business with iran and try to make this deal stick or it can decide that its business with the united states is too important and let that kind of financial ties between iran and europe fade if europe does so i think iran has within its power the interest to develop closer relations with russia with china to. look elsewhere outside of this western multilateral framework for economic and financial relief could russia and china really pick up the slack to the degree that tehran is clearly hoping no i mean if we look at the economic bite of these sanctions just over the last year international estimates said that the iranian economy was already going to shrink by 6 percent over this year and i really do think that there is this deepening economic bite within iran in which it needs europe to comply the terms of the deal in order to get out of this economic catastrophe rick know what the europeans took a pretty extraordinary step this winter they created
business with iran and try to make this deal stick or it can decide that its business with the united states is too important and let that kind of financial ties between iran and europe fade if europe does so i think iran has within its power the interest to develop closer relations with russia with china to. look elsewhere outside of this western multilateral framework for economic and financial relief could russia and china really pick up the slack to the degree that tehran is clearly hoping no i mean if we look at the economic bite of these sanctions just over the last year international estimates said that the iranian economy was already going to shrink by 6 percent over this year and i really do think that there is this deepening economic bite within iran in which it needs europe to comply by the terms of the deal in order to get out of this economic catastrophe rick know if the europeans took a pretty extraordinary step this winter they created
about it. shepard: those partners including united kingdom and germany who were just and france who were just here. they seem intent okay, we can work on other things. we have to make this deal stick. that s right. the basic bargain in the trump administration has been driving at, we ll stick with the deal, we ll stay in the jcpoa if you guys work with us to number 1 correct its flaws and that s flaws like some of those we re talking about today and address iran s activities more broadly in the middle east. that s a pretty good bargain if we can get it. if we can t get it, it raises other questions. withdrawing and throwing all that work out doesn t seem very wise. the demonstration that prime minister netanyahu reminded me from the u.n. a couple years ago. if true, if whoever was got the
sanctions that obama has put in place but also in gunning for even more sanctions to be implemented in the future. and, of course, it is not just republicans who believe that. adam shif, one of the most influential members of the house of representatives and democrat on works on oversight issues believes the u.s. should ramp up sanctions against russia in the next congress. we appreciate both of your insights. thank you. thank you. the syrian ceasefire enters its first full day, but even the key players admit it is fragile. coming up here, what has to happen to make this deal stick.