. -- weakend. i would not be surprised if there is continuing uncertainty in iran. for ahmadinejad to reach out and say, i am ready to do business. in effect, to legitimize them. that is where i think the administration comes up against a difficult choice. one thing we do not talk about today, believe it or not, is iran's nuclear program. questions about where it stands and what it is doing. ahmadinejad is the first to come out. we are at 7000 centrifuges. if they continue to do that, that keeps the clock running. they have questions about the legitimacy of the system. their calculations may be that it will be easier to strike and it would have been if you had musab be elected -- mousavi elected, if you had an election that put ahmadinejad back in power. i think this is the worst possible confluence of factors that the obama administration faces. >> i think he is faced with if things calm down, and it does not look like it will, but if they do, he is faced with the now-what moment. both in terms of domestic politics and foreign policy. it is important to understand