On Iran’s announcement that it is moving forward with uranium enrichment:

Well, on the one hand, this is yet another slap at the administration, where we turn another cheek, another insult, and another challenge.
However, this one, I think, is a real escalation — when they openly announce enrichment up to 20 percent. The French know that this — the excuse that it’s for medical studies and the medical reactor — is a fraud, because only the French and the Argentines have the advanced technology to turn the enriched uranium into the fuel rods that work in the Tehran reactor. Iran doesn’t have that.
So it [Iran] is enriching uranium. The only way to proceed after that is to enrich it even more highly into a bomb. So, that’s why the French are saying it’s blackmail; it’s very serious.
There is a concept in proliferation of “breakout” where a country decides all of a sudden it’s going to make a race to acquire a bomb, ignore the world, and think it will get away with it.
This is not quite an announcement of breakout, but it’s the beginning of [such] an announcement. It’s saying we are now prepared to do [enhanced] enrichment and we dare the world to do anything. And up until now, there is not a shred of evidence that the Obama administration is going to do anything about it. . . .
Israel is watching the breakout here. If it ever has a sense that it [Iran] is a full breakout, it will attack.
In terms of revolution, or encouraging a revolution, which is the only hope of stopping [the] nuclear issue, it’s not as if it hasn’t happened before. The model is what Reagan and Thatcher and Kohl did — the Pope did — in the ’80s, which was overt support, covert support, rhetorical support, moral support.
And from the evidence of people who . . . were on the dissident side, that made a huge difference in their efforts. It gave them courage. . . . It gave them legitimacy, and it gave them hope.
And that is extremely [important] in a revolution that hinges on a moment. There will be a moment in which the Revolutionary Guards will crack. If that happens, you have a revolution. If it doesn’t, you don’t. It happened in the Soviet Union. It happened under the Shah. It could happen here . . .
We ought to encourage the moment.