ilan berman is joining us. guest: my pleasure. host: let me begin with is a petition from a reporter who is frequently on this network. in the past 30 years the u.s. and iran have been out of sync. what has changed in the last couple of days or weeks? guest: i'm not sure anything has. the iranian strategy has been remarkably consistent. they have tried to play for time, engaged in diplomatic dialogue. first with great britain, france, and germany, and later with the u.n. currently, iran has the opportunity to do so again. barack obama administration has made a key element of its middle east strategy engagement with iran. the idea that we need to sit down. because of that a host of other issues have been put on the back burner. as a scene from tehran the current environment is rife with the opportunity. they imagine they can engage americans as they did the europeans a half century ago. they want to continue down the path of nuclear development. host: are the talks unconditional? is everything on the table? guest: that is a good qu

host: ilan berman is with the american foreign policy the parma. thanks for joining us. "washington journal" gets under way every day at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow neil king will be our guest. he had a row yesterday about the white houseczars. chuck is the editor of a new series with the ap of the next five weeks called "nil down legacy" looking at the one-year impact of lehman brothers. gary will join us, the chairman of the commodities trading platform. rachel is an editor of the website. thanks for being with us on this sunday. enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week ahead. ♪ . . >> on monday, the house conversation authorization for nearly $3 billion for energy dmt based research. also, conversation of a measure that would change federally subsidized student loans. the house gavels in monday at 12:30 p.m. eastern for general speeches with legislative work starting at 2:00 eastern. live on c-span. the senate also returns on monday to work on fiscal year 2010 federal spending. senators are considering 122 billion for transportation and housing programs. they'll ga

then ilan berman from 9:30 to 10:00 to talk about theçç relationshipç between the unit states ande begin at 1:00. another "washington poswashingt tomorrow. thanks. . [captioning performed by national captioning institute]