inspections and before in exchange the other parties agreed to lift nuclear related sanctions on iran but that did not include separate u.s. sanctions that were not related to the nuclear program and even before president trump pulled out of the deal last year iran has long complained that washington did not do enough to ease its banking restrictions early joe miller is a fellow the middle east and north africa program at the european council on foreign relations joins me now from london good to have you with us how close to dead is this deal now. well we're certainly more on the brings of that collapse then we have ever being we've now had a year since the u.s. withdrew from the agreement and officials inside iran have repeatedly sent warnings that the conditions that they have been placed into you know increasingly being cornered by the united states on the economic front is unsustainable and i this in ounce made today is.

u.s. pressure and in moscow iran found support from a strong friend at a critical time russia blamed the united states for single handedly undermining the twenty fifty nuclear deal and said u.s. sanctions against iran are unacceptable and illegitimate and looking into. all of this has been lamentable behavior by the u.s. we have break u.s. statements from the u.s. to stop any iranian influence not just in syria but across the region it's unrealistic to terminate this imprints and it has no charts as a serious policy iran may be economically isolated but the message from russia is that iran is not alone. together the foreign ministers of both countries put european signatories to the iran deal on notice. because i had. been made a decision to implement that. not to stop its implementation not to work against it not like the americans will withdraw from it in a letter to a basters of the u.k. france germany china and russia president rouhani said those countries have sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions he said steps iran is taking remain in line with the wording of the nuclear deal iran remains committed to it and to mainta

in a strongly worded statement iran's foreign ministry condemned the latest u.s. sanctions this time targeting iran's metals industry iranian foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi said the u.s. moved once again violated america's international committee he threatened legal action and said the united states would be held responsible for damages resulting from these latest sanctions but experts say existing sanctions have already made things so bad that more sanctions are unlikely to make things much worse. i think what america is doing now is just repeating their position banking sanctions have already made many problems for a rainy and trade missile and other sanctions might make any difference i think it's a big agreement for his next election and as there has not been any result with north korea the u.s. is trying to increase pressure on iran the latest u.s. sanctions hit iran as europe rejected what it called iran's ultimatum of non-cooperation with the nuclear deal and in a sign of growing mistrust with european partners iranian m.p.'s from the national security and

u.s. sanctions on iran. what this latest round of sanctions seems to be targeting is that the sort of export of industrial meant metals and why this is important is this is an important source of revenue for iran because it accounts according to the white house at least we haven't had time to fact check these numbers but roughly ten percent of its export economy the white house has gone even further the president putting other nations on notice in other words. issuing a warning to other nations that they also should not in any way allow these metals to come into their ports there's no announcement of what those consequences might be but certainly the united states is sending a message perhaps to some of its allies and even others that it may have less friendly relations with what the united states is basically once again doing and we've seen this escalation in recent weeks is it maintains it's trying to get iran to alter its so-called conduct if you will its pull forward according to the statement twelve con

u.s. has been tightening its restrictions on iran it will now sanction every country buying a rainy and oil a six months u.s. waiver on iran sanctions which allowed eight countries to continue importing oil from iran has expired and that means those countries will have to find other suppliers among them turkey which has expressed a desire to continue large purchases of the raging crude amid a lack of alternatives. for turkey the end of the u.s. waiver couldn't come at a worse time. the country is in a recession. the turkish lira has plunged eleven percent against the dollar and oil prices are rising. it's not off the ball for us to diversify the source of the oil we import in a short time the technology used in our refineries isn't compatible with crude oil exported from many countries. turkey is among the eight countries affected by the end of the u.s. waiver china the biggest buyer of a rainy and oil has also condemned washington's decision but its neighbor india says it's ready to comply with the new u.s. restriction. we are prepared to deal with the impact of the decision. that will be

goods exclusively are involved meaning any other trade with iran will be sanctioned this means essentially a confrontation course between the u.s. not and not only iran but between its closest allies namely the europeans if in fact they try to keep trade with iran alive i'm machall has just returned from the united states where she delivered the commencement address at harvard university and she outlined a vision that was essentially diametrically opposed to trump's approach can pump a is visit in any way help improve relations between the 2 allies. unlikely indeed we have an absolute frontal clash between 2 very different ways of seeing the world and the main difference i think our report mentioned nationalism the main difference though is unilateralism the us is clearly in key areas and other ones on the agenda today relations with china and especially with the company while way relations on the north stream a gas pipeline between russia and germany again and again the us tired take is maximum pressure whereas the german approach as outlined by chancellor merkel is multilateral cooperation try to understand the other side's p

u.s. sanctions this time targeting iran's metals industry iranian foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi said the u.s. moved in once again violated america's international commitments he threatened legal action and said the united states would be held responsible for damages resulting from these latest sanctions but experts say existing sanctions have already made things so bad that more sanctions are unlikely to make things much worse pretty much as somewhat of an unsecure i think what america's doing now is just repeating their position banking sanctions have already made many problems for a rainy and trade missile and other sanctions point make any difference i think needs a big agreement for his next election and as there has not been any result with north korea the u.s. is trying to increase pressure on iran the latest u.s. sanctions hit iran as europe rejected what it called iran's ultimatum of non-cooperation with the nuclear deal and in a sign of growing mistrust with european partners iranian m.p.'s from the national security and foreign policy commission of iran's parliament ac

u.s. imposed sanctions on iran iran is a key supporter of china's built in road infrastructure initiative designed to ease chinese global trade but analysts say china may have no option but to bow to u.s. demands and. the united states is serious in forcing china to pick a side the chinese government has to be very careful the timing is critical this week top negotiators from washington arrived in beijing for a new round of trade talks both sides are working to finalize a deal to end escalating tit for tat tariffs which began last year experts say china may give up iranian oil which makes up about seven percent of china's total oil imports to avoid jeopardizing discussions on trade for china now and the most important relation is still it's not with iran it's within us and there are other battles china need to fight in terms of transformative technology. on china is desperate some sort of cutting slack from the u.s. should china stop buying iranian oil it could compensate tehran by boosting trade in other areas if it continues it could do so via a backdoor. no in the times to stop buying o

u.s. pressure and in moscow iran found support from a strong friend at a critical time russia blamed the united states for single handedly undermining the twenty fifty nuclear deal and said u.s. sanctions against iran are unacceptable and illegitimate if. the intention of the u.s. to send its carrier is to the persian gulf to strengthen its military presence there hinting at the use of force all of this has been lamentable behavior by the u.s. we hear regular statements from the u.s. to stop and cease any iranian influence not just in syria but across the region it's unrealistic to terminate this influence and it has no chance as a serious policy iran maybe economically isolated but the message from russia is that iran is not alone. together the foreign ministers of both countries put european signatories to the iran deal on notice that because i had on his show these actions by the us government which is a law breaking government there for over the past year iran despite what the us is doing we have stayed committed to our decision today we made a decision to implement that. not to stop its implementation not to work against it not like the americans will withdraw from it in a letter

u.s. sanctions iran is primarily dependent on income from the sale of oil washington sanctions have effectively choked off that money supply we will do our best to enforce the american sanctions regime that is but it been put in place all differences aside pompei o did reaffirm that germany nevertheless remains an important ally of the u.s. . meanwhile it looks like president trump is starting a new tariff conflict with mexico he has threatened to impose new tariffs if mexico doesn't do a better job of stopping migrants trying to enter the u.s. trump says he'll slap duties on all goods and keep raising those tariffs if the mexican government does not act fast. touch down in washington force one amidst the gathering storm clouds it's from his official jet the president declared tried war on the u.s. a southern neighbor by tweet he wrote on june 10th the u.s. will impose a 5 percent tariff on all goods coming into our country from mexico until such time as illegal migrants from mexico stop. the u.s. president signaling he's ready to keep raising those tariffs until he's satisfied mexico has done

iran about the situation there . science or imposing off those u.s. your military sanctions. it was the for example as a prize goes high 45 present comparing to previous years some for. approximately 40 per cent. we don't we do not resort not have because iran has expert 40 years' experience and invite. things sanctions yes the sanctions hurt iran but it will not bring iran to the knees it won redirecting the what will come 20. 2020 in the next us presidential election there's basically 2 definitions of bringing iran to its knees one is whether prolonged hardship would possibly cause the population to rise up promote a resistance against the regime and the other one is whether it would essentially force the regime to make concessions you're saying neither because if you also look at soros or so university of maryland you see since the sanctions. people in iran. the people in iran do not like more to have negotiation or us that is this if you really come from eyes with so you as if it gives more. the u.s. want more becomes the calming popular. people and most of the suffering c

u.s. pressure. and in moscow iran found support from a strong friend at a critical time russia blamed the united states for single handedly undermining the twenty fifty nuclear deal and said u.s. sanctions against iran are unacceptable and illegitimate. all of this has been lamentable behavior by the u.s. we hear of regular statements from the u.s. to stop any iranian influence not just in syria but across the region it's unrealistic to terminate this improvements and it has no charts as a serious policy iran may be economically isolated but the message from russia is that iran is not alone. together the foreign ministers of both countries put european signatories to the iran deal on notice. because i hadn't he. made a decision to implement that. not to stop its implementation not to work against it not like the americans will withdraw from it in a letter to him basters of the u.k. france germany china and russia president rouhani said those countries have sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions he said steps iran is taking remain in line with the wording of the nuclear deal iran remains committed to it and to maintaining peac

u.s. pressure. and in moscow iran found support from a strong friend at a critical time russia blamed the united states for single handedly undermining the twenty fifty nuclear deal and said u.s. sanctions against iran are unacceptable and illegitimate and looking into. all of this has been lamentable behavior by the u.s. we hear break u.s. statements from the u.s. to stop any iranian influence not just in syria but across the region it's unrealistic to terminate this improvement and it has no chance as a serious policy iran may be economically isolated but the message from russia is that iran is not alone. together the foreign ministers of both countries put european signatories to the iran deal on notice. because i hadn't he. made a decision to implement that. not to stop its implementation not to work against it not like the americans will withdraw from it in a letter to him basters of the u.k. france germany china and russia president rouhani said those countries have sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions he said steps iran is taking remain in line with the wording of the nuclear deal iran remains committed to it and to

iran about the situation there . scientists are imposing off those u.s. your military sanctions. it was there for example as a prize goes high $45.00 present compering to previous years. as approximately 40 per cent but. we don't. really should not have illusion because iran has expert 40 years' experience and in very. doing sanctions yes the sanctions hurt iran but it will not bring iran to the knees it won relating to what will come 20. $2020.00 in the next us presidential election there's basically 2 definitions of bringing iran to its knees one is whether prolonged hardship would possibly cause the population to rise up promote a resistance against the regime and the other one is whether it would essentially force the regime to make concessions you're saying neither because if you also look at soros also university of maryland you see since the sanctions. people in iran. the people in iran do not like more to have negotiation for us that is this if you really come from eyes but so you if you give more. the u.s. wants more becomes it's becoming popular. people most of the suffe

u.s. pressure. and in moscow iran found support from a strong friend at a critical time russia blamed the united states for single handedly undermining the twenty fifty nuclear deal and said u.s. sanctions against iran are unacceptable and illegitimate. all of this has been lamentable behavior by the u.s. we have regular statements from the u.s. to stop any iranian influence not just in syria but across the region it's unrealistic to terminate this in clint's and it has no chance as a serious policy iran may be economically isolated but the message from russia is that iran is not alone. together the foreign ministers of both countries put european signatories to the iran deal on notice. we made a decision to implement that. not to stop its implementation not to work against it not like the americans will withdraw from it in a letter to him basters of the u.k. france germany china and russia president rouhani said those countries have sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions he said steps iran is taking remain in line with the wording of the nuclear deal iran remains committed to it and to maintaining peace in the region but exp

trumpet ministration is now warning that any country that continues to buy oil from iran will be violating u.s. sanctions so the question for china is whether it will continue to import oil from iran it has said that it will continue to trade with iran under existing legal frameworks but what we do know is that so far it doesn't look as though china has imported any oil from iran since the beginning of may now china of course has paid a heavy price for trading with iran the chief financial officer of war way monk $1.00 joe is currently in canada awaiting extradition to the united states where she's essentially accused of conspiring to violate u.s. sanctions on iran 2 years ago another chinese telecommunications company was fined more than a $1000000000.00 after admitting it was trading with iran so china's government understands now that the jurisdictional arm all the united states is. very long. india's near 7 week election is drawing to a close fishel campaigning on friday with this 7th and final phase of voting to be held on sunday governing b j p's campaign has been highly focused on prime minister n

the hydrocarbon sector the international monetary fund says inflation in iran could hit forty percent this year as u.s. sanctions have already had an impact on the economy i could get the iran oil down to zero immediately but it would cause a shock to the market i don't want to lift oil prices and if you notice or oil prices are going down very substantially despite the fact that already half of their capacity is gone so can the united states bring down iranian oil production to zero iran doesn't seem to think so feature me just trying to think you can drive iran's oil exports to zero by plane such games this is impossible around the oil exports would not be zero we will sell our oil through various methods the success of u.s. sanctions will depend on how the major buyers of in oil which are india china south korea japan and turkey react to u.s. pressure there's already been an impact on global oil prices which are peaks in the last few months to where seventy dollars a barrel the u.s. wants to keep oil prices low but that does not favor oil exporting countries economies rely on oil the white house will be looki

chirk you realize heavily on energy imports and iran has been here a very important partner as a direct neighbor of turkey even so the u.s. imposed sanctions on iran turkey received the baber and turkey was allowed to buy cheaper gas and from iran this has changed since last me president come from made very clear here he is out of the labor program this will put the turkish economy methods to be under pressure another example is the trade war between the us and china but potentially also with europe will affect the turkish exports also because turkey is have been linked with the european multinational enterprise its global economy slows down turkish exports slow down dirt can not change much on that front but on the domestic politics investors need signals for a reliable plan a bull policy and that is something which is not at that gender at the moment ok so you're talking about big external factors that are a play here not only the iran sanctions but also the u.s. china trade war and europe's influence on turkey as far as business goes but at the same time a little merrill election which seems to be throwing a cad amongst the pigeons. yes

u.s. withdrawal in january iran's european allies began looking. for alternative channels to keep trade going despite u.s. sanctions but the trump and ministration continued putting pressure on terror on last month the u.s. impose strict sanctions on iran in all exports and put iran's revolutionary guard on a list of terrorist organizations and recently the american aircraft carrier group the u.s.s. abraham lincoln was deployed to the strait of hormuz seventeen million barrels of oil are taken through the sea routes in the gulf every day iran has threatened to close it multiple times. let's bring in our guests in tehran mohammad marandi professor of north american studies at the university of tehran on skype from reston virginia rhenish a republican strategist and consultant and in berlin. this thing fellow brookings doha center a welcome to you all like to begin with you mohammad marandi in teheran this has been a very aggressive policy by this administration this u.s. administration to iran we are all is always expecting iran to react in your opinion is this a fair reaction the events of the day. i think it's a r

deal is putting the price of crude oil under up with pressure while iran's allies try to keep the nuclear deal afloat tighter u.s. sanctions on iranian oil exports have many countries worried about supplies iran's major or customers like india and china are already saying we will even all the sanctions. president hassan rouhani has responded to u.s. sanctions by threatening to resume its nuclear enrichment program if a new deal isn't reached terrine also threaten to close the strait of hormuz a clear threat to global oil supplies twenty percent of the world's oil passes through the narrow channel the u.s. has deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the middle east that's a strong message tensions are rising and jangling nerves on the oil market normally fears about the global economy during the rab between the u.s. and china would signal weak demand and drive prices down but u.s. sanctions on iran are tightening oil supplies and in coming weeks this is expected to drive prices higher analysts iran's threat to close off the hormuz strays as a kneejerk reaction and believe it's unlikely to happen but the tensions come i

u.s. sanctions on iran. down and out and disillusioned why some south africa so are out on the streets ahead of the coming election. in a sports a long way from within sport as the n.b.a. playoffs village of quadruple overtime for the first time in more than sixty that's coming up in just a little bit like. a massive cleanup is underway in india after. on friday at least twelve people were killed after the extreme storm battered additional state as more. a trail of destruction along india's eastern coast. with winds around two hundred kilometers per hour side confidently ripped apart homes in addition to state. toppled power lines and left uprooted trees covering the streets. i was really afraid when the storm hit us we were lucky that we were all downstairs if my children were up stairs they wouldn't have survived all our belongings our money everything is gone. the storm has weakened since making landfall on friday the extent of the flooding in the city of puri is clear to see with damaged crops and infras

iran's foreign minister job at serif china he's been tuning the region to shore up support after the u.s. tighten sanctions on iran's oil sector but china is part of the 2050 nuclear agreements and the biggest buyer of every indian oil but ties between them are now coming under pressure from washington as aging brain explains from beijing. both china and iran are involved in worsening disputes with the united states but china the issues trade for iran it's the threat of all iranian foreign minister zarif was last year 12 months ago just after the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear agreement that china helped broker it was meant to curb iran's nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief china and other nations roll out to keep. buying iranian oil as mohammed 30 and china is one of the most important partners of the slavic republic of iran it is also a political partner or a very close economic partner and also one of the remaining members of the nuclear deal monday during this new stage it is important to have close consultations with the chinese but earlier this month donald trump cancelled the exe

announced the middle sector sanctions after iran said it would reach that iranian enrichment if europe china and russia failed to deliver sanctions relief to iran blames the u.s. for leaving the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and re imposing sanctions but while the previous u.s. sanctions seem to target iran's leadership these latest measures strike ever closer to the country's eighty million people. even the latest sanctions previous ones already impacted our daily lives and they've been effective if we say they had no effect we'd be deceiving ourselves. of the twenty five million tons of steel products iran produces over thirty percent are sent abroad as the new sanctions go into effect president rouhani will have a tough time convincing hardliners to stick to the nuclear deal. america has been warning its allies around the world against using chinese tech supplier while way and building a next generation five g. mobile services the u.s. says while ways hardware is likely to be open to spying or sabotage by the chinese security services but the signs are that washington is fighting a losing battle more and more allies are ignoring the u.s. and refusing to excl

u.s. sanctions iran has given the european union china and russia 60 days to comply and ultimatum already rejects it spoil sport they say they remain committed to keeping the nuclear deal alive and they're urging iran not to abandon its. yes france has stayed in it and will stay in it and i deeply wish to iran will too it is up to us to work to convince everyone and iran to stay in it we remain fully committed to the full implementation of the disappear way of the nuclear deal it's a matter of security for us and for the entire world the european union investment in nonproliferation continues to be a top priority for us. their own foreign minister says europe's response is not strong enough mohamed judd serif tweets it's the e.u. statement today is why the j c p o a is where it is the u.s. has believed europe ants the rest of the world's for a year and a you can only express regrets instead of demanding that iran unilaterally abides by a multilateral accords the e.u. should uphold obligations including the normalization of economic ties well europe had speed working on a system called inst

u.s. has also made it harder for iran to dispose of any and rich to rainier and it's renewed some sanctions waivers that allow russia china the u.k. and france to work with iran on civilian nuclear projects president hassan rouhani says the u.s. is just trying to sow division amongst iranians gioia army corps about all your general getting as the united states is violating international laws and pressuring companies to prevent them cooperating with iran and seeking to weaken our currency and the independence of our country there are huge conspiracies against our country and the american administration is waging a political and psychological war against us and to seeking to change the regime in iran washington aims to spread division in the country and the iranians must unite to piece this war. you know turkey's economy is expected to continue to slump as the u.s. imposes further sanctions on iran's oil industry turkey is a major iranian customer and so now is having to look elsewhere for its energy supplies cynical sunni reports from istanbul. iran is the second largest oil supplier to turk

u.s. sanctions on iran. thailand crowns its new king two years after he inherited through art and eighteen women lined up on the grid is a new motor sports series gets underway joe will have all the details in sport. we've had some severe storms across the deep south of the u.s. anywhere from around say museum and i that's not the takes up of music very calm down it's a walk and saw a into texas but if this area of cloud has some flooding to into the say following a tornado that ripped across that eastern side of texas and this wild weather is now making its way further eastward alabama stings a nasty weather to go through sunday and the mid atlantic states just pushing up towards new york into battery fourteen celsius plateau right comes back in behind not out of the woods just yet so some more of a shower still a possibility across the central plains and northern plains too i was towards the west but it's five and dry here sixty celsius in san francisco eighteen in seattle and nineteen for l.a. maybe an ei

u.s. withdrawal in january iran's european allies began looking. for alternative channels to keep trade going despite u.s. sanctions but the trump and ministration continued putting pressure on terror on last month the u.s. imposed strict sanctions on iran in all exports and put iran's revolutionary guard on a list of terrorist organizations and recently the american aircraft carrier group the u.s.s. abraham lincoln was deployed to the strait of hormuz seventeen million barrels of oil are taken through the sea routes in the gulf every day iran has threatened to close it multiple times. let's bring in our guests in tehran mohammad marandi professor of north american studies at the university of tehran on skype from reston virginia rhenish a republican strategist and consultant and in berlin. this thing followed brookings doha center a welcome to you all like to begin with you mohammad marandi in teheran this has been a very aggressive policy by this administration this u.s. administration to iran we are all is always expecting iran to react in your opinion is this a fair reaction the events of the day. i think it's

its stockpiles below maximum thresholds in return international sanctions on iran were lifted ending the country's economic isolation but u.s. sanctions were reintroduce stuff to washington withdrew from the accord last year president don trump accused iran of violating the spirit of the agreement despite it passing a u.n. inspections will form this week and cross live now to share a town see who is in washington d.c. for us i guess the message iran is sending with their statement is that the status quo as it has been for the past year is really unsustainable as far as they're concerned a message which i guess hasn't been received in that way in washington considering that almost from imposed further sanctions. right the question is now the pressure is still on them for the other signatories of the deal to try and come up with some sort of all terms of mechanism for keeping trade up with with iran these these new sanctions like the oil sanctions that were imposed then strengthened quite recently attempt not just to target those with in iran involved in the steel aluminum and copper industries but are also going to attempt t

the nuclear bargain of the nuclear agreement which means that international trade with iran despite u.s. sanctions that have been unilaterally reimposed are in fact compensated for by a trade mechanism that the europeans have set up but this has to become functional and operational so that iran has received its end of the bargain so these now require germany in the u.k. and france and russia and china it requires all of those powers to do something about u.s. sanctions against iran will they. this is the important question here i mean in fact we can see that political statements and grievances towards washington's decision to unilaterally leave withdraw from the agreement these statements have been voiced but the the action has so far been limited so the expectation from tehran will be that within the next sixty days some form of concrete action in terms of oil sales of iran and the transfer of of oil income to iran will be made possible so that iran sees some benefit in complying to the nuclear agreement ok so this is what iran wants but like i said this is going to require. essentially europe an

and to iran where president hassan rouhani has warned that the country would resume its nuclear enrichment program after the u.s. said it would not extend exemptions to sanctions u.s. sanctions on iran and venezuela tightening also problems is suspected to drive prices in the coming weeks could be other trade related pitfalls ahead iran's biggest oil consumer customer rather china as threatened to ignore the u.s. sanctions because tehran is a key ally in its road infrastructure project. if chinese energy company has just signed a deal worth more than a billion dollars to recover natural gas from iraq's giant how file oilfield representatives from china's cppcc and petro china signed the agreement in baghdad with iraq's ministry of oil the chinese say the gas processing plant will be able to recover and refine three hundred million cubic feet of gas pradesh its plans to be operational in two and a half years deal comes a day after iraq announced plans for a fifty three billion dollar and energy project with x x a mobile and better charge . fees but germany's geographical location smack bang in the middle of europe means that intra european commercial traffic is

u.s. sanctions. iran is dependent on income from the sale of oil. washington's sanctions have choked off that money supply. >> we will do our best to enforce the american sanctions that has been put in place. collects all differences aside, pompeo reaffirmed that germany nevertheless remains an important ally of the u.s.. >> it looks as if president trump is starting a new trade conflict, this time with mexico. he has threatened to impose new tariffs on mexico if it does not do a better job of stopping migrants from trying to enter the u.s. trump says he will slap duties on all goods from mexico and keep raising tariffs if the mexican government does not act fast. here is more. >> touchdown in washington amidst gathering storm clouds. president trump trump declared trade war on the u.s. is southern able by tweets. he wrote "on june 10, you also impose a 5% tariff on all goods from mexico until such time as legal met -- illegal migrants stop." the u.s. president, signaling he is ready to keep raising those tariffs until he satisfied -- he is satisfie

u.s. trade sanctions are also on the minds of european union leaders but this time it's u.s. sanctions against iran e.u. leaders have urged the islamic republic to stand by its commitments under the nuclear deal which was agreed with world powers back in twenty fifteen the u.s. withdrew from the deal a year ago and iran is now threatening to abandon it unless the other signatories of the european signatories provide quick relief from u.s. sanctions. it was supposed to be the post breaks it summit shaping the e.u. future without britain well the u.k. may not yet be out it did not attend the talks a welcome respite from bracks it deadlocked but another topic overshadowed the proceedings iran's threat to have banned and the nuclear deal signed with world powers in twenty fifteen e.u. leaders of tehran to think again for the ones that will be he got us here it's now even more important that europe shows a united front. we do not want an escalation but we want to keep using diplomatic tools. we know our limitations but we all agree that the more united europe is the better the chance we have of using di

than before an exchange the other parties agreed to lift nuclear related sanctions on iran but that did not include separate u.s. sanctions that were not related to the nuclear program and even before president donald trump pulled out of the deal last year iran has long complained that washington did not do enough to ease its banking restrictions let's speak to. his see a co-founder and c.e.o. of center for applied research in partnership with the orient and he advise european policymakers on iran he is joining us via skype from thanks very much for speaking to us so now the european signatories find themselves in a situation where to iran is saying you have sixty days basically to take any action what do you think they're going to do. there is no doubt that this will further complicate the quest to save guard the agreement but at the same time there is also this notion of escalating in order to deescalate so i can imagine that with iran showing a clear role now of what a gradual withdrawal from the agreement could look like could look like it might be more easier even now for the europeans to leave make up the

iran. hours before more pressure from u.s. sanctions to her and welcomed an important guest the boss of opec his visit to an oil and gas exhibition a signal that iran remains an important member of at least one very powerful cup of nations. this comes to us with just. what divides us when the united states reimposed sanctions it granted waivers to some of the runs biggest customers ending those waivers and iran supply means prices at the pump are likely to rise to address suggestions by u.s. president donald trump that some opec members namely saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. might increase production to make up for iranian oil not making it to market it's probably potentially more dangerous to the very existence of the organization not to talk of it but does it with none of that. is. the morse to divide this organization to saw in the seeds of discord. to the extent that. we look at it we're to sit down and took decisions let alone implemented together needing to meet market demand has been an important part of how iran has k

u.s. sanctions iran has given the european union china and russia 60 days to comply and ultimatum already rejects it spoil sport they say they remain committed to keeping the nuclear deal alive and they're urging iran not to abandon its. yes france has stayed in it and will stay in it and i deeply wish to iran will too it is up to us to work to convince everyone and iran to stay in it we remain fully committed to the full implementation of the disappear way of the nuclear deal it's a matter of security for us and for the entire world the european union investment in nonproliferation continues to be a top priority for us. their own foreign minister says europe's response is not strong enough mohamed judd serif tweet seats the e.u. statement today is flying the j c p u a is where it is the u.s. has bullied europe ants the rest of the world's for a year and a you can only express regrets instead of demanding that iran unilaterally abides by a multilateral accords the e.u. should uphold obligations including the normalization of economic ties well europe had speed working on a system called in

u.s. sanctions iran is primarily dependent on income from the sale of oil washington sanctions have effectively choked off that money supply. we will do our best to enforce the american sanctions regime that is but it been put in place all differences aside pompei i did reaffirm that germany nevertheless remains an important ally of the us do you ever use chief political correspondent melinda crane is following this story for a time melinda on the surface it looks like 2 allies meeting but if you look not very far below the surface you see a whole host of disagreement some turmoil tell us more about how you perceive this meeting. well in fact we heard a lot of professions of friendship and partnership and statements about how very very important transatlantic ties are but as you said once you dig deeper the devil is in the details and particularly on the question of iran it is quite evident that they may agree on the broad goal of trying to keep iran from getting nuclear weapons and trying to limit iran's support for terrorism and also its ballistic missiles program but they certainly do not ag

negotiations ahead it's a different difficult position indeed terry looking down the road with iran facing u.s. sanctions the european union can't alone prop up iran's economy so what are the u.s. hopes long term that the this agreement can be effective. yes that's the problem the u.s. is not only sanctioning iran it threatens to sanction e.u. companies who do business with iran and that's why the e.u. has been working now for a year to set up what it calls a special purpose vehicle which would allow cash transfers which would allow financial transactions with iran in a way that could avoid u.s. sanctions they're hoping to get that set up i mean it's already behind schedule and that's something that iran is pointing out it's getting a bit impatient in hopes for that it also hopes that russia and china will step up and increase their trade with iran to boost the iranian economy to the point where the regime says ok we are getting enough benefit out of the nuclear deal to stay and it to keep our enrichment well curbed our correspondents here are saying all right our correspondent breaking down this story f

house's classification of iran's revolutionary guards as terrorists there has responded with labeling u.s. troops in the middle east as terrorists but under unilateral u.s. sanctions iran's economy is struggling its influence in the region from syria to yemen is under the spotlight so how will iran cope with the crisis affecting everyone in the country the iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif talks to out of there. let's begin with the latest legislation that has come out. about declaring u.s. forces in the middle east as terrorists describe to us why do you think that is important and what will that achieve. well it's not a measure that we have taken their proximity in fact it was a reaction to a decision by united states why did ministration to declare. the i.r.g.c. to stomach evolutionary god corpse as a terrorist organization as you know destroy organization has been in the forefront of fighting terrorism in iraq and in syria enough on the stand but unfortunately because of their own interest and because of the fact that a few in our region and and in the united states want to stick it up trouble in this region as you know with netanyahu said in hebre

u.s. pressure. and in moscow iran found support from a strong friend at a critical time russia blamed the united states for single handedly undermining the twenty fifty nuclear deal and said u.s. sanctions against iran are unacceptable and illegitimate. all of this has been lamentable behavior by the u.s. we hear break u.s. statements from the u.s. to stop any iranian influence not just in syria but across the region it's unrealistic to terminate this in clint's and it has no chance as a serious policy iran may be economically isolated but the message from russia is that iran is not alone. together the foreign ministers of both countries put european signatories to the iran deal on notice. because i hadn't he. made a decision to implement that. not to stop its implementation not to work against it not like the americans withdraw from it in a letter to him basters of the u.k. france germany china and russia president rouhani said those countries have sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions he said steps iran is taking remain in line with the wording of the nuclear deal iran remains committed to it and to maintaining peace in th