Richard Haass has been president of the Council on Foreign Relations since July 2003. He responds to the statement by Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations that President Obama's deal with Iran is "bad news for the world."







MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC: I wish [the Israeli ambassador] had minced words more. I don't know, he was very clear, and calls it "bad news for the world." Is it?



RICHARD HAASS, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: He is under instructions, he has to do that. I think what the administration was hoping to do with the U.N. vote [held yesterday], was in some ways lock the Congress in.



I don't think it will work. I think Congress will vote the way it votes, but what it also shows is, if the U.S. decides not to go along with the agreement, where the rest of the world is, we're not exactly on the same page. It sends a message that everyone else is on board with this deal...



This agreement in no way solves the Iranian nuclear conundrum. All it does is it buys you ten or fifteen years at a certain price.



It potentially makes the aftermath more difficult, and it clearly makes the next ten or fifteen years more difficult when it comes to Iran's regional activity.