making landfall batten down the hatches joining me now to continue this conversation is where true lockman professor little course is a ology at university of melbourne the sunni thank you so much for joining us richard first i want to start with trump is expected to do certify a deal to curb iran's nuclear program this will give congress sixty days to decide whether to impose sanctions now what do you think will come out of this. well i think if the first congress won't go ahead and impose sanctions that are two reasons one is that some members of congress think that they can actually get iran to renegotiate the deal even though iran won't do that and indeed no country you know laterally changes the terms of an international agreement to make it less favorable and the other factor is that even though the u.s. foreign policy establishment in congress really sees iran is important opponent in the middle east they're worried about u.s. credibility and they're really afraid the by this action and more generally trump is going to destroy the u.s. his ability to make agreements and to have alli

donald is already making landfall batten down the hatches for more on this i spoke earlier to retro lockman a professor of political sociology at suny albania and i first asked him what does he think will come out of congress to certifying the iran nuclear deal some members of congress think that they can actually get iran to renegotiate the deal even though iran won't do that and no country you know laterally changes the terms of the international agreement to make it less favorable and the other factor is that even though the u.s. foreign policy establishment in congress really sees iran is important opponent in the middle east they're worried about u.s. credibility they're really afraid by this action and more generally trump is going to destroy the u.s. is ability to make agreements and to have allies around the world so i think that at least for a while will restrain them as we know to certifying the deal isn't the only thing on the table is also expected to deem iran's most powerful security force the islamic revolutionary guards corps as a terrorist organization first archer can you