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Not that i am literally inspired or were talking to something instead of feeling the waters they were doing it. Alone they said we had to go we had to go now like right now. Ok so we packed up the camp and headed off a spider and literally really can only get as far from the place as possible and we drove and we drove and we drove and looking out into the west where the water hole was located were all these storm clouds and lightning right. And then i realized that or not is the rain making plays dead was what already asked otto were doing today. They brought the rain. Ritually made rain to her driest parts of australia and they were known widely as the as the rain makers. But i want to 1st find out there with my grandfather literally. I saw something that changed my life without any young person on the trip. And theyll be able to trust that me all believe in me to carry on this responsibility. I mean if they think its a big thing big job. But to get a good day fitting for more people at the trough for more people. That make you feel good inside. The from. That confessional causing. Daniel to get a dagger and become led to from the trip. He started to ride in a bottle with. For me the trip that were not made me want to find out more. I wanted to read about our history. When watchful eyes came into our country in a teenager they want to water. They drove us off our land and turned a country into huge cattle station. And then added counting camel he wanted us 101. 00 or they cattle. A bit at 2000 kilometer trek through our tribal lands. They call it the coming stock route and it destroyed the traditional way of life. Itself just 3 solar cells but. Given your. Theory you would want to. Be used as a good water holes to make 51 wells for de kalb. On a problem that can infer that he didnt never have any clue where the water was so he kept it out as a people. Come up it themselves meant stop them a water. And he let them go if one of the trucks as they ran to get water. They imprison no one inside metal and wood folks. Their wells were closed to several more People Ground trying to get down could they want to. Buy most of my people had to move away on their traditional way of life back. Among them well my grandparents spot i was a young man when he left the desert to find only his promise wife. She was working as a housemaid i got a station up my white grandfather. Now better off that he didnt like desert people because you just various cattle. When he seems potter or better over it take him off if i was going to him just to frighten him so as bada ran down to aruba and he climbed up a bail bond creek. Bed rover he went dead document just under a tree. Or spot he was on top when he seen that fire coming over he jumped down and he landed next bottom and more falls thats why his name is padda. Spot and danny ended up working on Christmas Gray color station. You know parents should let. Their older stop and let you know dont believe it was there you know far more than answers and theyre made the station folks to what they. Will finally became citizens and got a kharaj after the 967. 00 referendum. But even the station owners refused to pay more people equal wages. After decades of working there they were loaded on to trucks and dumped on the banks. That was to build place a bus ride crossing. Fish fry went from a population of 60 people to a refugee camp up to a 1000. They had nothing to do no work no nothing. While. System. Wide. Blue. Was dry. Dry smog and ali kept their country alive by lighting the painting. It comes naturally because of ceremonies and painting up on bodies and sand drawings. It was the beginning of good interest never you know not the. Then saw more. Straw and they became Famous Artists and the paintings so around the world used to be into a new york london you name it theyve been everywhere. This is one of spotless paintings he only paints gordo. I want to hold a left in the desert. Back. Dolly and a mama bone paper from the ground sandy desert came up with a b. Plan to get their country back. They were going to paint their country for evidence. They travelled opinion in an edge of the Great Sandy Desert with more than 50 people from 4 different language groups. I knew and you know that i love god. The 1st man that was planted on the lawn or a canvas represents the canning stock route. It was to have to come here what for us. It was important for the own people to paint their country because think on. Their last big english and they cant read or write. The canvas is like a map a birds eye view of their country that shows the stories and where people used to walk. And its a pretty damn good map. It took nearly a week to finish the painting. And then came the time to use it as evidence came. Along. Told fred chaney from the native title tribe you know all about. What our. Country. Kind of i want to look at it. I mean that this was all just so you know i mean. And i dont theyre not were not. Were friends. You you know not me and then you know. This is where your parents. And i get that. This is. Right. In order. Its going people go to canvass to canberra one of the politicians and the country belongs to us. And. Were not going to be with. My sister nearly she was a spokesperson this is our country it represents songs and culture and not only that but as you can see with the you know the vastness of this map its a link up between all the different tribes in Great Sandy Desert trying to explain Aboriginal Society you know aboriginal. Not a region people this is a task in itself. Its a rain dance so we hope you dont get rain yeah this ever. And i did i didnt have any i i the people are not good. Interested. So the National Gallery borrowed the candlish for an exhibition. It was like the country was strangers. Family to look after it. The more i canvassed and spent the last 2 years at the. National gallery and Something Like a 1000000 people stored. By door people who wanted it back and sent me to canberra to pick it up. And. Thats my little cousin brother buster was spotted out. Last past this is his 1st glimpse of the jeweler. Down here that. Was out here working on that. When they stand on it its just like standing on your homeland its like going home. Most of them will never see in the country. They too well. It makes them sad and they cry. They cry for the exits. And whole. Try to. Get government money and they dont know how that they are going to. An. Al jazeera expose his controversial allegations about the behind the governments. Pardon they told me youre a member of al qaeda you can stop there because of the shia. And its coalition with al qaida to conspire against this us in a key opposition figure 20 left. Playing with fire on al jazeera. In a world where journalism as an industry is changing we have aljazeera are fortunate to be able to continue to expand to continue to have that passenger drive and present the stories in a way that is important to our viewers. Everyone has a story worth hearing to. Uncover those that are often ignored we dont weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent thats why i joined aljazeera. Bigger and potentially more dangerous thats the best way to describe whats happening with a smoking alternative known as favorite i enjoy the taste of it and not get the harmful effects of what smoking does between 20132014 alone we saw a tripling in use among Us High School students and head to head comparison ysaye versus conventional cigarette which one do you think its healthy for my opinion i think theyre both dangerous take on aljazeera. However im in london and we begin this program with some breaking news out of the United States the u. S. Treasury department has imposed sanctions on irans foreign minister Mohammed Javid zarif earlier serif have been warning that iran will further scale back its commitments to the 2050 nuclear deal unless europe does more to protect the green meant serif wants the remaining signatories to shield iran from u. S. Sanctions and allow it to sell oil to iran of course has already begun rolling back some commitments by breaking the limits on enrich uranium agreed in the 2015 accord so to relates its right that breaking news that we just received in the last few minutes also the u. S. Has now announced that it is imposing sanctions on irans foreign minister. Zarif thats according to the u. S. Treasury Departments Office of foreign assets control its reporting that on its website we do know that our correspondent rolls jordan has been in a press briefing about what those sanctions might be interesting this because it comes what about a week since the wreath was in new york at the u. N. Security Council Meeting and he complained about the type travel restrictions that had been placed upon him and on a rainy and diplomats and their families living in washington claiming the curbs amounted to mistreatment. Washington indeed at that time had indeed threatened to prevent saree from entering the u. S. All together but finally lot of visits that restricted zarif movements largely to the u. N. Headquarters the Iranian Embassy and the residence of the u. N. Im being told now that our correspondent roslyn jordan has come out of that briefing and you can tell us a little bit more about the sanctions that the u. S. Has imposed on zarif what what would you know. Well felicity what we can tell our viewers is that this is a deliberation that was authorized by an executive order signed by the u. S. President earlier this summer here in the United States in late june to be more precise and that this came out of the the decision to go ahead and sanction the Supreme Leader ayatollah holiday during that time that executive order according to u. S. Officials allows the u. S. Government to sanction other persons who are also acting in the manner of the telecom in a way to stabilize peace and security not just in the middle east but across the world the argument that these officials were making in this Conference Call that just wrapped up is that mohammed job and reef is the banal face they say of a corrupt and illegal government down paraphrasing here these Officials Say that even though he has i try to present himself as a moderate as a modernizer as someone who seems to be willing to engage with the west is actually a very firm supporter and operative as it were of the Supreme Leaders operations around the world he supports efforts to deny civil rights to gay and lesbians inside iran for example they talked about his support for the detention of dual nationals including the u. S. Journalist Jason Rezaian who was famously detained there for some time because of allegations that he and his wife were spying on behalf of the United States and they say that mr assad if has not shown any for considering to actually be engaged as a person who could actually negotiate with the United States about the u. S. Is concerned about new Irans Nuclear ambitions and for. Act one official made a point of saying he stopped being our official go to person or point person when the u. S. Withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Agreement just about 13 months ago so they are saying that they are very much trying to send a message to the regime that speak that people who are not dealing in good faith and who in fact subvert what the u. S. Considers to be universal values will be held accountable under this president ial executive order now it does mean felicity that he would be allowed to continue to carry out his work as a diplomat if hes doing official business as part of being at the United Nations but the officials also said that every time job and zarif wants to come to the u. S. That there would be a very careful review of his travel to and from the United States in order to make certain that he is not getting any benefit that otherwise would no longer pertain to him of course the usual economic sanctions also apply meaning that if he has any property any assets any Bank Accounts all of those have now been seized and he would not be able to access them the briefing took about 20 minutes and the u. S. Officials basically wanted to send the message that even though there seems to have been a delay in issuing these sanctions on mohamed tods or if the Iranian Foreign minister that this was a decision that the administration was determined to make and that they wanted to make certain they were doing so after considerable but more unspecified discussions within the u. S. Government important to state roles for all of us how significant this decision is by the u. S. Because madonna job at cirith is the man that the west really recognizes in the west does business with when it comes to iran hes a very very. Well known diplomatic across the world he travels across the world on behalf of iran to actually to impose these sanctions on him and he was already subject to some restrictions within new york to impose these sanctions upon him sends a very significant message. It does send a significant message certainly those who might have been inclined to meet with him might haue of a 2nd thoughts about meeting with him even if he is trying to carry out his official duties those on the other side of the table might want to think twice about that i would think that would be a message that the trumpet ministration is trying to send certainly he has been a quite familiar face on many u. S. Television networks they would not address whether or not there were any of those considerations at hand but certainly that could complicate the medias ability to try to interview him about the iranian perspective on any number of issues especially the relationship with the United States and they certainly did say that there would be very scrupulous reviews of how other countries and how businesses and other countries are engaging with iran because of this latest round of sanctions there was a question raised during this Conference Call from someone in india who was said look india depends on getting a good amount of its energy from iran how is this going to affect our relationship with the United States and so the message was sent wanting once again you have to be very very you have to consider whether or not you really want to be doing business with iran the u. S. Has been trying to reassure countries that do energy trade with iran that the u. S. Can fill that gap but the message the under message was very much being sent you should think twice about engaging with iran in any form or fashion so this certainly does raise complications not just for iran not just for countries in asia but for countries in the e. U. As well and this is certainly something that has to be explored going ahead for us in jewels and much more from you i would imagine in the coming hours for the moments in washington thank you lets take you now to terror on and speak tell correspondent that dosage of ari shes joining me on the telephone line from the iranian capital very early days right now but has there been any reaction yet from iran. No i know its quite late in the manson was not here something earlier morning on the words day morning but this is certainly a surprise we had her a initial couple of weeks ago when the Supreme Leader was. Censured by the u. S. Government that there was a busy possibility that the Foreign Ministers would be created that there was decision was put on hold by the u. S. Government and we had thought that the decision was that we considered that now it appears that is not to chase the foreign minister in south was at a Cabinet Meeting earlier on wednesday we talked about how the u. S. Policies affected the Nuclear Agreement now what were hearing is that the one of the things made was that the reason is not considered a decision encouraged significant Decision Maker in the Islamic Republic that is in fact the office that he is considered to be a favorite. Diplomat with the highest authority in iran the Supreme Leader over and over again surprising that i probably have stated how thankful he is been for the efforts of the Foreign Ministry and the foreign minister in the signing of the nuclear cream and the efforts that have been named by that department let sideline the job serif the negotiations that came to the agreement that was signed in 2015 the foreign minister we have to remember and self was hes a career diplomat he was a permanent representative of or on to the United Nations from 2002 until 2007. Gods a lot of experience living in the United States but when there were rumors earlier this month that he could be sanctioned by the u. S. Government he said that it would just be symbolic for him that he does not absolutely have any assets in the United States he does not own any property he doesnt have any Bank Accounts that at any kind of sanctions against him would really work because it would not affect them the only. I think that this will complicate things further is that his travel restriction says and as we heard from all the ones when he was a leader in new york earlier this month he talked about how there was only 3 buildings he was allowed to travel to when he was a new york really not a nation building the rain in residency compounds the another building that belonged to the one as well so he wasnt allowed to go freely even though he had a visa but it was a diplomatic that restricted his travels and there were some. Concerns about that when he was there with his staff but that didnt really occur come to much so when he came back to iran and said that this was not the way to be treated and urge the International Community yet again to stand up against the United States and since the u. S. Withdrew from the Nuclear Agreement last year has imposed a series of sanctions on iran and the former that sort of really been at the forefront vocal about how that is what they are called economic a on iran for now for the foreign minister as they read this will be another example of the American Administration trying to force iran back at it in the questioning table with this latest move its certainly not going to happen in time so you have to also want to be known and you wont have seen it in fact mohamed job at the reef has responded to the sanctions being imposed on him these are soldiers on foot to in english saying to us the reason for designating me is that i am a wrong quote primary spokesperson around the world is the truth really painful it has no effect on me or my family as i have no property or interests outside of iran thank you for considering me such a huge threat to your agenda so mohammed javas the reef saying that the sanctions are being imposed by the us because he is such a huge threat to the us is agenda what do you think he means by that. Well i think he talking about the fact that more than anybody else in iran in the administration and in the system youve been the one that has pushed for this him and former. Junk a they were at the 400. 00 leading the negotiations towards this Nuclear Agreement they spent many many months and years trying to put this deal to gather the foreign minister here as mentioned last month when he was meeting with his german counterpart that the negotiations took a few years but the diplomacy that led to the Nuclear Negotiations took years and we have to remember that when president hu federal money was elected in 2013 the 1st did in the 1st months that he became president was the poor fellow you know of the Nuclear Negotiations loose from the Supreme National Security Council that is. An organization in iran that deals with the nuclear the country People Program he moved that portfolio from that department to the Foreign Ministry this is the 1st time and so his entire agenda on the governments agenda was about the future of Nuclear Program and getting this nuclear deal that was the main purpose from the 1st month he came into office in 2013 so the foreign minister of south was chosen specifically to lead the negotiations and achieve results and they did in 2015 finally and by the next year they were starting to see a century lifted when it became and forced the Nuclear Agreement became. In play basically un sanctions were lifted on iran the sentients were lifted iran ordered over 100. 00. Planes from airbus and boeing. There are contracts being fined and there are so it was a huge win for the government and the report at the forefront of all of this when the United States with her last year this was a huge shock and disappointment and then Everything Else fell apart as a result of it all the contracts went away the United States imposed sanctions on a Banking Sector and also some of the most severe sanctions while their own oil sales and that is something the iranians are adamant that needs to be lifted before that can be any kind of discussion with the American Government so this is what the foreign minister has been talking about constantly over the past kristie months the fact that the United States is trying to bully iran into coming back to the negotiating table this. Maximum Pressure Campaign that the trumpet ministration is on when it comes to iraq is really not the right way to go and the foreign minister saying that the United States government and the pressure that theyre putting in and now on their hands specifically as well is just another example of how theyre trying to achieve that its also interesting timing isnt it dulls because there has been speculation until recently voted on and particularly cerise had been reaching out to other gulf gulf nations not normally allies the tools such as the United Arab Emirates and is that something do you think that perhaps the trumpet ministration is going to be worried about. Well its certainly an Interesting Development a recent weeks there has been a slight shift in the United Arab Emirates policy when it comes to iran since the value of the u. S. Drone that iran long evolution regards erikas the. Earlier this month the iranians said that this strong took off from a u. S. Air base of god and since that event took place theres been some theres been a few events and number of delegations have come to iran helped some discussions behind the scenes as well as most recently theres been allegations that have come and now that their visits are on there is no ship from the u. United Arab Emirates side towards iran there is now a interest in trying to bridge any kind of misunderstanding that theyve had over the past few years and you dont mean point of contention with the United Arab Emirates has been about saudi arabia thats really the main point. We sent back and forth in terms of diplomatic is that. There has been interest according to the iranians at least that the United Arab Emirates is looking to. B become closer to iran they are rethinking their policy yemen and the iranians are of course open to the idea of a bulk said over and over again and even the foreign minister this wednesday morning said that they are always open to dialogue with their neighbors he even said theyre ready to talk saudi arabia if saudi arabia is ready that iran would never turn away an opportunity for dialogue so the United Arab Emirates has really tried in the recent weeks to get closer to iran and bridge any kind of gap that theyve had over the past few years and the foreign minister of that at the forefront of you said you know with the events that are taking place in terms of security in the strait of hormuz you know in the last week. In 3 weeks there is a desire to form some kind of leukemia in terms of iran and its neighboring countries when it comes to protecting those waters and also when it comes to providing some kind of a united front when it comes to the idea of the United States in that british Led Coalition in the strait of hormuz so the foreign minister again at the forefront of all of this and now this sanctions from the United States government will just seems like another effort to try and push down his voice on the International Scene or ideals upon real life that late into the night in tyrol not thanks for the moment lets take you back to washington and speak to ralston jordan who was a lot press conference phone call a little over about half an hour one hour ago roles what is the Top Administration as a been doing this in sanctioning serif is it simply a matter of piling on the pressure raising the tensions. Well thats basically what u. S. Officials said on the call that this is a continuation of their maximum Pressure Campaign on iran to stop what it calls irans malign behavior weve heard that phrase so many times in recent months from the trumpet ministration and they say that this is certainly part and parcel of that effort the u. S. Considers iran an existential Security Threat not just in the middle east but to u. S. Partners and allies in the region as well as to u. S. Interests around the world it does not trust the government in iran and it fall it says that it would like to see a very different government they say that in the meantime a lesson until the iranian people change their government the u. S. Has an obligation to make it very plain that it will not stand by as iran does things such as funding hezbollah and hamas support to hooty fighters in yemen basically making it possible for rug roups to carry out attacks on civilians around the world the u. S. Also says that it considers iran as israel does an accidental threat to that nation and so it is not going to stand by while iran tries to strengthen its military because of the potential risk that it presents to israel but really what has the trumpet ministration really exercised is what it believes is irans efforts to try to develop a Nuclear Weapons program and so this effort to impose travel bans and financial sanctions on persons connected to the iranian government is part of trying to persuade the iranian government to stop its efforts to develop a Nuclear Weapons program and to engage in face to face talks with the United States on dealing with this matter of course going back to an earlier question that you raised eliciting. About why sanctions a rave isnt this cutting off an avenue of engaging with tara well officials also saying that not only do they know it considers the race a serious interlocutor but they say that they would rather be dealing with people higher up in the iranian government and not dealing with the foreign minister so its a real question of the u. S. Is seriousness about this matter whether the iranians will take the u. S. His view was seriously or whether the simply leads to even more tensions in the gulf ross with aces there in washington thanks a much less speak now to our own ash to is a National Security and Foreign Policy analysts and joins me via skype from new york thanks for being with us on the program your 1st of all your reaction to this breaking news a in the last half hour all say theres a lot of chatter coming from washington d. C. About imposing new sanctions on various officials and Islamic Republic of iran one of whom was the Iranian Foreign minister just our series the sanctions were not for you i was on him he actually got a limited respects sort of restricted Restricted Movement be that accompany us to come to come to new york city to attend the United Nations but eventually the sanctions were imposed and it goes to sort of show at the broader picture of what President Trump and his allies have tried to rob and that is the socalled maximum Pressure Campaign on iraq questionis as maximum pressure going to work and beat with maximum pressure theyre asked to be some carrots at the end pressure for the sake of pressure isnt going to do much what are the chariots or any of the u. S. This race is going to offer and are those terrorists tasty and sort of that some say and not Islamic Republic of iran to eventually at the dimensional swallow the end of this maximum Pressure Campaign. What is interesting is that in that statement in the same for in fact from treasury saturday steve. You said jarrod serif implements the rectors agenda of irans Supreme Leader and is the regimes primary spokesperson around the world interesting that the u. S. Treasury department chose to use the words irans Supreme Leader in the accusation. There has been a trend by a secretary of state by john bolton especially with the state secretary on it we see that more important was 1st to the Islamic Republic of iran as holidays regime or the regime of common a mean a way that theyre trying to this is themselves from sort of any effort to hurt the iranian people but secondly theyre trying to recognize the man of power is not mr rouhani the president is not was a czar of the foreign minister it is the Supreme Leader ayatollah ali hum and he was in charge of the armed forces the judiciary and of course of after Us Intelligence agencies ministries and so on and so forth and not not to say that he is as the sole power broker power maker in the country but by far the most important and all the Armed Forces Special of the russian parts that you dish your source so forth are most loyal to it and then any other entity or person that country so by recognizing that theyre saying hey were trying to make sure that this thing wish we did iranian people and comedys regime secondly theyre trying to send a message that the u. S. Does recognize the fact the rouhani is already at the very best cannot even negotiate for themselves a lot and higher Islamic Republican entity so it is comedy and he is sort of executives and his generals and his men henchmen want to keep Decision Makers in that country so yes whether we like trump or not whether we like this sort of. Back broken or so you know sort of half baked strategy of that about iran it is true that mrs item is a ronnie lack real tangible power either in terms of this issue are making or negotiating inside and outside iran and it is the nonelect that portions of the Islamic Republic that really yields much of the power in that country how do you think this is all going to affect the resurgent Nuclear Tension over Irans Nuclear program i mean the cigna trains the remaining signatories to that 2015 deal does it apply much more press and then basically tries to keep. It certainly does ever since President Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the iran the j c p o a joint conference a plan of action it really sends a bad signal to our alums you know specially our european allies that british the french and the germans and it really gave ammunition to the iranian iranian side to say hey look we abided by every aspect of the deal that was not really popular by common a and these sort of hard liners inside iran yet it was President Trump unilaterally withdrew but we dont accept reality and reality is this at the end of the day europeans are going to stick with the americans for Cultural Values Political Economic you name it says war to you would do you with all our difficulties and differences with our spread across the pond us in the end europe and thats the free europe have had to have been lost in major strategic goals and a major adventures no european entity is going to desponding that their American Allies and go to say well you know what im going to forgo American Banking and american fine as an american so on and so forth and u. S. Market and go and jump into the Iranian Market so thats not going to happen but on the other hand its going to leave a real ad space in the mouths of our allies is not to mention that it makes us look as unstable dealmakers and deal brokers we signed a deal it shouldnt just be repealed for no reason by the next administration so yes that is a problem having said that attention is how have been increasing a much of that tension has been increased not just by the side but also by the iranian side that does seem to see some sort of advantage now and i apologize ive got have to interrupt for the moment because going to take a short break there will of course be much more on this breaking in a couple of minutes time. Hello there expect a bit of a cooling off not particularly cold but sunny the time is it low that we have seen just lately you can see below cloud of analysts streaming in the southwest is the usual areas saying the weather but no real rain in the for cos you may just have a scout a shine to 12 degrees that 900 sydneys a little bit to cool it has been there but also 20 degrees in brisbane so as a few degrees below what weve seen lately 20 degrees in the past its been in the last couple days i will stay that as well and no real change you can see on friday as a 20 again in brisbane and 17 degrees celsius in sydney then we head across to wills new zealand not a bad day on thursday quite a bit of. Again bringing just a scattering of showers but both. Should stay dry on thursday what you will have is that a cold particularly in the overnight hours and with the moisture thats around that will certainly produce some snow to the alps as we head through friday and again you could see want to 2 showers there but not a bad day in oakland with a high of 14 celsius and weve also continued that sort of dry spell across much of japan that is want to. Get the chance of maybe into tokyo the Korean Peninsula to go through a little rain pushing in to head through friday but warm in seoul at 33 in the same in tokyo. This is aljazeera. The be cool. There everyone i fancy bar and welcome to this news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes the u. S. Treasury department imposes sanctions on irans foreign minister of 100 jobs or. 15 people all from the same family of quarantined in the d. L. C. Over concerns theyve been infected with the abode of virus. Protest leaders called for a 1000000 man march in sudan to demand justice for the deaths of 6 demonstrate his. 6 years after it was unveiled we investigate the 15000000000. 00 nicholai korean canal project that never came to be. And in sport the 1st ashes test between england and australia gets underway on thursday at the game the focus has been on the players behave here well hear from both captains later on in the program. We begin this hour with breaking news out of the United States the u. S. Treasury department has imposed sanctions on irans foreign minister mohammad java serif that includes freezing his assets in the u. S. As well as travel restrictions u. S. Officials have also said they do not consider as a reef quite a significant Decision Maker in any future talks on the Iran Nuclear Deal that straightaway go to our correspondent in washington d. C. Rosalynn jordan ross you are attending a telephone briefing a little earlier from the Treasury Department tell us more about why these sanctions are being imposed. Well in short felicity this is a continuation of the trumpet ministrations maximum Pressure Campaign thats what the trumpet ministration calls its efforts to diplomatically isolate and to put economic pressure on the government in town hall because the u. S. Is very much opposed to what it calls irans malign agenda and malign behavior they are opposed to irans efforts to try to develop a Nuclear Weapons program they are opposed to irans support for groups such as hezbollah hamas who the fighters in yemen they are very much opposed to irans efforts to try to control the waterways of the gulf and other water raise around the middle east for its own purposes and they say that the iranian government presents an existential threat not just to countries in the middle east but to u. S. Interests not just there but around the world as well they say and im now reading from a statement that was released a short time ago in the name of the secretary of state mike pompei oh this rationale for sanctioning the Iranian Foreign minister and im quoting here a wrong Foreign Ministry is not merely the diplomatic arm of the Islamic Republic but also a means of advancing many of the Supreme Leaders destabilizing policies foreign minister zarif and the Foreign Ministry he runs take their direction from the Supreme Leader and his Office Foreign minister zarif is a key enabler of Ayatollah Khamenei its policies throughout the region and around the world the designation of jobs are if today reflects this reality the secretary of state then goes on to say in this statement that the u. S. Is going to continue this maximum Pressure Campaign until the iranian government changes its behavior stops being a Security Threat to what the u. S. Argues are many countries around the world not just to its neighbors in the middle east. And ross im seeing the same statement as you are from the secretary of state he goes on to say foreign minister zarif is a cd a regime a regime official and apologist but the foreign minister of course is the man that the worlds has got used to dealing with when were talking about discussions with iran what does this mean then for the u. S. Going forward who will the u. S. Talks who will they continue to talk to her if it doesnt appear to be so. Well what the officials on this Conference Calls hold reporters is that because the u. S. Pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal a year ago june that they have not been engaging with the job and zarif in that capacity is an interlocutor anyway and they say given behavior given his support for a crackdown on gays and lesbians inside iran for his support of the imprisonment of dual nationals including the us reporter Jason Rezaian and a British National who has been separated from her family nazneen rockliffe for i believe more than 2 years now the because. In tacit support of efforts to crack down on political opponents the u. S. Says that he would not be a suitable person to talk about coming up with new terms for a nuclear deal anyway they say theyre much more interested in dealing with higher ups in the in the Government People with Actual Authority and actual up power to try to change the course of the iranian government and to change the course of iranian policies so they were rather dismissive of what his view would be in this sort of negotiation they also was said that when it comes to his actual job as foreign minister and the fact that he does occasionally travel to the United Nations to meet with diplomats there to be involved in negotiations and meetings of that sort that the u. S. Would then be reviewing his application for a visa to come onto u. S. Soil in order to get to u. N. Headquarters on a case by case basis that does not mean that every time he wanted to go to u. N. Headquarters that he would be allowed to do so but there is this suggestion that they would very very carefully and perhaps very narrowly determine. What circumstances job and zarif could actually come to the u. S. In the execution of his duties as foreign minister. Roslyn jordan with the latest there in washington thank you all the roof himself has responded to the sanctions on twitter saying the u. S. Is reason for designating me is that i am irans quote primary Spokes Person around the world is the truth really that painful it has no effects on me or my family as i have no property or interests outside of iran thank you for considering me such a huge threats to your agenda lets take you now to tehran and speak to our correspondent there dorsetshire bar as she joins us live over the telephone also weve heard the instant reaction there of the foreign minister to iran of course its late into the night there but what sort of response do you think were going to get from iran when iran wakes up. Well this certainly will be just another example the iranians will point to the fact that the United States doesnt really understand how the Islamic Republic system works the idea that they think by sanctioning the foreign minister they will get to a more powerful person in the system to talk to its. Really absurd because the foreign minister is somebody who is a very very close to the highest authority in around the Supreme Leader the supreme there self quite a lot of common in the past has expressed his satisfaction with how the foreign minister has conducted these negotiations over the Nuclear Agreement hes thanked the Foreign Ministry for all their efforts the idea that by bypassing the race they will get to somebody powerful in the system that will they will be able to talk to is unheard of really it will never happen the iranians chose the foreign minister as the person to lead the negotiations to bleed the dialogue in the International Community about it or not or to put it. Back their Nuclear Program in order to open up the countrys economy to the world and that is what was passed to the foreign minister the iranian president Hassan Rouhani was elected in 2013 on a Campaign Promise that he will get the countrys economy back up and running after years of cooking sanctions not just by the United States you remember during an advantage on iran was under e. U. As well as the United Nations sanctions so when the president rouhani was elected he took the Nuclear Negotiations from the countrys Supreme National Security Council which is the body that is in charge of the countrys Nuclear Program headed by the president he took that awful you know from that governing body and gave it to the Foreign Ministry something thats not. And history of the country and he put the homage of odds or if in charge of the negotiations specifically for the reason that the reason is a career diplomat he was the iranian permanent member to the United Nations from 2000 to 2007 he has dealt with Many American diplomats over the years and he has a long history with the former. American official john kerry so there was a history there and as they reached took their responsibility very seriously in the negotiations up to the 2015 nuclear deal and as a recent self a very optimistic as was a new president Hassan Rouhani so the idea now is that since the United States withdrew it isnt there weve whos been speaking out against whats been happening in iran and the United States imposing sanctions on irans banking and or oil sector and calling calling vat a form of economic terrorism so he has been adamant that this needs to stop before iran will ever talk to you American Administration on any level so now with this tension its really an absurd reaction from the americans according to the iranians and once a week up they will say this is another example of how the American Administration is not really a well versed the specific administration the trump of ministration is not very well versed on how the Islamic Republic works if they think that by sanctioning Mohammad Javad zarif they will get to somebody more powerful thats really not ever going to happen the foreign minister as i said is somebody that has direct dealings with the Supreme Leader even when. The signing of the Nuclear Agreement the meetings that were taking place in switzerland during the last ones came back to teheran for one day before he went back to agree on the number of itoh issues are in the Nuclear Agreement and never reports that he met with. Very senior senior official so any kind of step that was taken that led to the signing that came. There was approval from the highest level here inside iran before zarif acted on it and they think that this person is not powerful enough to have any kind of discussion with really just the opposite he is the probably most powerful person outside of iran to delist when it comes to sensitive issues because you have direct access to those who make those kinds of decisions in toronto. When i share in issues a National Security and Foreign Policy analyst and joins me via skype from new york thanks for being with us on the program so the sanctioning all of zarif lets all hope what does this mean do you think for the future of the Iran Nuclear Deal and also for issues such as