David Sanger: Iranians Have Said They’re Not Going to Talk While They’re Getting Attacked

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SANGER: "Well, I think there‘s basically two paths they can take, but they sort of all end up in the same place. One is what you would call coercive diplomacy. It is going back to the Iranians one more time and saying, 'Look, we put a proposal on the table. The part you didn‘t like was the fact that it would no longer allow Iran to enrich on its own territory.' That proposal gave them a number of years to wind that down while a consortium of Arab states and Iran built the capacity elsewhere. They rejected that. And I think the position that the president wants to take to the Iranians is, 'You‘re going to lose the capacity one way or the other. The only question is, do you want to do it in a negotiated, orderly way, or do you want to do it through the B-2 and dropping this 30,000-pound bomb.' Whether or not that diplomacy really takes place, I have my doubts because the Iranians have said they‘re not going to talk while they‘re getting attacked."