been ripped up by donald trump, what do you think that move has done to bring us here? oh, when donald trump withdrew from the joint comprehensive plan of action known as the iran nuclear deal, he isolated us more than he isolated iran because for over a year, even with the u.s. withdrawal, iran has stayed in compliance with the deal. working with our european allies of the united kingdom, france, germany, with the european union and with russia and china. and, in fact, all of the parties, not including iran and not including us, will be meeting at the end of this week to see if there is any way they can hold this deal together. in fact, i think the russians are sort of licking their chops that they get to try to lead a way forward on this deal. and everybody s playing into russian and chinese hands in that regard. the president s going to go to the g20 at the end of the week to try to get everybody on his side. but they don t want to be on his
now an msnbc global affairs analyst. i guess first on the announcement of the sanctions, which seems sort of like a diss track more than anything, is there much of a bite here? not much, chris. i think your summary was pretty good. most of the folks who were targeted, quite frankly, were targeted under the anti-terrorism executive order. the supreme leader was under the new executive order, and, quite frankly, none of them have much to do with international financial institutions because international financial institutions don t want to have anything to do with them. they have their own ways and manners to continue to make themselves quite well off. as someone who worked in on the negotiations that led to the joint agreement that has now been ripped up by donald trump, what do you think that move has done to bring us here? oh, when donald trump withdrew from the joint comprehensive plan of action
known as the iran nuclear deal, he isolated us more than he isolated iran because for over a year, even with the u.s. withdrawal, iran has stayed in compliance with the deal. working with our european allies of the united kingdom, france, germany, with the european union and with russia and china. and, in fact, all of the parties, not including iran and not including us, will be meeting at the end of this week to see if there is any way they can hold this deal together. in fact, i think the russians are sort of licking their chops that they get to try to lead a way forward on this deal. and everybody s playing into russian and chinese hands in that regard. the president s going to go to the g20 at the end of the week to try to get everybody on his side. but they don t want to be on his side. they want to be on the side of the joint comprehensive plan of action. one last point, chris. to your last story, when the united states warehouses children, we don t exactly go to the g20 with a k
will and what the iranian said very clearly is that all of this rests on the supreme leader of iran. for all of the talk about moderates or some sort of import democracy. it all rests on the one man who is deeply ideological and anti- american and has said he does not wish to engage with the united states after the unraveling of the joint comprehensive plan of action. so far he doesn t seem to have any intention of doing that. thank you for being with us. when we come back amid rising global tensions president trump makes his reelection bid. will it be enough to win him a second term.
now very clearly is that all of this rests on the supreme leader of iran. for all the talk about moderates or about some sort of imperfect democracy inside iran, we know that s all not true. it all rests on this one man who is deeply idealogical and deeply anti-american and has said he doesn t wish to engage with the united states after the unraveling of the joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran deal of 2015. paul: if he doesn t do it, they don t move. so far, he doesn t seem to have any intention of doing that. jonathan, thank you for being with us. pleasure. paul: when we come back, amid rising global tensions, president trump makes his re-election pitch. will the themes he laid out in this week s campaign kickoff be enough to win him a second term? our panel weighs in, next. our magnificent first lady, melania, thank you.