dr. peter brookes. is a senior fellow for national security affairs at heritage. joining us he served as that the essence of sigir of defense in the george w. bush administration. a republican staff of the committee on international relations and the u.s. house of representatives come work for the central intelligence agency as well as at the state department come in the private sector and defense funds and on active duty in the u.s. navy. please join me in welcoming dr. peter brookes. [applause] >> thank you john. i guess it's good afternoon now. up into the heritage foundation come our discussion on the reigning nuclear negotiations. i guess a deadline like a red line is a except when it isn't. seems we've blown through another quote-unquote deadline with iran and the latest round of nuclear talks. news reports indicate there still a number of rough patches on the road to an agreement between iran and p5+1 and talk to go until the end of the week, maybe. these include hot button issues such as sanctions relief for iran, research and development inspection educat

dr. peter brooks. [applause] dr. brooks: thank you john. i guess it's good afternoon now. welcome to the heritage foundation. i guess the deadline, like the red line is a deadline except when it is not. it seems we've blown through another "deadline" with iran and the latest round of nuclear talks. news reports from the and there are still in number of rough patches, and that talks will go until the end of the week -- maybe. these include hot button issues such as sanctions relief for iran, research and development the inspection and verification regime and the question about iran's prior work on a nuclear warhead, among others. to couple kid matters further iran is pushing for punitive sanctions to be lifted on their ballistic missile program -- to complicate matters further. as if that is not enough, tehran is also asking for an end to the weapons embargo put on iran, which is troubling considering its support for terrorist group hezbollah and the syrian regime and its regional aspirations. current legislation requires congress get not a 30-day look at the deal if they r