It's very difficult to ratchet those up and tighten them to the point where we see a decided change in the Iranian supreme leadership decisions.

We judge Iran's nuclear decision-making is guided by a cost-benefit approach.

It clearly, I think, reaches the level of perhaps the number one challenge of 2012.

To this point, the sanctions have not caused that calculus to change, apparently.

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