sanctions by shipping oil to syria let's carry on with the subject trita parsi is the executive vice president of the quincy institute joins me now via skype from reston in virginia good to have you with assert on the program i mean the rule of law as far as gibraltar has apply and they see no reason why the grace one can't leave a victory perhaps for iran but what does this say about the last ditch attempt by the u.s. to hang on to the ship well i mean the whole thing this entire episode as well as the reaction by the iranians by taking the british ship would not happen and of if the law was the guiding principle here because the british seizure of the iranian tack was an extremely shaky legal ground in the iranian response and equally on shaky ground now what do you think it does show is that the united states and the interim administration in particular with mr bolton is constantly looking for ways to escalate tensions with iran and the real question is why did the brits go along with there's no one very well that this would lead to a very very negative scenario including for the

iran and until they seize this behavior they will be no discussions how between the 2 countries trita parsi is the executive vice president of quincy institute and a professor of middle east politics at georgetown university joins us now from reston virginia thanks for being with us to go back to the tank a seizure a bit of degree of confusion in iraq is now saying that the tanker doesn't belong to them what message though is iran trying to send with this latest seizure of a tank. well a lot of these remains to be uncovered particularly comes to who owns this tanker but i think this probably fits well with the pattern that we've now seen for the last couple of weeks in which as a response to the trumpet ministration violating international law and preventing iran from selling its oil which it is legally allowed to do that the iranians have made it clear that they are not then going to allow the traffic in the persian gulf to flow in the way that it has in the past that they're going to raise the temperature there as a counter measure against the u.s. side and it's quite unclear whether that