also jarrett blanc, he worked in the us state department while barack 0bama was president.rying to ensure iran fulfilled its nuclear commitments. he now works at the carnegie endowment for international peace. good evening to you all. i will start with you, nazanin ansari, like the europeans, was iran expecting this? they were expecting it. i think they had been saying that they will ask the europeans for support and this is something they have heard also from the think tanks here in london and all the emphasis is now on europe. that will allow them to be able to keep the bargain. what donald trump paid a lot of attention to today was what he has called the spirit of the agreement being broken, why this support for president assad and actions in yemen and support for agents of terror in the middle east and saying that no matter what was happening they were not sticking to the spirit of the agreement. certainly when you look at the amount of financial help iran is sending to hezbollah, which helping logistically with weapons, training, it is estimated to be $1 billion a year

how should the world navigate its way forward well to discuss that are now and joined by jarrett blanc senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace and formerly use state department chords in a very very raw new claim for mentation mr blank it's so good to talk to you thank you very much for finding time for us thank you now i'm sure you are greatly disappointed by president terms decision to walk walk away from the. but hopefully there is still some room for damage control how much of a do you believe can still be salvaged well i suppose you can call damage control there from the u.s. perspective no good outcomes here one possibility is that the path that we're currently on the successful and that's that immediately after president trumps announcement president rouhani said ok we're going to stay in the deal for a little while and give time for the other participants mainly the three european countries to see what they can offer us to make it worth our while to stay in long term that could succeed it would be good from the perspective that would keep her on the nucl

welcome back to worlds apart jarrett blanc former u.s. state department called the nadir 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 questions about russia as you may imagine many people in moscow are very very skeptical of all the speculations about trump supposed collusion with the kremlin but given where we are with the iranian nuclear issue trumps rebuke of both the american obligations and to your european allies don't you wish i had some leverage sumber of poor with they said ministration well issue. on the collision question i'll just say. we don't know whether or not laws what specific laws might have been violated in the united states we don't know what president trump himself knew what is out in the public so obviously demonstrates that the trump can play in colluded with russian actor is. in a way that is deeply disturbing for for america and i don't want to make it have this discussion about the russian collision but what is ou

joining me now from washington is jarrett blanc. 0bama was president. his job was trying to ensure iran fulfilled its nuclear commitments. he now works at the carnegie endowment for international peace. a very good evening to you. do you think israel had anything credible yesterday to add? do you think israel gained credibility yesterday or perhaps lost it? certainly what has been announced publicly so far does not add anything substantial to our understanding of a rant‘s nuclear programmes of the information may be credible but it does not appear to be new. in an expert community, israel has lost credibility. if they had thought they had serious information here, they would have treated it very differently, held it secret, mind the data for information that could drive future inspections from the iaea but i think they had an audience of one person, president trump, and may have gained credibility in his eyes. the white house says it does prove something interesting which is the iranians were further advanced than people had realise

from washington is jarrett blanc who is a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace evening to you. just a brief comment on the letter itself, this vehicle for delivering a message. what did you make of it, mica? bits of it were even ungrammatical. it's very interesting. first of all, it's striking that he released this message to the media. president trump is showing transparency in this process. secondly, this is not quintessentially trump. first of all, the letter is very conciliatory in tone, crafted, and notice that he did not... we seem to be having problems with that line to florida. can i ask you the same question, jarrett. it's a very peculiar letter, as you reported at the top, there seems to be some almost romantic undertones to it. at the same time, there is a repetition of the threat for global thermonuclear war. i'm not sure that conciliatory is the phrase i would use to describe it. let's look at how trump has handled this. should he have called the talks off? you think they never should have started, but presumably you think they should have been call

i can now speak to jarrett blanc, who's a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peaceee images of abandonment —— benjamin netanyahu unveiling everything that he did talk for hours ago, it was quite a theatrical performance. what is your reading of it and who was he aiming at? he claims to have hundreds of thousands of pages of documents which i haven't seen. everything he said early covers a period of history from 1990 72 2003 or 2004. a period we understand very well. —— 19 92. that's why the united states was able to put up an international coalition to put strict sanctions on iran. and get to thejcpoa. he is probably speaking to president trump but the case does not make sense. he is really arguing for the jcpoa but the case does not make sense. he is really arguing for thejcpoa if you scratch the surface. your point is he is ending at one man because we are only a matter of weeks away from president trump having to decide whether to ratify the iran dealfor another period. decide whether to ratify the iran deal for another period. on a regular basis, the us has to e