but people forget, this was when iran was just starting to say that it wanted to resume the bushehr nuclear power plant at its start during the iran-iraq war and so iran had gone to germany to see men's to ask for work in the clinton administration, not the george w. bush administration. the clinton administration took a position no nuclear program in iran, not just no enrichment, no nuclear power plant, no nothing in iran. that was the u.s. position. and the u.s. used his influence with germany to get germany to stop cooperation with iran. and that was seen as a victory of the strategy of isolating iran. and then russia came in to fill the german position. so russia said will provide this cooperation. and then it was found actually that russia, around 96, 97 that russia had agreed to supply uranium enrichment technology to secretly to iran and then the clinton administration exposed to this to yelp and got agreement that the rush and slid back out of that element of that, but they would go ahead with bushehr. but in the uranium enrichment cooperation. and that's where we thought to play un

this to yeltsin and got agreement that the russians would back out and they would go ahead with the bushehrpower reactor in the uranium enrichment cooperation. that is where we thought things were until was discovered that pakistan was supplying uranium enrichment assistance to iran. i was in russia when this was announced and the russians were surprised and not happy. they thought they were the only ones in this kind of relationship with iran and it was like somebody finds out there mistress is having an affair and they are outraged. how could they be with the pakistani. the russians are still mad about that. the ways of trying to do that isolation which i support, we have been trying for a long time and so i don't know if it was too little or if it is just a question of there are always ways around these problems. i don't think isolation was too late. iranians and others will argue that inducement was often too late and too lou. i remember in 1997/98 the clinton administration tried inducements. that was a positive time. there was change in iran and there were efforts and one could always

i consider myself what he called bush -- sprick a bushehr arrangement. >> are you recovering? >> and slightly recovered. [laughter] i still don't like him but fell into it. if people think this shifted so far right the past 40 years and i kind of went into that but when we look back in history it's like shifting back and forth and if you think it has shifted so far right so the center right now is not the true center is the center between what is left and what is right. >> so the point is this is one of the arguments folks used against the center is it's not a true position. it's always relative to where extremes are at any time. islamic typically is slightly to the right of center. >> america is a center-right nation but slightly. this is what the friends forget is the center right nation but it's a center-right mentioned not a right nation which is how they win the elections. to your point, to your second point i think about the drift in american politics it is important because there is a reality check folks need to have. folks in the party this year have been pushing the i