Definitely, this is a step in the wrong direction. It runs counter to the [International Atomic Energy Agency] board of governors resolutions and a statement by the U.N. Security Council president.

This opinion is invariable, and it will be reaffirmed at the upcoming talks.

The two likely things influencing the market (this) week is the direction of energy prices and the impression that the Fed is going to stop raising rates.

We need rates to go down, but this goes in the other direction. Energy-intensive manufacturers are going to be hit the hardest. They're going to be paying a disproportionate share of the program costs.

Energy weapons are being used against neighbors. The move toward a policy of imperialism ... has a clear and high price that will eventually be paid by the citizens of a nation that embarks on the imperialist path.

Physicists have known that dark energy could become negative and the universe could collapse sometime in the distant future, perhaps a trillion years. But now we see that we might be not in the beginning, but in the middle of the life cycle of our universe.