, with the alternative being bombing Iranian nuclear sites,
00:59which has obviously unforeseen potential consequences. No one quite knows where that would end up.
01:07And that's why I say I think the stakes are very high for both sides in this,
01:11because if President Trump does a deal that is considered to be not a very good deal,
01:17having said that the 2015 deal was the worst deal in history,
01:22he will not be seen to have come out of this very well.
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