months of negotiating where that would have to be addressed. >> woodruff: i want to bring in karim sadjadpourght now. karim, this is what the americans are hearing about this deal. are iranians going to be hearing the same thing? and what is the reaction going to be there? >> the reaction is just trickling out now, judy, and so far some of the hard line forms have come out critical of the deal. tomorrow is friday and a big day, it's friday prayers and i think you will see more of the official reaction then. but i think the supreme leader the ayatollah has a dilemma at the the moment because either he has 75 million euphoric iranians. he doesn't want to demoralize them by coming out against this. >> woodruff: euphoric because the sanctions are removed. >> that and the dream they have of being reintegrated with the outside world. but then he had a long-standing, hard-line political base, and if he endorses this agreement, he is going to alienate them. so this is really a dilemma for him. >> woodruff: how do you see not only the reaction in iran but the region? the president's been on the phone

joining me is krejci -- karim sadjadpour and steve coll. >> they think let's normalize. our alliance with the shaw was a lynchpin of our strategy in the middle east, the iranian civilization and population are potential players in a more stable world after the revolutionary fervor dies. let's move towards it's and take a risk even though it will upset our sunni allies. there are people who think small. there's a sectarian war going on that's getting deeper and darker by the day. shi'a iran is a party to that conflict. >> we conclude this evening with bernard-henri levy, the french writer talking about the middle east and what's happening on the ground in iraq. >> we have a unique country in europe where there's such a support for big parting but she's on the decline already. a lot of people again predicted she did not get that. because the french borders begin to understand not only that she's a woman but also that this party which pretends to be the clean party is full of dirty people. >> rose: the iran negotiations come down to the wire, and a conversation with bernard

iran cannot, i think it might have been karim sadjadpour said iran cannot have it both ways.ad a nuclear bomb and call for the destruction of israel. irresponsible rhetoric and their behavior. one of the reasons the u.s. is determined to prevent iran from having a nuclear weapon. we have other countries that have developed weapons outside the nuclear nonproliferation treaty -- israel, pakistan india -- and we do not have the same concern that we do about iran. >> steve. my question is, we have recently seen saudi arabia lead military strikes against houthi rebels in yemen. with the saudi-led interventionist policy, is that having an impact on current talks? amb. limbert: as far as i can tell, no. both sides, i don't know if it is explicit or implicit, have agreed that whatever goes on out there in the greater world whether it is a letter from congress, whether it is saudi action in yemen, whether it is what going on around tikrit, they are not going to let that derail the negotiations. in the past, that is what always happened. one of the rules of u.s.-iranian relations was a