24 (TV Series)

Day 8: 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (2010)

Anil Kapoor: President Omar Hassan

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• President Allison Taylor : I believe that is a "reasonable compromise", Mr. President, let's move on to the issue of verification. The "language" in your latest proposal is vague

  President Omar Hassan : Let me clear: my country agrees to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapon with full International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards

  President Allison Taylor : But our terms Mr. President, was that the inspectors themselves would be American, not IAEA

  Farhad Hassan : With respect madam President, your side pushed the point which we never conceded

  Ethan Kanin : With respect, "your side" refused to negotiate the point in "good faith." Without Americans on the ground...

  Farhad Hassan : [Interrupts him]  surely, we're not going to let the nationality of a few hundred Americans...

  Ethan Kanin : [Interrupts him]  verification has no "team"

  Farhad Hassan : So only the United States can be "trusted" Mr. Secretary? This is the message that you send to the rest of the world and then you wonder why we don't want to negotiate...

  President Omar Hassan : [Interrupts him]  Farhad...

  President Omar Hassan : Madam President, please excuse my brother's passion: he only wants what's best for our country

  President Allison Taylor : I understand but we need to resolve this issue before we can move forward and "ideally" before the press conference, which gives us less than an hour

  President Omar Hassan : Madam President, what would your Congress say if my Revolutionary Guard was stationed on your soil?

• Farhad Hassan : I just talked to Secretary of State Kanin, his agreed to IAA inspectors

  President Omar Hassan : That's good news

  Farhad Hassan : There is a "condition" attached: their insisting the head of the verification team be an American

  President Omar Hassan : I think we can deliver that. Don't you?

  Farhad Hassan : You know where I stand: we've already surrendered too much in the name of peace

  President Omar Hassan : "Surrender" is a hard word, and what have we surrendered? Really? Apart from our nuclear ambition?

  Farhad Hassan : Isn't that enough?

  President Omar Hassan : Spinning six thousand centrifuges is good for "political maneuvering" but it's helping to bankrupt our country. The truth is: we are not the ones being so generous. President Taylor is lifting economic sanctions and offering an aid package worth billions of dollars, we've got everything we want from her

  Farhad Hassan : As long as it's not a trick

• President Omar Hassan : Reinstate Ms. Reed's clearance

  Farhad Hassan : I was only...

  President Omar Hassan : [Interrupts him]  just do it

  Farhad Hassan : People are starting to talk about you and this "reporter"

  President Omar Hassan : And saying what? Ms. Reed is a journalist and she's profiling me for a newspaper

  Farhad Hassan : But you have "feelings" for her

  President Omar Hassan : I'm "friendly" with her: think whatever you like, this woman poses no threat to me or the peace process

  Farhad Hassan : Not here maybe but back in our country, you'd be torn apart, and many others will say you have been "corrupted" by the west

  President Omar Hassan : What do you say? Have I? Have I been "corrupted" by the west?

  Farhad Hassan : You know I don't believe that but you are married

  President Omar Hassan : Dalia hasn't been a wife to me for a long time

  Farhad Hassan : That's no excuse to be reckless

  President Omar Hassan : I've done nothing reckless, just reinstate Ms. Reed's clearance now