What this agreement in essence does is it codifies with our approval the industrialization of their nuclear program.

sanctions will not stop their program ever. It is negotiations or other options that will do that.

I could not agree more that this should not be a partisan effort.

what we are in essence going to be doing with Iran is we know the momentum shifts in 9 months, the leverage shifts.

this is a big decision.

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My guess is there is a pretty large group of folks that would like to see the process be improved.

But if you are not in the financial business, I would think that would be a pretty big clue that maybe they are not a threat to the financial system.

But there is a clear opportunity for them, though, to present and say, look, if this is of concern to you, it is not worth it to us to be identified in this way, it hurts our investors, so we will do away with this.

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