. >> dan rhodes, thanks for joining us. >> reporter: thanks, ray. >> when we come back we'll be joined by three people closely watching the iran nuclear deal. stay with us. you're watching inside story. you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back. i'm ray suarez. this is "inside story." joining us, a senior associate at the carnegie endowment where he focuses on iran and the middle east. from denver, former career diplomat who was the head of the u.s. delegations to the six-party talks on the north korean nuclear issue. he's now dean of the joseph corbel at the university of denver, an. kareem, did you give them much chance to wrap up this quickly? >> before negotiations wrapped up this week, i felt they were almost there. all side wanted to get this deal done, especially the iranians. the economy is under draconian sanctions, tremendous pressure. the obama administration wanted this done as well. the big issue, one of the big stumbling blocks was the right to enrich uranium. iranians wanted the explicit