trita parsi, thank you for joining us. with the quincy institute.ant to thank ro khanna and ask you to stay with us because a lot has happened in the house, where you are a member from california. we want to ask about the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package. the house has included the $15 hour minimum wage, but it will be stripped out. we want your response to that and other issues. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "minimum wage" by they might be giants. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. in a party line vote, the house voted saturday to pass president biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, which includes $1400 stimulus checks to people who make less than $75,000 a year, as well as funding for expanded unemployment insurance, vaccination programs, school re-openings, and more relief for small businesses. the package also includes a measure to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour, which could now be ripped o as it hds to th sena after t un-elted nate pliamentaan ruledt

governors is shuttle to meet on monday morning to discuss iran's nuclear program let's bring in trita parsi he's the executive vice president of the quinsy institute he joins us from washington d.c. welcome back to al-jazeera so a saying the process a stalled could we say should we be saying the process is dead. it is certainly not that this is extremely unfortunate this is not helpful what the iranians have decided it is unfortunately not surprising however from their perspective the biden restriction is continuing trans sanctions policy and just as trump sought to have dialogue with the iranians while he was sanctioning them with crippling sanctions in the midst of a pandemic and they said no to that they are refusing to engaging on that if there are no signs from biden that he will lift the sanctions if he rejoins the deal and this is a by administration on the other hand feel that they should not have to give any concessions to the iranians before getting talks started this is getting serious it is problematic but this process is far from that ok parts of the serious aspects of this is

board of governors is scheduled to meet later on monday to discuss the nuclear program here is trita parsi executive vice president of the currency institute who says both sides need to make some goodwill gestures if they want to see some progress. this is extremely unfortunate this is not helpful what the iranians have decided it is unfortunately not surprising however from their perspective the biden restriction is continuing trounce sanctions policy and justice trump sought to have dialogue with the iranians while he was sanctioning them with crippling sanctions in the midst of a pandemic and they said no to that they are refusing to engaging on that if there are no signs from biden that he will lift the sanctions if he rejoins the deal and this is the buy administration on the other hand feel that they should not have to give any concessions to the iranians before getting talks started this is getting serious it is problematic but this process is far from that one thing that is really unhelpful here is that the europeans have decided to go to the board of governors of the i.a.e.a. and