hello welcome to seven and column says he shevardnadze tensions between iran and the u.s. spyro was washington pushing its european allies to abandon the nuclear deal and tehran unwilling to compromise can they still pull out of the nosedive while i ask dr who shanghai marie mahdi a three time iranian presidential hopeful and president of the american iranian

council. the trump white house is tightening its noose around iran trying to isolate it in the middle east and pushing for europe to stop trading with the sanction his country but with iran's involvement in the region a crucial to the balance of power how far can the americans go in putting pressure on the road before it backfires with iran's new european friends to defy the will of washington and what will the leaders in teheran do in the face of yet another round of this standoff with america. doctor who is shanghai myanmar the president of the american iranian council welcome to the show great to have you with us. thank you very much for having me thinking about the sanctions against iran foreign minister zarif recently said that europeans will have to get wet if they want to swim against the tide of the u.s. uta lateral anti iran route will european countries in your opinion actually go on and risk anything for sake of keeping trade ties with iran alive.

i don't believe i never believed that without america europeans would be any effective helpful to iran in fact europeans have been playing a very. very unfair game dave want to keep iran in the j. c.p.u.'s. and therefore they keep. giving iran empty promises promises that they can not deliver the purpose of european promises empty promises it's just to keep it on in the. iran so far has also been willing to listen to those empty promises because iran also want to to have a legitimate reason to a stay in the j.c. . iran doesn't want to leave is afraid of to leave and therefore it is also looking

for a pretext to a stay and i believe you know pens are also playing that game giving iran that pretext to a state in the j.c.b. us otherwise there is no help or hope from europe for iran so european companies like french oil giant or dennis shaping have a weight maersk and many others have already withdrawn from iran over fears of u.s. sanctions does this mean that trying to save the deal is really a losing battle for the europeans. it is certainly is and i don't believe europeans believe that they can save the deal but the problem is this the one that wants to save did this is iran thus the problem the iran doesn't want to get out of the

europeans are giving iran that the pretext iran needs the bottom line they want that wants to a stay in the deal is iran because iran is afraid of exiting dead dead dead d. l. and making a medica even more. aggravated and i dress if so so in fact iran also is trying to stay they did open our giving them by the way we all know that europeans do not mean it open governments do not control that private sector so the promise that it is that the european governments are giving are the promises that the governments are giving not the private sector and the private sector is not listening to their governments and that's why de have left or leaving iran in large numbers and in the meantime

the u. europe and have come up with this scheme called instead basically a trade mechanism that supposedly will help certain today to continue and particularly trade in so-called legitimate to come other that is commodities that are not under the u.s. sanctions like medicine and wealth food items exactly the only here's my next question because it seems like turkey is planning to set up a similar framework to the european one. turkey and iran are not exactly close of countries their relations somewhat strained over syria and other issues so how far can this cooperation go is this just. a shaky marriage of convenience for both countries again these askins are really i did bottom up that are

sort of oil by oil for food or oil for medicine or other commodities for food and medicine similar to what existed for a rock bought back in two thousand to the you know that is before the u.s. in base iraq on the unfortunate that you that iran will have to come after the j.c. to such a situation and i think no country i believe no country. wants to really jeopardize its relationship i mean economic relationship with the united states of america a group of u.s. senators actually recently published and in the washington post and they're suggesting that they trumpet ministration has been trying to establish a strong link between iran and al qaeda based on no hard evidence and maybe using

this speculation as a pretext to strike iran just like what happened with iraq in two thousand and three desert around take these kinds of speculation seriously or is it just internal american politics at play. yeah that's a very good question my own view of this is that iran misread france misunderstood trom and messed up its relationship with the us center arms significantly to deployment of. being king that relationship into some kind of a danger or is it termed is a businessman trump is not a politician toronto is not a diplomat. from the day von trump wanted this nuclear deal be negotiated remember around vater for almost a year before he leaves j.c. he did not leave j.c.

pos immediately he became president he gave iran as a long time to think about and he tried his best and trump did not really impose sanctions for almost a year even after it really imposed sanctions it actually gave eight countries. you know have a out for exporting iran's oil and they continue to exist to two bodyguards or so i think trump cannot be responsible for everything that has happened between iran and the us i believe i believe iran has to take at least a big part of this responsibility and i particularly i particularly fault iran's foreign minister message is that if iran. does president rouhani because both of them saw in love video of the day scipio they could not

see that that particular did it go she ate it what you're saying is that iran is interesting to stay in the deal but back in july iran's supreme leader salman a has ordered the country's atomic energy agency to prepare for an upgrade for on thier random enrichment capacity is there any leadership bluffing or is it serious about restarting the country's nuclear program. first even bidden d.j. scipio. it on has rights to do certain things what must come any order. was not outside the j. c.p.u.'s it is part of the j.c. pos for death for iran by by doing that mr how many by ordering that particular action was not violating the j.

c.p.u.'s iran has not violated the j.c. even at a millimeter absolutely zero and therefore there is that has been no violation of the j.c. from the it are inside the international and the energy atomic agency as very fide that many many times and iran continues to stay salat within the j.c. . and therefore above whatever that has happened to j.c. . as far as the j.c.t. us goes is the the us side that is responsible it on doesn't day to live and i go outside the gate c.p.u.'s they chase it has become at rap has become a trap for iran as staying in the j. c.p.u.'s gives it nothing is a von vs city it living. here yes even more dangers for iran because it

gives pretext. god there is did you even if we're going to have to take a short break right now we're back we'll continue talking with dr on their own modern president of the american iranian council talking about the tensions between tehran and washington stay with us.

is trump's america first agenda isolating the united states on the global stage sure looks like it is the telling its citizens what to think again sure looks like it. you know world of big. lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going

to do next the ball different clubs. everything is from. a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. given. by the way what is it that. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line. reject. so when you want to be president and you. want. to. look for. more people. interested always in the why.

now we're back with dr who the president of the american iranian council and three time iranian presidential hopeful talking about their risk her and the u.s. surrounding tensions are taking so in president rouhani has recently said that u.s. had any intentions are at a maximum hostile rhetoric has indeed been mounting from both sides and pulled us out of the nuclear deal however like with north korea it could be just tromps way of establishing a negotiations process and the president has said he wanted to meet the dons leader what mr rouhani agreed to at that that that was him. well this is not

a the problem is mr rouhani is nobody he just can't make that decision i think it is the supremes leader. who will make that decision and fortunately mr rouhani and mrs that if they messed up the nuclear deal they had given the mess of how many are kinds of promises and i dand of the day they could not deliver any missile how many therefore has become a violently against the us and against any new deal because he does not believe that it or this people are able to deliver anything or the us is willing to out to our boy allied by any new ruler so therefore it is mr khamenei who is k.p. is keeping the gate closed between us and iran secretary of state might compel has previously invited iranians to look at u.s.

diplomacy to north korea as an example of washington's negotiation powers however nothing really came out yes of the flash diplomacy and american pressure so our negotiations between washington and peel now is really a good example for tehran to watch. not really i think it on has to find its on more modern i mean first i think. mr trump. that vase when it comes to iran an opportunity that turned to become a trap but i have to also say that trump administration is the first administration in the last forty years after it was a rule that has offered iran a comprehensive negotiation toward the north of mali ization of the nation a ship they really offered a comprehensive. the deal toward normalization of relationship meaning the

u.s. will get into the city an economy alp the economy and the rest of it i think iran missed a major opportunity and it has to find its own model north korea is not divided that it that it i should for iran is a huge country is a very important country and india as the u.s. really needs it on part of the board to create the ditch that is stability regional peace and north korea is an isolated estate is it is not in good nobody so i think i will say iran is way too important for mr trump to consider that as north korea or any other state in those. those terms it has to see iran as iran a country of three thousand years of civilization eighty two million people

a geography you ok but all of it iran is largely seen as will doing more influence in iraq than the americans especially person isis iran is a share power though and iraq has loss of restive cinese rates rise again can increased iranian influence in the country trigger a new onset of six hereon violence. yes well again i don't believe the problem in the region between iran and the rest of the community out there that the country is is just she has so many the shia sunni divide is one issue but it has been dead for centuries for fourteen hundred years so that the issue will is not really as to teach it bad and they should not make it i cheat death by the law and the dividing line is still is this country's national interest for them when about it it comes

to the national interest for example at rocky's and others side it on his analysis on side although it at rock is a shia country largely but that's the only country in the middle east that had that eight year war with iran a lot of shias on both sides each other over a hundred million she has on both sides killed each other so i don't think that it is just this so new shia each you is the national interest of this country is and i think all of them have to come together on that basis the fact is that today's world is not the war that one country maximize is interest against the interest of others every nation must be in a fit from any d. and individual the biggest i think mistake that they jason get j c p o m eight

was that it did not include. israel saudi arabia or any of it ons neighborhood so with the nuclear dale and jeopardy if they have positions of anti deal iranian conservatives and re-inforced inside the country could they distill it a from the west pushed it on into a more hardline political regime. well iran is going to war the vatican. and hardline politics no question about it the demand but. public's problems are only two hundred percent sanctions eighty percent of iran has problems is domestic and it has to do but mismanagement of its economy the country's economy is going down not just because of the sanctions that many kevin pose it because it is being mismanaged the information has over one hundred

percent unemployment over forty percent income is declining particularly for the middle classes so you don is in very serious problem and i think the country is moving in that their action a critical situation toward the end of the summit a lot can happen so i think if i was here on i will make a huge domestic change it on bidness to change is domestic it has to yes to rock that regime zick never can tell ee i'm betting that people back to his side but into right people to manage that country should not put all of its eggs on the side of the trying to help to head to get help from europe is another's on on sanctions or anything close to that so it is slamming your public and not just

the lead trump or all this is the problem is that they dish him itself says that a percent of its problems are domestic and they are management issues. that are just that ok but only way to do it is to restructure iran is also accused of being absolved in yemen while the saudis are going for a full on intervention will iran ever get involved directly on the side of the his face. so the problem is this. young man is an app country and it isn't data board syria is an app country is in data board iraq is it out of countries and i have bored it on is needed an app nor is it belongs to an i have board so when saudi's intel within india man or is it syria and elsewhere it is legitimate so-called but when iran does it is

illegitimate because in the un has moved beyond its territory is unfortunate this is double standard of course but it is also understandable because it is and i have ward say what the hell with it are to it to intervene in doubt of board quoting court although we don't really have another board there are so much problems with and that apps themselves but nonetheless it and i believe should stay away from that abort it should go back to its own borders ok and create a whole new that asia ship the senate just passed a resolution that calls for ending your support to the south to complain in yemen and it is expected to make it through the house and be vetoed by trump is this a sign of what's to come if democrats win in two thousand and twenty can sound is afford to continue with their rivalry with iran if they fall out of washington's

favor well first. the young man and the saudis intervention in yemen started and president obama they did not to start with mr trump that's a mistake in fact in fact you know no president of the united states short as much very open to the middle east and mr obama mr obama has a record of selling military machine to the middle eastern countries including saudi arabia. ok but david a very it was very quiet and nice the question after all of that is no not much of a big difference when it comes to republicans or democrats but it comes to foreign policy did it come together the other day have certain you know policy. differences but at the end of the day they really come together in fact in fact i

believe and if it is true mr trump it's not that regime change. it is not an interventionist it has always said that i don't want to get into it if one had to get out of syria i can promise you that he did it without how under a person intervene in syria militarily it will never have given up when i sat. but dropped a ball i think there's a lot of misunderstanding of what the op is doing or would be used and what this emetic i don't know krauts or is only i'm fortunate that misinform agent is going got i. did what they owned it is in does the case is because mr trump was a big mouth. sank you so much for this interview we're talking to dr hooshang amirahmadi straight time iranian presidential hopeful and president of the american iranian council discussing the team's relations between the two nations in the context of the wider middle east that's it for this edition of sophie and call see

you next time. thank you very much for having me. same wrong but i. just don't. get to say proud just because that's ok and it gains from an equal to trail.

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