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00:00You had something to say. Give us your statement. And then obviously, Syed, we're going to come to you for reaction. Scott, go ahead.
00:07Well, the gentleman from FDD is right that the Iranians have scaled back their cooperation with international inspectors. But if you look carefully at the agreement of 2018, they actually stipulated in the agreement that if America breaks the agreement and withdraws from the JCPOA, that Iran has the right under the agreement to reduce their cooperation with the inspectors.
00:33That's actually in the deal. So Iran is still in the deal with all the rest of the members of the U.N. Security Council. The JCPOA is not completely dead, but just America has broken the deal.
00:44And it's actually part of the deal that says that they can respond if America breaks the deal, that they can then respond by curtailing their inspections.
00:53What we're talking about here is whether Trump and his government can get a new deal with the Ayatollah, in which case, obviously, just like in the case of the previous deal, they have to have openness and inspections or else the old sanctions regime snaps back into place, as was the old deal under the JCPOA and was agreed by China and Russia and the rest of America's allies on the U.N. Security Council as well.