No signs of Iranian flexibility on nuclear program

In an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations, George Perkovich, a leading expert on nuclear policy with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that despite the world's revulsion at the apparently staged elections in Iran, the U.S. should be prepared to talk to the Iranian government. "The question isn't our willingness to negotiate or to try to find some resolution with this government in Iran," he says. "The real question is whether this government in Iran is at all willing to make compromises on its current posture." Perkovich also saidthat President Barack Obama should push for Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to make progress on his stated goal of seeking a world without nuclear weapons. Read the full interview here.