So we are doing our job.

I hope that those who are seeking war and want to drag the United States into an unnecessary and disastrous war once again,

I hope they won't prevail and let us diplomats work with each other and find a diplomatic solution, which I believe is at our reach and can be achieved in a very short period of time.

Really? Okay. That is the foreign minister talking on MSNBC this morning. Michael Doran joins us now. Hudson Institute, senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace

and Security in the Middle East. Michael, do you believe this foreign minister that we're going to

rapidly get together a deal? They want on a fast pace to get a deal that we can get something done?

No, I don't believe him. He's working under very strict restrictions from the Supreme

Leader.

He cannot offer the United States a diplomatic solution to the nuclear question, let alone anything else, that is anywhere near what the United States needs.

Here's what Morshi, he said. Cut 11.

We had a very good talks a few days ago in Geneva, and we were able to discuss the questions related to our nuclear program and to the U.S. sanctions.

And we agreed on a set of principles or guiding principles for our negotiation and how a deal can look

like. And we then were asked to prepare a draft of a possible deal. So next time that we meet,

we can, you know, go into that draft, start negotiating about its language and hopefully come to a conclusion.

So that's how he left off. He beat the U.S. to any type of public statement, kind of caught, I think, the U.S. by surprise,

by saying we had a lot of progress within two weeks, we have a framework.

So I guess we go back to your original answer.

He's just trying to delay, it seems.

Yes, and this is a normal tactic that the Iranians use.

I was the senior director in the White House for Iran

back in 2005 to 7 for the whole Middle East in Iran was in my portfolio. And I used to say to

my colleagues that if we behaved like them, we would go before the cameras and say, you know,

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