iran i think that no one wants to have a war in the region i think you know there have been a lot of wars in the past decade in this region that have been calamitous so so this is why a lot of regimes in that region including the iranian one but also the saudi one another has always played the fear card when it comes for example to protest so they always point to other you know war ravaged countries but i think the threat of war as you know is very much on people s minds or the concern of war but then again i think you know neither the iranian nor the american side can really you know can really bear the costs of any large military confrontation so i think this is the hope or this is the avenue for maybe a diplomatic solution ok we will we ll get to that eventually but in terms of iran and the people who are supporting the regime of the mallos this threat of war that you mentioned the no one wants to see happen as it supported as a. led to a
sort but they re also skeptical of saudi arabia so in a poll recently about 2 thirds of americans said saudi arabia is not really an ally it s not really trust you know an ally did they can trust him in and that raises a lot of questions of course a lot of democrats are skeptical of iran as well but they say that trump s moves by withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal have actually made matters worse today blame him for for that escalation we ve seen ok now. the u.s. is building a coalition in the gulf right now it has 20 warships 20000. soldiers and sailors in the region 103 strike aircraft and it s been asking germany to participate in the military coalition to protect the oil that also fuels the german industry do you see germany at some point contributing
like kind of leverage that we have political and economic these of those countries that we just use them more often and we you know you we you know pops my just some kind of conditionalities when it comes to deepening cooperation with those countries that is a possibility that conditionalities right now are something donald trump definitely looking at in reference to to iran his question right now is he needs to contain iran and at the same time prevent a regional conflict from happening that would threaten him in the 2020 alexion says is that a major concern right now washington well certainly the concern is. you know on one side of the political divide you have the hawks who think that he s essentially caused all this by being too cautious on the other side you have some of his own supporters but also a lot of democrats who say he needs to be very cautious and continue essentially
or president reaches certain saudi arabia is that an issue for the people of iran i think that no one wants to have a war in the region i think you know there have been a lot of wars in the past decade in this region that have been calamitous so so this is why a lot of regimes in that region including the iranian one but also the saudi one another has always played the fear card when it comes for example to protest so they always point to other you know war ravaged countries but i think the threat of war as you know is very much on people s minds or the concern of war but then again i think you know neither the iranian nor the american side can really you know can really bear the costs of any large military confrontation so i think this is the hope or this is the avenue for maybe a diplomatic solution ok we will we ll get to that eventually but in terms of iran and the people are supporting the regime of the mullahs this threat of war that you mention that no one wants to see happen as
a whole discussion about economic sanctions and their impact on the civilian populations and their role of course human rights issues that are of concern. it s the imposing country house to you know be big to take care off but also when it comes to economic sanctions there are also local autocrats who do benefit from any kind of imposition of sanctions so it s not that easy ok where does the american public really stand on this if they back the president s position. on on iran not going forcefully as john bolton is no longer with the administration would have liked and counting on the sanctions regime and possibly some back tell discussions we re certainly no appetite in the united states for any military escalation of the in fact the president himself a promise to withdraw troops from afghanistan he hasn t done so yet he s under pressure to do so so the public certainly is very wary of any escalation of that