EXCERPT:
CLARK: “And so, why is it happening? Because we’re in there. It’s a modernizing region, but you also have a regime in Iran which for 46 years has set its priority on the destruction of Israel and become an enemy of the United States. And what’s so ironic about this is, we’re the ones that really forced the shah out of power in Iran in 1978. We sent a general to Iran to tell the Iranian generals, 'Let democracy flourish.' Unfortunately, it didn’t, and Khomeini came back in. But the regime turned against us as a convenient enemy. So for all this time, we’ve been dealing with this regime. And that’s why I think the real point of the negotiations should not be nuclear enrichment or no nuclear enrichment. It really should be. Iran must renounce its aim of trying to destroy Israel. Just live in peace, let other people live in the region. You can have your your Shi’ism. You can talk about the next Mahdi coming and all of the things that are dear to you. But why pick on another state and try to destroy it?”