sanctions for about forty years up to now iran has resisted it and has been able to hand though iran has been greatly damaged because of the u.s. sanctions their aim and the objective of the u.s. sanctions is to bring your reign in the economy to a total collapse i believe the u.s. would prayed that are there beginning of the u.s. sanction is tool to bring regime change in iran i believe this is something the united states has experienced for war has already failed and the once again president trump would fade in his strategy to bring regime change in iraq this time is the friend be occur the united state of shelley has why elated the united nations security can console dissolution because the un security council resolution two two three one approved a rainier nuclear deal and the united states is the only member of u.n. security council to draw your needle. really and to violate the sanctions and the second fact is the are there members of permanent member of united nations security council russia china europe they are your to defend and to support the u.n. resolution and the irania

sanctions on iran to using b.b.'s not bombs just sound up for palestinians speech watching all the civil walk through of going under the rug. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be precise this is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first city. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution of you tube clip the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still or here i mean you are live with video of the. split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four. those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. welcome back this week the u.n. sent a special report only stream poverty and human rights to britain to investigate the h

supported invasion of iran this was a big mistake when saddam invaded kuwait iran stood by. them invasion of kuwait however the us war in iraq are enough cornerstone saudi arabia u.s. war on yemen nato a war on leave may have had nine wars nearing the last twenty thirty years which all has happened are there by the us or by a nato will or joint cooperation between our neighboring countries and nato and the us like man like lead like iraq what about the fact that israel was one of the first countries to welcome donald trump's decision. leading to some critics say that the us is basically outsourced foreign policy to israel israelis saudis did the right thing to impede a peaceful resolution of the rainier nuclear crisis they did everything to create another war in iran everyone knows israelis they did everything to push the us to attack iraq it is well known and now they did everything the us to attack iran to create another design. for the region when trump took the office i believe netanyahu took the opportunity to convience him to withdraw from the nuclear deal to go to con

iran are european countries, to stay clear of iran. iran will find it harder to sell oil and find it harder to sell oil and find it harderfor harder to sell oil and find it harder for businesses to buy raw materials. the gulf news highlighting how difficult it will be for iran and the economy and the residents, but will it have the desired effect? it was the tough sanctions that brought iran to the negotiating table last time to the deal. what will happen this time? we will have to wait and see. iran is not a single place. it's a very political place, it's a place where you have many hardliners who say we will take the pain no matter what. at the same time, pragmatists will say we have to negotiate and do something. that split is coming more intense. president rouhani is in a difficult position, losing allies quickly. and on the streets. you have a report earlier, we have seen trouble on the streets were people, for economic reasons, saying we've had enough. we will see that economic tightening and we will see whether more and more peo

with sanctions on iran will they. you never know i mean beijing was the beijing and moscow actually during the obama administration were what were the biggest susannah's helpers we got to see how it works out here but again president trump has turned up the rhetoric against china on a whole host of trade issues but last week we saw the president reaching out to the chinese and a lot of analysts saw that as a precursor to trying to sort of appease the chinese on some issues to get some more sort of concessions on putting pressure on iran but again as i said i don't think chinese businesses are going to go along fully and help out iran on the other hand there will be some trickling down to assist iran and iran will appreciate that but again they will be losing money because this as i said when you're in the position of you know the beggars can't be choosers so we'll see if we'll see what happens here iraq's are a mess thank you very much for talking to al jazeera now fighting has intensified around the port city of had

keeping iran will not be the only challenge for europe to keep iran in the nuclear deal with american sanctions at full strength and more said to be on the way they'll also have to figure out how to turn the temperature down between hawks and to iran and washington. well the e.u. along with china and russia remain committed to the nuclear deal but fighting the sanctions is proving difficult the bloke is trying to set up a special purpose vehicle to avoid penalties but that plan still lacks practical details in the meantime companies that need access to u.s. markets are leaving iran swift the belgium based global financial messaging system also said that it would fall into line with the u.s. restrictions and its disconnecting blacklisted iranian banks as the iran sanctions came into force firms put forward the idea of boosting the role of the euro but challenging the power of the dollar may prove difficult well the dollar is just one of the world's one hundred eighty five currency it when it comes to foreign exchange it is the king in ninety percent of global foreign exchange trading i

we'll see what happens with iran but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions while they're showing this is an economic war we're standing up to a billing enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no difference. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran ramping up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. and the sanctions cut deep let's find out just how they are affecting the people in iraq europe because it is a correspondent with german public broadcasters idiot and he joins us now from the iranian capital of tehran your before you set the scene for us on how this latest round of u.s. sanctions are affecting the local economy what are these punitive measures designed to do. you know officially the u.s. government denies that aiming for a regime change in iran although they would definitely appreciate

keeping iran will not be the only challenge for europe to keep iran in the nuclear deal with american sanctions at full strength and more said to be on the way they'll also have to figure out how to turn the temperature down between hawks and to iran and washington. well the e.u. along with china and russia remain committed to the nuclear deal but fighting the sanctions is proving difficult the bloke is trying to set up a special purpose vehicle to avoid penalties but that plan still lacks practical details in the meantime companies that need access to u.s. markets are leaving iran swift the belgium based global financial messaging system also said that it would fall into line with the u.s. restrictions and its disconnecting blacklisted iranian banks as the iran sanctions came into force france put forward the idea of boosting the role of the euro but challenging the power of the dollar may prove difficult well the dollar is just one of the world's one hundred eighty five currencies that when it comes to foreign exchange it is the king in ninety percent of global foreign exchange trad

oil from iran none of them are going to get any types of currency back to iran and iran can only import humanitarian goods or necessary goods those moves that are not subject to sanctions back to iran so they're kind of bartering their oil for food or medicine and are necessary goods as you said the chess game is is far from complete here all these sanctions from the u.s. point of view go to work. they fail iran seems to be fairly confident that it can withstand these sanctions if they do fail from an american point of view does that signal that the dollar can no longer be used as a foreign policy weapon. yes i agree with your question because now we have european union that they are coming up with a specific channels of trade with iran banking transaction with iran and if our if these channels are built for a more formal and more usable ways of working with iran this of course is going to weaken nine's and dollar as it were and also iraq is now selling its oil in a local currency to these countries so i agree i mean if he pushed this more or if we want to use this as a weapon is going

president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions result for a vote. we'll see what happens with the rod but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we're standing up to a building enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no difference. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran ramping up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. and the sanctions cut deep let's find out just how they are affecting the people in iran europe because it is a correspondent with german public broadcasters a day off and he joins us now from the iranian capital of tehran europe before you set the scene for us on how this latest round of u.s. sanctions are affecting the local economy what are these punitive measures designed to do. you know

and they'll apply to any country trading with iran. iran is the third biggest producer in the opec club of oil exporting nations, accounting for more that 10% of opec's total output. that works out as roughly 3.4 million barrels of crude oil every day. but goldman sachs says it expects sanctions so slash iran's exports to 1.2 million barrels per day by the end of the year. oil prices have gone up over the last year or so, after several fluctuations a barrel of crude is worth about $15 more than it was a year ago. and less oilfrom iran could make prices go up still further. washington imposed lesser sanctions on iran earlier this year. so what impact are those measures having on everyday life for iranians? the bbc‘s ali hashem visited isfahan, iran's third biggest city, and he brings in this report a rare glimpse of how businesses there are coping. the heart of iran breasts here, in the czar. people pouring every day to the market. —— bizarre. the/ in it is like the bathroom, it keeps everything together. they are meant to be alwa

for iran and. iran. one of the reasons president donald trump gave to pull out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions on iran was the country's growing military influence in the middle east. and their ballistic missiles program. so it was perhaps not a coincidence that iranian scheduled one of their largest military exercises of the year on the same day as u.s. sanctions kicked back in. multiple air defense units took part in war games spanning half a million square kilometers across the country. and as the missiles took flight on the ground the iranian president lobbed insults at the american president to have was by only able to go scout that i don't think any other administration in the history of the united states has been as opposed to the law and international treaties i've not seen any administration in the white house as racist as these people and you cannot expect anything else from them in a speech to his recently shaken up economic team rouhani laid out a broad plan for the f

sanctions on iran. european symmetries condemn them. also on the program, russia, china and norway block efforts to set up the largest marine reserve in antarctctica. revelations from the world of football. a german magazine reports that bayern munich wants to create an elite league with the world plus -- world's six top clubs. phil: welcome to the program. the united states is to reinstate all of the sanctions against iran that had been part of the nuclear deal. president trump tried to drive the point home and -- in an unconventional fashion. he said tariffs are coming. he said that this was from game of thrones. it is based off of "winter is coming." mr. trump had this to say a short while ago. >> they are very serious sanctions. they are very big. sanctions are starting on iran. iran is taking a very big hits. the country is not the same country as when i started almost two years ago. iran is a different country since i terminated that deal. phil: let's get more from our dw correspondent. what does

said that iran was committed to the deal committed to its promises so the deal is going on and iran is committed to its promises so we are waiting for the trumpet ministration to come back to the negotiating table all the partners of these two national deal are still around the negotiating table but the trouble is mr administration. left the negotiations and they're fifty zero so we are going to wait for them to discover what and the obama administration discovered before the sanctions will not help to make peace ok. and sure let me ask you do you think that the trumpet administration has actually articulated what they think is wrong with the deal besides as france was saying just that it was something that happened under the obama administration do you think that they have actually articulated what they don't like about the deal. yes they have multiple times little bit more trouble ministration have some of the top disagreements being the sunset clause iran could start and reaching uranium in about eight years in about ten years and all those ten to fifteen years and all the sanctions

if it feels that the deal is no longer worth it for iran that iran will retain the right to begin reaching nuclear material once again all right thank you scott heiler has more from beijing on what president xi thinks about the u.s. is decision to reimpose sanctions on iran china is the world's largest importer of iranian oil so obviously these sanctions would hit this energy hungry country very hard now earlier on monday a spokeswoman with the ministry of foreign affairs said that the legal trade agreements between iran and china need to be respected she went on to say that the united states and its decision to reimpose these sanctions on iran is regrettable she also said that china stands with those nations who have vowed to uphold the agreement with iran that the united states has backed out of now obviously this comes at a very interesting time when trade frictions between the united states and china are at an all time high but also it comes at a time when the united states needs china's role in its negotiation with north korea let's make to remy brazeau he's an economist at the french

financial system so that countries can buy oil from iran and keep doing business with iran we'll get to see that implemented but in the meantime what we have seen as major european companies pull out of the country so in the meantime is it still is the cost of doing business with iran still too high for the companies that really matter the big play is. right i mean the europeans a lot of the promises they made six months ago have not really materialized i mean as you pointed out major european companies such as oil giant to tar or car make europe asia have already left iran and iran is still waiting for the package and for the alternative to the swift system from the europeans in this is why there is a lot of criticism within iran especially from conservatives against the wrong on the government say that iran should also withdraw from the deal never the less the europeans are telling iran swades in this will come into effect in the coming weeks and months we'll have to wait and see to see how much the europeans will be able to defy u.s. sanctions less of a savvy thank you very much f

sanctions against iran iran's supreme leader ali khamenei has slammed president u.s. president almost trump after the u.s. announced it would reinstate all sanctions against iran there are new restrictions will come into force on monday after being lifted three years ago. meanwhile thousands of iranians staged a rally in tehran to mark the anniversary of the u.s. embassy takeover the crowd waved and to us ban isn't chanted down with the usa while the power struggle between the governments of us and iran escalates here's a look at want more sanctions might mean for people in iran america's professor and it's finishing this six story apartment building there's no project lined up next he's been building homes for ten years employing one hundred fifty people when times were good now there's just fifty new contracts have dried up because no one's confident enough to invest right now. but those whom i send it to sanctions are putting iran's economy under even more pressure they're causing enormous uncertain dean over night or money you can lose a third or a quarter of its

last week steve mnuchin announced iran had developed an iran-russian network to send oil to syria. this is used to fund terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas. the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence explained, quote, the iranian regime continues to prioritize spending on money to foment terror over supporting its own people. president trump has made correct decisions to impose sanctions on individuals related to this scheme as he continues to fulfill promises made, promises kept. in conclusion, god bless our troops and we will never forget september 11 and the global war on terrorism. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor the 50th wedding anniversary of my good friends, woody and linda, who people who are true examples of commitment to the covenant

said that iran was committed to the deal committed to its promises so the deal is going on and iran is committed to its promises so we are waiting for the trumpet ministration to come back to the negotiating table all the partners of these two national deal are still around the negotiating table but the trouble is mr administration. left the negotiations and they're fifty zero so we are going to wait for them to discover what and the obama administration discovered before the sanctions will not help to make peace ok. i'm sure let me ask you do you think that the trumpet administration has actually articulated what they think is wrong with the deal besides as france was saying just that it was something that happened under the obama administration do you think that they have actually articulated what they don't like about the deal. yes they have multiple times multiple deployments rather ministration have some of the top disagreements the sunset clause that iran could start and reaching uranium in about eight years in about ten years and all those ten to fifteen years and all the sancti

said that iran was committed to the deal committed to its promises so the deal is going on and iran is committed to its promises so we are waiting for the trumpet ministration to come back to the negotiating table all the partners of these two national deal are still around the negotiating table but the trouble is mr administration. left the negotiations and they're fifty zero so we are going to wait for them to discover what and the obama administration discovered before the sanctions will not help to make peace ok. and sure let me ask you do you think that the trumpet administration has actually articulated what they think is wrong with the deal besides as france was saying just that it was something that happened under the obama administration do you think that they have actually articulated what they don't like about the deal. yes they have multiple times will be able to trumpet ministration have some of the top disagreements being the sunset clause that iran could start and reaching uranium in about eight years in about ten years and all those ten to fifteen years and all the sanc

iran will have to to accept instead inspect iran will still be bound by its signature of the nonproliferation treaty to nuclear nonproliferation treaty and so iran is not free and this is this has to be quite clear even after the end of the agreement iran will not be free to do what it would like to do if it wants to to build a bomb that will be again it's. let's say the international law applying to iran so in fact the main criticism one of the many protested against this agreement will the fact that it is limited to the nuclear to the nuclear field but one has to consider that. the question was already very complex if the negotiator. is. tooth. from to hold on to a two thousand and fifteen tried to negotiate about everything about the role of iran in the region about its ballistic program there would have been no agreement so also the in fact the choice was made to limit the negotiation to do nuclear field hoping that a good implementation of this agreement would open other new ok so let me go toward us laboring true and to that because through what about that that perhaps it would it had b

president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions result for a vote. we'll see what our friends were the rock but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions while they're showing this is an economic war we're standing up to a believing enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us to day it is trump there is no death bulis shame. ramping up the rhetoric iran is pointing the finger at donald trump and its leaders talking tough in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. and let's get more now with correspondent your browser who is joining us from tehran he is a correspondent with the german public broadcaster c they asked new york we saw the regime bringing out tens of thousands of supporters over the weekend how are these tough sanctions likely to affect support for iran's leader leaders. well what we saw the pictures we saw on the weekend of course was

iran iran and that isn't enough for capitol hill any more i think this particular bill is highly unlikely from a lot but i think you're going to see senators block funding for the pentagon you will see centers potentially risk funding for the cia and the director of the hospital is going to be asked to come up and testify i think we're going to see that potentially come up in the next few weeks because the senate is not on with business and i think democrats are going to be pushing for that very hard because you know in january yes he'll take the house but there's actually an expanded republican majority in the senate so they're going to be concerned they're going to want this before that change. the matter is hanging heavily over the saudi crown prince as he arrives in argentina for the g. twenty summit of world leaders out of their history is a by reports from when i was aries. he was the first foreign leader to arrive to win a society mohammed bin salmen landed here early on wednesday morning to attend the g. twenty summit a visit filled with controversy after the murder of a saudi jou

companies from doing business with iran which meant iran's oil industry was directly targeted for the first time he described iran and libya as two of the most dangerous supporters of terrorism in the world the first significant pressure on iran directly related to its nuclear program came from george w. bush in twenty ten were obama signed it to draw used actions he described as the toughest ever passed by congress they were aimed at uranium banks and its oil and gas sector a breakthrough was finally reached in twenty fifteen with the iran nuclear deal iranian assets worth hundred billion dollars one force and but earlier the c.e.o. donald trump withdrew from that agreement leading to renewed u.s. economic sanctions in two phases the first came in august and ninety days later november the second round of sanctions targeting iran's ukridge of oil exports an energy industry are coming into force well despite the u.s. withdrawal from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal the e.u. russia and china are all.

president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions result for a vote. we'll see what happens with the run but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions or that this is an economic war we're standing up to a believing enemy yes that he said i'm hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message he ran up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. let's cross to tehran your browser is standing by he is a correspondent with the german public broadcaster say the f. as we mentioned there york iran has responded to the new sanctions with military maneuvers what message is the drill intended to send. when i think it's obviously meant to send the message of strength and preparedness to their own people to the iranian population it show tell them

president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions result ever of. we'll see what happens with the run but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but iran shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we're standing up to the billing enemy yes that he said i'm hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into an anti regime sentiment. back here at the big table now with an ing reka he is head of the usa trans-atlantic relations program of the german council of foreign relations with this slapping of new sanctions on iran the u.s. really is now in a go it alone policy when it comes to iran and it leaves europe in a very difficult position doesn't it it does because europe has an interest to do this together with america we had the grea

president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions present ever. we'll see what happens with the run but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we're standing up to a building enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran ramping up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. or earlier we spoke with a correspondent with the german public broadcaster in tehran and we asked him what these punitive measures are designed to do. you know officially the u.s. government denies that they aiming for a regime change in iran although they would definitely appreciate it so the iranian leadership was convinced that this is the actual driving force behind the sanctions and my impressio

we'll see what happens with the iran but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we're standing up to a billion enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message. up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. back here at the big table now with an ing reka he is head of the usa trans-atlantic relations program of the german council of foreign relations with this slapping of new sanctions on iran the u.s. really is now in a go it alone policy when it comes to iran and it leaves europe in a very difficult position doesn't it it does because europe has an interest to do this together with america we had the greatest success of pressure on iran when we did this together and now. in an irony iran has achieved one of its most supreme goals that is to

president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions recover and. we'll see what africans were the rock but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but the regime shows little sign of conceding on sunday parliamentarian show to death to america. leo chants of the arena and revolution take on new force in the face of the sanctions to run them economic war. so where's this headed with me now in the studio is every correspondent and around expert to research good morning tree so we saw some big demonstrations for the regime in tehran this weekend how were these sanctions likely to affect the support publicly for the reigning leadership well they certainly bring out the islamic republic's most vocal supporter the that's the hardliners they've always been critical of the nuclear agreement and didn't supported that much in the first place and yesterday they took to the streets in tehran to mark the anniversary of the season of the u.s. embassy in tehran back during the islamic revolution in one nine hu

iran a lot of these tributaries of the of the tigris flow from iran but iran really accounts for some of their twenty percent of the water flow into the iraqi water system eighty percent comes turkey and syria so turkey is much more important partner in this in this aspect we have to we have to have some kind of regional water water treaty a water. system that allows for the various demands of these various countries without destroying the the cultural viability of the down down the river countries downstream countries in this case iraq these are i mean well established procedures and systems for creating by that's real and multilateral treaties riparian treaties that allow for the distribution of water and equitable way this has been ignored because of the crisis in iraq for the last forty years has not been a party to any of these agreements turkey went ahead and built its huge dam system without really much much consideration of what was going to happen downstream same thing happened in syria with the building of a top down. the said lake and so on very little consideration was giv

president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions recovery. will see what happens with the run but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but iran shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we are standing up to the billing enemy yes that he said hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. back here at the big table now with an ing reka he is head of the usa trans-atlantic relations program of the german council of foreign relations with this slapping of new sanctions on iran the u.s. really is now in a go it alone policy when it comes to iran and it leaves europe in a very difficult position doesn't it it does because europe has an interest to do this together with america we had the greatest success

we'll see what happens with iran but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions that show this is an economic war we're standing up to a billing enemy yes that he said i'm hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no difference. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran ramping up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. are back here at the big table now with and then recall he is head of the u.s. a trans-atlantic relations program of the german council of foreign relations with this slapping of new sanctions on iran that the u.s. really is now in a go it alone policy when it comes to iran and it leaves europe in a very difficult position doesn't it if it does because europe has an interest to do this together with america we had the greatest success of pressure on the iran when we did this together and now. in an irony iran has a

keeping iran will not be the only challenge for europe to keep iran in the nuclear deal with american sanctions at full strength and more said to be on the way they'll also have to figure out how to turn the temperature down between hawks and to iran and washington. well the e.u. along with china and russia remain committed to the nuclear deal but fighting the sanctions is proving difficult the bloke is trying to set up a special purpose vehicle to avoid penalties but that plan still lacks practical details in the meantime companies that need access to u.s. markets are leaving iran swift the belgium based global financial messaging system also said that it would fall into line with the u.s. restrictions and its disconnecting blacklisted iranian banks as their own sanctions came into force from support for the idea of boosting the role of the euro but challenging the power of the dollar may prove difficult well the dollar is just one of the world's one hundred eighty five currency when it comes to foreign exchange it is the king in ninety percent of global foreign exchange trading invo

iran a lot of these tributaries of the of the tigris flow from iran but iran really accounts for something like twenty percent of the water flow into the iraqi water system eighty percent comes turkey and syria so turkey is much more important partner in this in this aspect we have to we have to have some kind of regional water water treaty a water. system that allows for the various demands of these various countries without destroying the the cultural viability of the down down the river countries downstream countries in this case iraq these are i mean well established procedures and systems for creating bilateral and multilateral treaties riparian treaties that allow for the distribution of water and equitable way this has been ignored because of the crisis in iraq for the last forty years has not been a party to any of these agreements turkey went ahead and built its huge dam system without really much much consideration of what was going to happen downstream same thing happened in syria with the building of the said lake and so on very little consideration was given to the effect on.

companies from doing business with iran which meant iran's oil industry was directly targeted for the first time he described iran and libya as two of the most dangerous supporters of terrorism in the world the first significant pressure on iran directly related to its nuclear program came from george w. bush in twenty ten were obama signed it to draw used actions he described as the toughest ever passed by congress they were aimed at uranium banks and its oil and gas sector a breakthrough was finally reached in twenty fifteen with the iran nuclear deal iranian assets worth hundred billion dollars one force and but earlier this year donald trump with two from that agreement leading to renewed u.s. economic sanctions in two phases the first came in august and ninety days later november the second round of sanctions targeting iran's lucrative oil exports and energy industry are coming into force well despite the u.s. withdrawal from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal the e.u. russia and china are all.

president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions resolver of. we'll see what happens with the run but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we're standing up to a billing enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no difference. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ramping up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. are back here at the big table now with and then recall he is head of the u.s. a trans-atlantic relations program of the german council of foreign relations with this slapping of new sanctions on iran the u.s. really is now in a go it alone policy when it comes to iran and it leaves europe in a very difficult position doesn't it if it does because europe has an interest to do this together with america

am sure there were gaps in our meetings about iran, gaps in our perceptions about iran. but i am sure whatever our gaps were, our leader, our president was not as ignorant about iran as the supreme leader of iran was about the united states. i hope that is still the case. [laughter] jeffrey: um. wouldools include red instruction, because i do not think either russia or held fors to be before reconstruction, and there will be a move toward reconstruction carrie. this will be waiting at to get the migrants back into their homeland. but to use reconstruction effectively as a lever, you have to have unity of donor countries, and it worries me because i am not sure the united states will be able to promote unified approach on reconstruction given the jt the declaration of the european union is an enemy. anyway, thank you. iran.ould like to stay on is talking about in u.s. intelligence. i realize you have been outside of u.s. government for some time, but what do you think the u.s. intelligence is right now with respect to iran? picture,ys have a good to be in this position wi

oil from iran none of them are going to get any types of currency back to iran and iran can only import humanitarian goods or this is where it goes those moves that are not subject to sanctions back to iran so they're kind of bartering their oil for food or medicine or necessary goods but you said the chess game is is far from complete here all these sanctions from the u.s. point of view go to work or will they they fail iran seems to be fairly confident that it can withstand these sanctions if they do fail from an american point of view does that signal that the dollar can no longer be used as a foreign policy weapon yes i agree with your question because now we have european union that they are coming up with as specific channels of trade would be iran banking at transaction with iran and if these channels are built for a more of formal and more usable. ways of working with iran this of course is going to weaken i know and dollar as it were and also iraq is now selling its oil in a local currency to these countries so i agree i mean if he pushed this more or if we want to use this as

we'll see what happens with iran but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions for their heritage this is an economic war we're standing up to a believing enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no difference if you lose shame. ramping up the rhetoric iran is pointing the finger at donald trump and its leaders talking tough in a bid to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. and let's get more now with correspondent your browser who is joining us from tehran he is a correspondent with the german public broadcaster at c.b.s. new york we saw the regime bringing out tens of thousands of supporters over the weekend how are these tough sanctions likely to affect support for iran's leader leaders. well what we saw the pictures we saw on the weekend of course was a well stage propaganda show organized by the iranian government as you said they shipped thousands of people from all over the country

we'll see what happens with iran but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions for their heritage this is an economic war we're standing up to a billion enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death bulis shame. ramping up the rhetoric iran is pointing the finger at donald trump and its leaders talking tough in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. and let's get more now with correspondent your browser who is joining us from tehran he is a correspondent with the german public broadcaster c they asked new york we saw all the regime bringing out tens of thousands of supporters over the weekend how are these tough sanctions likely to affect support for iran's leader leaders. well what we saw the pictures we saw on the weekend of course was a well stage propaganda show organized by the iranian government as you said they should thousands of people from all over the country to to i

iran sanctions or not. most of those companies have already announced that they're pulling out the large companies anyway companies like to haul. siemens and we're going to see more of those i think it's pretty well expected if you listen to the u.s. government spokesman the u.s. special representative on iran brian hook he says that you know the companies have mostly complied already and that the u.s. may not even need to impose sanctions on anyone because they have already made the decisions he said if you're a c.e.o. and you're given the choice to do business with the u.s. or ron is going to be the quickest decision you ever make so the u.s. is very confident that that european companies are going to follow their orders and pull out of iran even as the european union says it wants very much to keep these european companies. doing business with the regime in order to keep the nuclear deal intact. reported from brussels thank you terry. meanwhile in the united states democrats and republicans are making th

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in iran the government has been. elected by the people by the majority of the people there is democracy there you've. women's rights i'm not saying everything is perfect but we have never had an issue with for example driving little on other things and. let's say what he said would be arabia doing in yemen what did they do and still try to do in syria is there any. action that you can. call. supported by the popular governments in those countries where did all the ousted. president of these countries in the middle east and that up showing up was it not saudi arabia supporting them and. even arming and funding the terrorists in syria and in iraq and then. i think right now almost everyone knows saudi arabia and the us have worked together closely to just curb iran's influence in the region but the more they have been trying the less they have been successful because anti american sentiment. have been on the rise not only in iran but also in some other countries in the region i've had friends from. these countries neig

in iran the government has been . elected by the people by the majority of the people there is democracy there you've. women's rights i'm not saying everything is perfect but we have never had an issue with for example driving little on other things and. let's say what he said would be arabia doing in yemen what did they do and still try to do in syria is there any. action that you can. call. supported by the popular governments in those countries where did all the ousted. president of these countries in the middle east and that up showing up was it not saudi arabia supporting them and. even arming and funding the terrorists in syria and in iraq and then. i think right now almost everyone knows. the us have worked together closely to just curb iran's influence in the region but the more they have been trying the less they have been successful because anti american sentiments. have been on the rise not only in iran but also in some other countries in the region i have had friends from. these countries neighboring count

in iran the government has been. elected by the people by the majority of the people there is democracy there you've. women's rights i'm not saying everything is perfect but we have never had an issue with for example driving little on other things and. let's say what he said would be arabia doing in yemen what did they do and still try to do in syria is there any. action that you can. call. supported by the popular governments in those countries where did all the ousted. president of these countries in the middle east and that up showing up was it not saudi arabia supporting them and. even arming and funding the terrorists in syria and in iraq and then. i think right now almost everyone knows. the us have worked together closely to just curb iran's influence in the region but the more they have been trying the less they have been successful because anti american sentiment. have been on the rise not only in iran but also in some other countries in the region i've had friends from. these countries neighboring countrie

he directs the iran initiative security -- iran security initiative there. he is widely consulted as an analyst and media commentator. he has authored more than 150 articles about the middle east and international economics and is the author and editor of 18 books or studies on iran. he appears frequently on television and radio and has op-eds in newspapers. he has also testified before congressional committees within -- more than 20 times and has served as an expert witness in more than 30 federal cases against iran. prior to joining the washington institute, he was a senior research per vessel at the national defense university, institute for strategic studies. and he also was a senior economist at the international monetary fund and the world bank and a research scholar at the foreign policy research institute. so take it away, patrick. patrick: great. so the sanctions that the u.s. is the imposing are going to -- sing are going to work most effectively if the united states can form a broad domestic consensus, broad international consensus on this matter,

and how iran is likely to react. they believe they can write out sanctions and outweigh the trump administration. has refused to negotiate on the nuclear issue with the trump administration and undoubtedly hopes to have a new administration after 2020 to negotiate with. for that reason, iranian officials will be watching the midterm election as much as americans. we are fortunate to have with us our expert panel to look at the number of issues. this panel will include the ceo of the foundation of defense for democracies. michael durand of the husson institute. and patrick. we will look at the likely impact of sanctions, what additional u.s. policies are needed to deal with a wider range of iran's behavior. and what needs to be done, if improved to get to an nuclear agreement. is that in the cards? i will reduce the speakers in order. our first speaker is patrick clawson. he is the senior fellow and director of research at the washington institute for policy. initiativethe iran there. he is widely consulted as an anal

iran and so how do you get it back on the iran and i suspect that the gateway to doing that is through syria and the so-called iranian forces that are in syria and when i say that just let me be clear i want to of course through iranian advisor but i don't believe there are any formal arabian units as military formations of. evidence of it is gone they've gone they're not there and they've even left before the airport that is israel how much of the russians have to do with that do you think or later and the russians hear this because they then put in there as three hundreds in the next day so there was clearly an attempt by iran to help pressure if you like in its discussions with the united states. and with israel and with his room but i do think that what's going to happen i think that trump will try and is succeeding to keep. in place moment in soma. and one of the reasons probably is because there's actually no more any effective rival or challenger candidate that could take his knees or that he made sure of that so there isn't any varial of it and i think the family is in disarray

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