Iran Sanctions Now Seen as Unlikely.

KAI RYSSDAL: Let the record show the President started his news conference this morning with free trade. He called on the Senate to pass a trade deal with Peru, which it did later in the day. But the assembled White House press corps was having none of it. Most of the questions this morning were about the news that broke yesterday afternoon — that a new U.S. intelligence report has concluded Iran stopped work on a suspected nuclear weapons program four years ago. Marketplace's John Dimsdale has more now from Washington. [...]

Jon WOLFSTHAL: I think there is a serious question about how anyone could read this NIE and not think differently about Iran. It doesn't mean we have to give them a bear hug and sing Kumbaya. But I think it does force us to reevaluate our base assumptions and see whether or not negotiations and engagement might bear fruit.

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