france germany china and russia granny said iran was still committed to the deal despite the u.s. withdrawal last year. but let's stay with this we're joined from tehran by mohammad marandi he's a professor at tehran university thank you so much for speaking to us here on al-jazeera. we've been hearing these developments in iran withdrawing from some commitments under this nuclear deal does this kill the iranian nuclear deal is it dead. i don't think the iranians consider it to be dead although for practical purposes it has been dead for quite a while even under obama the united states refrained from really implementing the deal but under trump. the americans become very extremist and ultimately they have ripped up the agreement of the europeans despite promises and nice words but they have been effectively abiding by the dictates of trump so the iranians are saying that we cannot continue like this we've been waiting for a year since the americans have exited the dream and. we have been waiting to see what the europeans will do and now that we see they're doing nothing nothing we