I think the administration is making a mistake by focusing on the aluminum tubes, because they’re not a clear indicator of a nuclear weapons effort in Iraq.

You are actually talking to Obeidi? … Where is he? What did he say?

The IAEA… won’t know where these thousands of centrifuge components are. If you move them out from where inspectors can go, you can much more easily build a centrifuge plant in secret.

It could be that there is covert activity going on there. They design their buildings and design their activities knowing that they’re being observed.

Brazil doesn’t cheat on the Nonproliferation Treaty and it does not exist in an area of high tension.

That’s what we think is new, that you could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system.

Any weapons of mass destruction or the equipment to make them is unprotected, and given the looting, you have to assume that some of it has been taken away.

That’s historically been its position and that’s one of the big unknowns, whether it will change its mind before the actual vote, but I don’t see Russia going into this Board of Governors meeting and...

Iran’s problem is that just to turn down the Russian proposal adds a lot of support to those who want to bring the matter to the Security Council.