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oh we're back with that tkinter sahagun former vice president of the european commission discussing the i'm an easy german russian partnership right so the new german foreign minister mr maass has started by taking a tough stance on russia but just a little while later we see germany and russia standing together in support of the iran deal against american attempts to dismantle it can one of the effects of the iran deal affair be to actually bring germany and russia closer together. yes i think i think it does we have a busy strong common interest here and perhaps it shows that a many many other us have common interests as far as the new foreign minister in

germany is concerned. and for the house they should give him a little bit of time i was slightly surprised when he made that announcement because this is. not to put his seed. in the coalition agreement and it's clearly not the policy it's also democratic party to which to which he belongs my my feeling is that a strong strong majority not only of social democrats since many but who will pollution once good and plenty leave the least since with russia and strongly dislikes the complication of policy that we have seen during the last time in his first interview as german foreign minister mr masse was using words like

villager and hostile was speaking about russia something no acting german foreign minister was heard saying before should be seen as berlin's mouthpiece here i mean at the same time chancellor merkel is meeting with putin and saying that relations with russia are strategic priority countries need to talk and there's a german government have a united line on russia at the moment or not. good good good good question. i'm not a member of this government so i do not know but i noticed the discrepancy of you to a bit you have mentioned and. i would not have used the terms which mr moss used perhaps it is not he will not repeat it my understanding is that chancellor merkel is very much interested. in constructive solutions building and building confidence and she is the one who

defines the guidelines. put is c. so give gifts to the present coalition in the debate time to adjust my understanding is the police finally the policy line bill be to try to corporal it was as much as possible like you have mentioned that the attitude that mr moggs has taken towards russia has brought sharp criticism from his own party members and other german politicians it seems that while the german chorus on russia is in line with the e.u. there is an internal political divide in the german establishment when it comes to relations with moscow how deep is this divide and how does it affect policy. yes. it concerns me busybody much what i what i can see since a couple of years but getting stronger and stronger. between.

the normal population and called intellectual elites people people in the media people in think tanks people in political positions they have a much much tougher position than the german citizen. we have we have similar similar situation as well that did the elites in our country. are losing contact with the interests and the views of the people so this is see isn't it in a democracy. if people. have completely completely different views and if you ask me who should change. i think that. those people.

and even. increasing tensions. at least think what they are doing so i agree with what you're saying because i have statistics here that said it's from their struggle it says that sixty eight percent of germans don't want to tell the stance on russia and overwhelming ninety four percent of germans think that good relations with russia are important will pay made of voters pressure the german leaders to find a softer approach to the german russian relations in the end. it depends it depends on what happens in the reality is. not is not a matter of butch's fine point is c. is a matter of dietz so so we have to see whether we can find common ground in. years

we have common interests like middle east like like. perhaps even even ukraine in my view. we have common interests and of course of course economy. partnership and put a leash and ship needs substance we need to be need to do something and here we should not forget that the violent. between between germany and russia despite all the disturbing disturbing words and voices i still be a good to have very strong cultural nations we have visitors strong economic relations be have extremely strong between people and organisations from the civil society be shouldn't be shouldn't be shouldn't underestimate that and yes i believe that finally. understand that we.

have a particular this bun's ability to. make to make sure that russia is three to it as an equal in europe so even if there is a political decision in berlin to for example i don't know the sanctions on russia there are approach by all in all member states so our german is hands tied on the issue regardless of whether the government wants to lift sanctions or not. yeah. dissensions to central european ish your peon decision and a single country like so many cannot cannot change it's been need we need to need a common decision but i believe if if if conditions which would allow the german government on as a government to say we do not need to say the longer they would like to do that the sooner the sooner than later nobody really likes to sing it's not the french not.

know what nobody really likes it and. i would hope i would hope context beautiful full enough at most feel. better about the climate and then the next step. in decision to lift the sanctions step by step. in one step it depends on the situation meanwhile as germany goes along with you sanctions still manages to the lots of business with russia for instance building the north stream two giant pipeline natural gas into germany directly from russia so how does our lame balance. principle diplomacy approach with pragmatic pipeline projects. yeah. not saying not to in. as i understand it i was not involved in the

decision making as far as i understand it the position was german government is that not seem to is in the interest not only of germany but those interests of neighboring countries and to use in particular poland and the budget countries and i think that mrs merkel made it made it clear that not does not does not mean necessarily a dead. it's losing its importance as a transit country for god. i think the best solution would be to find a b. that is phys. needs of ukraine and poland by guaranteeing that the certain amount of energy bill be transported to buy these gun please. let's leave notes to. be neat.

to meet the demand. because the demand is not. a must that it month is increasing as everybody knows so they're killed made it clear where every cent leave that nor strain to project shouldn't go forward until all the issues of ukraine's transit row are settled she said that there are political costs a durations involved how does this go along with german government officials numerous statements at nordstrom to. commercial project yet it does not go along with that it does it does not and do not know what the german government. legally instrument to stop that and i don't think so so this was a political pull to do political statement in my view it would be wise to do as i have said to find the balance aleutian which also takes into account the interests

of ukraine and of ukraine and poland but north too is as you have said for economic if it cannot make these those absolutely important for germany and just a few up so why is no extreme to so dangerous in brussels i mean the germans are pragmatic people they wouldn't sign up for something if it were really strategically dangerous is it more infrastructure always a good thing. you know what. i would i would agree and your position is not. tough a position against most most abundant as you are. complaining complaining a lot and some other countries as well and the visit could be have the same situation the ports feel. by past here. literally literally but that is it season was made. and in my view that was

a mistake one should have tried to have to have to put on board but that is spilt milk now again the best the best solution would be taking into account the month for gust from russia. division of labor so to say between two. additional transport lines fitch reality half all right thank you very much for this interesting talk we were talking to. her again former vice president also european commission discuss and european efforts to rescue the eat on deal and germany's relations with russia that's it for this edition of sophie and co our next time.

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international live from moscow and daniel who. actually joining us this hour the u.s. secretary of state might. threaten the worst sanctions ever for iran as he unveiled twelve demands to tehran. rand must declare the i.a.e.a. a full account of the prior military dimensions of its nuclear program stop enrichment provide the i.a.e.a. with unqualified access to all sites and its proof ration of list of missed releases all us citizens of the us and support the middle east terrorist group iran must respect the sovereignty of the iraqi government brown must also end its military support for the coup the militia withdraw all forces and really throughout the entirety of syria the support for the taliban and other terrorists in afghanistan in the region and i g could force a support for terrorists and militant partners around the world and to iran must end its threatening behavior against its neighbors many of whom are u.s. allies well he started off a speech trying to convince his audience of how bad obama's deal was claiming that

its flaws put the whole world at brisk and arguing that the chase c.p.o. away only postpone iran's development of nuclear weapons and now pump a also promised unprecedented financial pressure on iran ordering that sanctions will not change until iran changes and threatening that iran will have to fight to keep its economy alive we will apply unprecedented financial pressure on the iranian regime the leaders in tehran will have no doubt about our seriousness is will indeed end up being the strongest things in history when we are complete it's also worth mentioning that this economic pressure can only succeed if the e.u. also complies however the e.u. has already stated that it's satisfied with the existing deal saying that more sanctions are unnecessary as it seeks to protect its companies that are doing business in iran but let's quickly break down some of his demands you know some of them have at least something to do with the previous iran deal for example pump

a zero demanded that iran stop enriching uranium and never preprocessed plutonium and asked for access to all of iran's nuclear sites but these remains were not only part of the j c p a way they were met by iran which was certified by the i.a.e.a. other demands pompei a made had nothing to do with a real preventing iran from acquiring new. these were random foreign policy demands which included ask iran to stop supporting who these in yemen demanding that iran pull out of syria but one highlight of the speech was when pompei accused shia iran of supporting sunni extremist groups in afghanistan and apparently pressure will continue until iranians change of government so now america is blatantly telling the iranian people what to do check out what he said at the end of the day the iranian people will decide the timeline at the end of the day be ready people will get to make a choice about their leadership if they make the decision quickly that would be wonderful if they choose not to do so we will stay hard at this until we achieve

the outcomes that i set forward today so that could be interpreted as a call for regime change which unlike pompei is nuclear demands wasn't part of the original deal but all in all it's unclear what the administration is looking to come out of this but what does have to wait for reactions from the rest of the world iran has already responded to washington's demands with president rohani warning america has no right to tell tehran what to do he went on to say that the world will no longer cave into washington's bullying commenting on compose insistence that iran withdrawal from syria to iran set its forces will stay there as long as needed to fight terror. as long as there is the need the through to terror and the syrian government wants it iran will continue is support of the syrian government let me underline that those who entered syrian territory without the consent of its government are the ones who need to get out. with me now is dr

afshin sharkey senior lecturer in international relations and middle east politics at u.k.'s bradford university thanks for joining us so good to have you on the program today iran has responded already they've made it pretty clear they're not going to accept these demands what could all this mean for the region as a whole i mean does iran actually have any effective ways to push back against washington to counter and defend its own interests. yes and i think at the moment you know are these doing the right thing by trying to further isolate the united states internationally over the last seven or eight days despite existing pressures and if you need foreign ministry i've been trying to concrete engaged with the european partners with russia and china because they. know these extremely without a condom comprehensive a pool which without a serious international consensus and agreement and alliance the united states can

not goo back to the regime of sanctions that existed against iran from two thousand and ten to two thousand and fifteen after all definition of sanction was the regime then i think the group you're on to the negotiating table this is think it was here on his flight to create something called a counterbalance against the mounting pressures at the moment of course. there were only about the nuclear issue one of the points was withdrawing. iranian militias the rain in soldiers from from syria and other places well i mean how does that relate to the role nuclear deal what is that washington is bringing that into the mix. if not it is not related whatsoever. and the big me what i was talking about today was. providing a recipe for regime change mr straw our media didn't actually actually over the

last six months and the regime change. and be not actually even ashamed of obviously and frankly talking about the ways in which they can of the mound seen as sanctions can put more pressure on the iranian people to the point that they can rise up against the regime. and suffered at the political system in iran don't want i should a whole host of issues there are some regional bowman she's talking about in. iraq and in the non afghanistan it is talking about. the civil program and if you talk about all these demands it's all demand that he talked about today in my opinion this is the i think that he actually the not going to realize. the regime change. in iraq in the current situation.

would be preferred to company negotiating table to negotiate over their missile program and more importantly been a regional important regional rule in important regional countries like see the. facts bring into my next question which is perhaps the most salient one of this point i mean doesn't matter because washington starts really play into the hands of those hardliners into iran does do these demands effectively sort of kill off any hopes of trust of reconcilement of any potential future decent relationship between tehran and washington so all of europe. i think if there was any remote hope for. iran. in support legally ghar should not forget basically all of the iran deal in two thousand and

sixteen there was a little ball for basically a new chapter in iran you there is a relation with the arrival of the to do one plant in the white house and with changeable it was these them in washington. and then. today and actually the relationship between these two countries between the iran and united states never been discussed are probably over the last one who was since the iranian revolution over the last four decades iran and the united states never been in will terms but what has been happening particularly over the last sixteen months are big shuttles um and as i mention any under the idea of the regime change is back on bijan the in washington and this is something that the iranians likely at the moment it seems that we are in in so to use the economy diplomatic muscle in gauging with the european counterparts and the russians and the chinese to try to kind of find a we out of kind of the mounting pressure is that what so without the player of

course we've yet to hear those reactions from china russia some of the european players are much and so to go to an interesting time for geopolitics dr option sorry u.k. university of write for thanks for joining us today great to get your take today here on r.t. international. a former us presidential candidate hillary clinton has attended a graduation ceremony at yale university she followed that tradition by wearing a pretty unconventional hat. a russian hat. i think if you can't beat him today i know. i was on the way to winning until.