randolph is in tehran he's a correspondent for the french news agency a.f.p. eric what are the consequences of this huge fold in the reale first of all was so far we haven't seen a terrible. but we are going to very soon see imports becoming much more. about them. and it's just adding to general sense of the malays about the economy which is already struggling with the lack of jobs lot of young people under. educated population just can't find work. and having this currency is going to. so what is around doing about it because as you mentioned it but a heap on their hands the economy itself is not in a good situation employment and now this comes across as. yes quite interesting we've seen some of the usual rhetoric that this is enemy conspiracies and so on but we've also seen a drive towards actually tackling some of the corruption that plaguing the government and the economy for so long publishing names of people that were profiteering on the back of this currency collapse naming about sixty arrests of people connected some of them to the government over the week

a.f.p. and he joins us now eric how big is the bite from this fool in the reality what will the consequences be well so far we haven't seen the worst effects of that as the continues to deteriorate imports are going to cost more and that's going to start to really stink the normal population but what it does reflect is that people have lost faith in the government to deal with the economic problems in the country they're rushing to the dollar to try and find somewhere where they can keep their money safe we've also seen gold prices shooting through the roof and it's a sign of that lack of trust in the government to keep things light especially as u.s. pressure continues to mount and sanctions are just around the corner again next week and is the iranian government doing anything about the situation that we know of. yeah it's been quite interesting while the economic policies are still rather vague and they haven't got anything to convincing to get around that we are seeing them start to crack down a bit on corruption there were sixty arrests over the weekend of people who were described as h

a.f.p. need joins us now eric how big is the bite from this fool in the reality what will the consequences be. well so far we haven't seen the worst effects of that as that continues to deteriorate imports are going to cost more and that's going to start to really stink the normal population but what it does reflect is that people have lost faith in the government to deal with the economic problems in the country they're rushing to the dollar to try and find somewhere where they can keep that money safe we've also seen gold prices shooting through the roof and it's a sign of that lack of trust in the government to keep things of life especially as u.s. pressure continues to mount and sanctions are just around the corner again next week and is the iranian government doing anything about the situation that we know of yes been quite interesting while the economic policies still rather vague and they haven't been anything too convincing to get around that we are seeing them start to crack down a bit on corruption there were sixty arrests over the weekend of people who were described as having gov

commenters from the white house thank you so much for that was spent eric randall there he's a correspondent for the french news agency a.f.p. speaking to us from tehran. well staying in the u.s. president trump has tweeted that collusion is not a crime but this just hours before the purse trial in the special counsel's russia probe that opens today in virginia president trump's former campaign manager paul metaphor places eighteen charges a conviction could give momentum to investigators trying to determine if the trunk campaign worked with moscow to sway the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. in the united states all eyes are on the opening day of poll manifolds trial he said to plead not guilty the prosecution in the case is from special counsel robert miller's team for more than a year now chief investigator miller has been probing whether russia colluded with donald trump's team to influence the presidential election. from june to august two thousand and sixteen manifold was trump's campaign manager but these charges don't relate to his alleged links to russian operatives but rather a tax and financial fraud some

or more now let's cross over to tehran with eric randolph who's a correspondent for the french news agency a.f.p. thanks for joining us what more can you tell us about the reaction from iran to try statement. there is a reaction so far the bit cautious about rushing in to responding to this was thrown from top. eyes of the president saying that the precondition for meeting would be that the u.s. comes back to the nuclear do it reduces its hostility and starts to respect the nation before anything was going to happen but so far i think they're weighing their response which is a very skeptical about the idea that they never talk to the trump ministration so now president rouhani has been criticized for making a deal with what hardliners air and call the greatest satan in the first place what was the nuclear pact which trump told the neutral neutral this nuclear pact anyway the trump old out of that's what he's been criticized for so can he afford to pursue rapprochement with the u.s. a second time. certainly true the iran has taken a big political hit from this he both invested a lot of the legaci