working because sanctions are crippling them. they are the more desperate here and iran s strategy here is really to use the international community, europeans, japan to put pressure on the united states to back off. that is the world s main oil artery in the middle east and as you mentioned in the introduction, their threat to breach the nuclear deal, if they do breach it they will breech it rather slightly because i still think they want to pull the europeans to them. shannon: that is the conundrum for this administration. the trump administration found itself in the awkward position of demanding iran comply with that and the worst deal in history, do we put pressure on european allies to stick the
them. they ve obviously got more desperate here. i think iran s strategy here is really to use the international community, europeans, even japan, to put pressure on the united states to back off. that is what is rupturing the world s main oil artery in the middle east, as you mentioned in the introduction, the threat to breach the nuclear deal. if they do breach, i think they will reach it rather slightly as opposed overwhelmingly because i think they want to bother europeans to them. shannon: that is the conundrum for the administration. the ap is putting it this way, the trump administration found itself in the awkward position monday of demanding that iran comply with a nuclear court that the president has directed the worst deal in history. so do we now, the u.s., put pressure on the european allies to stick to the deal to hold iran to the deal, when we walk away from? i think what the trump administration is saying is that they don t want to iran to be on
the world main oil artery. they want the countries of the world that are dependent on the oil to pressure the united states to back off the iranian sanctions. they are threatening this week. they had done it once before, to increase uranium enrichment. they want that to create some pressure on the united states. bill: jennifer griffin picked up the coverage they are live from the pentagon. jennifer, good morning. good morning, bill. there was the tweet this morning from the iranian official, saying that they had arrested a cyber sell of cia agents, and unconfirmed claim at this point. on the press conference. held at their heavy water reactor where they announced they would soon be enriching uranium to levels closer to that needed from military gradients, adding that they will no longer abide by commitments under the nuclear deal. when we say we will not be
disrupting a major oil artery in the world here much as they did once before in the late 1980s. it did not end well for them under the reagan administration because the actions they took. i think that is step one. step two, neil, is u.s. begins to escort ships with coalition partners through the persian gulf. the iranians will likely escalate. they ll put mines out there as they did in the 1980s. what reagan did under those circumstances is this. in 1987, we took a kuwaity taker and sailed it under a u.s. flag. in 1988, u.s. escorts are bringing ships through the persian gulf, a u.s. frigate is
that s up 23 cents from this time last week. that resulted from refineries along the coast and shutdown. the colonial pipeline, a major oil artery for the south was forced to close sections and won t reopen until they re inspected and deemed safe. that led to panic and drivers racing to the pumps were stations ran out of gas. not because there is a shortage but because so many people came in a short amount of time. some drivers are not happy. it s really irritating. have be different if this were situation where there was a sordid shortage. i lifted the shortages in the 70s which were real. see in this which is by people that just panic. there are documented prices of price gouging. according to the attorney general people have been