Threaten to expand its Uranium Enrichment Program the u. S. Pulled out of the nuclear deal and reinstated sanctions against iran sparking tension in the gulf and Washington Post further sanctions after Iranian Forces shot down one of its drones they are using the economy quote were imposing sanctions as a kind of weapons now if youre facing a very new concept there pen ization of dollars this is what youre facing the use dollars of a pen to impose this they are vicious their policies on other countries and that should be a stopped so our correspondent joins us now from tehran and saying really iran very firm in its position and fundamentally doesnt want to see its oil exports blocked while accusing the United States of economic terrorism but it is edging ever closer to ripping up that 2050 nuclear agreement. Thats exactly right this meeting in vienna comes at a very significant time the joint comprehensive plan of action as its known the way or the 2050 nuclear deal is particularly fragile at this moment because iran says it has run out of patience now the remaining signatories to the deal have been encouraging iran to stick to it but this meeting comes at a time when the United States and its allies in the region came have been coming to the brink of war with iran repeatedly through an escalation of tensions that weve seen in the previous weeks and months and iran will say to the World Leaders in this meeting that the main issue if they want stability is the is is to help iran focus on mitigating all of the u. S. Economic sanctions that have put in place against it after the u. S. Pullout from the nuclear deal a unilateral pullout it placed heavy economic sanctions on iran that iran has continuously called economic terrorism so while e. U. Leaders are approach represented at this meeting while russia and china will be in attendance there are many signatories to the nuclear deal will be encouraging iran to stay in the deal iran has been criticized for its Ballistic Missiles program has been criticized for participating in conflicts in the region all reasons that the United States says were key to its decision of pulling out of the Nuclear Deal Iran will say the deal was never about those things the deal was about iran curbing its Nuclear Program for the sake of economic benefit without that economic benefit iran will say it cant be the only one continuing to maintain the integrity of what was meant to be an International Agreement over the moments i believe in the thanks so much. Still ahead here on aljazeera and get iraq as hundreds marched on the Bahraini Embassy over the u. S. Sponsored conference on the middle east and hundreds of people have been arrested in the wake of a failed rebellion in ethiopia those stories on the other side of the pike