Torn on the subject

Since someone skipped class in listening and reading comprehension, this is my summary/ translation of what the President said at 3:35-4:00: "As important as it is to consider the value of the lives innocent civilians caught in the crossfire of nation-state politics, this priority on pure moral intentions has been used against us in the past. Nuclear power can be a potential source of a nuclear weapon. Iran is a repressive country where womens' rights don't exist as they do here in the US, and as we know, some of our best minds in the west are women, by marginalizing this group of people the Iranians are effectively depriving themselves of a portion of their economic capital. This is to say, they make decisions and are willing to negotiate based on principles that we don't value, one of those principles being that women can be treated as second-class citizens. We cannot keep negotiating with countries with such varied cultural and ideological differences such as...