John Bolton: Diplomacy Had No Chance, Given Iran’s Objectives

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BOLTON: "There was never a chance — let me say that again — never a chance that Iran was going to agree to any kind of deal that we would find acceptable. And anybody who thinks otherwise just doesn‘t understand Iran. Look, we‘ve negotiated with Iran for over 20 years now, and when serious negotiations started in 2003, 2004 by the Europeans, Britain, France and Germany, it was an absolute precondition by the Europeans that they would support a civil nuclear program for Iran, but no uranium enrichment, no uranium enrichment. And they stuck with that. And the Obama Administration stuck with that up until his second term, when they caved in and allowed uranium enrichment. That was the fatal flaw of the 2015 deal. And anybody who thinks that deal made America or Israel or the Gulf Arabs safer fundamentally doesn‘t understand the direction of the Iranian regime. So it wasn‘t that we didn‘t give diplomacy as a chance. Diplomacy had no chance, given Iran‘s objectives."