g. c.p.o. a and how much potentially do you see the resumption of u.s. secondary sanctions as creating commercial opportunities for your firms in iran. you know what i would hope at least in the immediate term is that iran is clearly trying to make an effort to see if it's possible to salvage the deal foreign minister zarif is visiting moscow he's visiting beijing is in brussels it's hard to know what those negotiations what those conversations will look like and whether in the end i would think that whatever emerges from them is a good idea but i do hope that all of the remaining participants in the g. . will make a sincere effort to figure out if the deal can be salvaged now you've given a number of interviews lately into each you essentially explain how unfair it is trumps criticism of president obama's dedication to the disappearing. but i wonder if there was anything that the obama administration could have done to make it more difficult for its successor it's you bringing on the agreement you know when i was asked in twenty sixteen what happens if

g. c.p.o. a and and if europe were to try to deploy those tools then you could be in a situation of some confrontation government to government confrontation between the u.s. and our allies but but we're still a little ways off from that at this point well mr bank we have to take a short break now but they will be back in just a few moments stay tuned. finally an adult woman also defended evolution now has a valid one thousand people point. line and if you would be would it be that easy to find a friend that i had in the. past is that going to see the city people who move there. but i thought it might have been my little bit of a modicum of that out of it that i accept that i don't have money coming about much of the way for the mass market is it but a. good one does like these lists some voices of the. sea. going to be no problem. i'm a. little bit. you know a little bit of that what's the joke about. welcome back to worlds apart bit jarrett. former u.s. state department court the nadir for ironically implementations mr blank just before the break we talked about the european reaction t

g. c.p.o. a and it doesn't really matter to him he doesn't have a policy objective he just wants to disparage barack obama and what about the so-called european allies because. there are some many issues involved i mean the the fate of the european. exemptions from tariffs on steel and aluminum is still very much up in the air mr trump is supposed to make his decision until june first now there is a threat of. secondary sanctions we are talking about very very large chunk of the economy do you think all these economic issues and i'm trying to phrase it very carefully not to be accused of russian bias but still do you think these economic issues are going to be featured in the political discussions on the run sure i mean the first thing you need to say about this is that from your from europe's perspective iran does not matter economically so whatever decisions europe makes these of the the g c p u a are going to be national security could decisions and political decisions if they want iran to s

g. c.p.o. way was a watershed moment for countries that you're asia. especially iran as well as in western europe and what we're seeing emerge now is a new geo political shift to a much more multi-polar approach and we're already seeing this just like what you probably saw in st petersburg with with the belt road initiative combined with the yes. the shanghai cooperation organization and the year asia european union all beginning to come together with its membership forming this separate economic world order bloc that that's actually going to counter and respond to what donald trump has now done i think europe europe as well because of the sanctions are going to read are going to rebel to out as much as they can and we're going to see that they're going to want to maintain that trade with with with iran as well as with the other countries and that and that region of the world the whole idea because the united states insists upon having the israeli policy interfere with every foreign policy decision it makes it's actually going to it's actually beginnin

g. c.p.o. a and it doesn't really matter to him he doesn't have a policy objective he just wants to disparage barack obama and what about the so-called european allies because. there are some many issues involved i mean the the fate of the european. exemptions from tariffs on steel and aluminum is still very much up in the air mr trump is supposed to make his decision until june first now there is a threat of. secondary sanctions we are talking about very very large chunk of the economy do you think all these economic issues and i'm trying to phrase it very carefully not to be accused of russian bias but still do you think these economic issues are going to be featured in the political discussions on the run sure i mean the first thing you need to say about this is that from your from europe's perspective iran does not matter economically so whatever decisions you're going to be national security could decisions and political decisions if they want iran to stay in the j.c. peel away they're goi

g. c.p.o. a and if that europe were to try to deploy those tools then you could be in a situation of some confrontation government to government confrontation between the u.s. and our allies but but we're still a little ways off from that at this point well mr bank we have to take a short break now but maybe we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. join me every thursday on the alec simon chill and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see that. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept or reject. so if you want to be president. or some want to press. you to go right to the press this is what. three of the people. interested always in the audience at the. sydney. welcome back to worlds apart but jarrett blanc for mike u.s. state department coordinator for ironically implementations mr blank just before the break we talked about the european reaction to trump's decision and let me ask you a few que

g. c.p.o. a and and if europe were to try to deploy those tools then you could be in a situation of some confrontation government to government confrontation between the u.s. and our allies but but we're still a little ways off from that at this point well mr bank we have to take a short break now but they will be back in just a few moments stay tuned. the features are laws that say the collapse gap when the soviet union collapsed because of us meddling in boris yeltsin and all that's going on they had the skyrocketing alcoholism and so shoulder. here in the us because you have this enormous financial aid reengineering to take all the money being printed and put in the pockets of a few folks and leave the vast majority in a state of zombification this is the collapse gap he was talking about the u.s. and the soviet union both collapsed in the one thousand nine hundred ninety period it just took a stake in the us as he describes it you know longer to realize that collapse. because as you know provision of my by going to what we saw in those days i look i if we're lucky you know that ok. b

g. c.p.o. and some of russia's policies we were able to convince as you say germany and other european countries to suffer some real economic harm because they thought we had a plan i think the problem now is that the united states is proving that we cannot be trusted with this tool and so the chances of getting even our closest allies let alone a nontraditional partners like russia like china decide with us i think they're they're much much reduced i don't know if you heard this but chancellor merkel said the other day that your of can no longer rely on the united states in order to protect itself and i would argue that the more pressing. question right now is whether your of can really take it for granted that the united states will not lash out at europe economically do you think this rat of secondary sanctions is real do you think the united states good. full force against european countries if they decide to continue trading with iran provided of course if iran is in compliance with the. s