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The chances do you think of a breakthrough. Well it depends what you mean by a breakthrough its quite possible although were not expecting a press conference that there will be some sort of agreement in the next few hours on what we believe president mccraw is going to suggest some months allowing certain countries for a limited time to purchase Iranian Crude Oil because at the moment those purchases are under those u. S. Sanctions so they want theyre suggesting that there are waivers brought in at least for a just for a limited time so that discussions with the iranian government can begin in earnest of course theyre well aware also of the tensions in the gulf with the seizure of those tankers they want something the french government wants something that they can bring to the table at the g. 7 meeting this week a. Its micro himself admits that there are divisions within the g 7 over iran but whats not clear right now is wheth ....
As a sweetener to iran and he was hoping that that would actually come out of these talks in paris is something he could take forward to the International Community were not hearing any detail and we havent heard from the french themselves so its not quite clear how much progress they have made is the main takeaway. With these sorts of talks when we especially when we have not much concrete that simply the lines of communication are still open and im imagining that might be important so given that the g. 7 is literally around the corner. Definitely right i mean its not just president micron who believes that its essential to preserve the deal its the other european signatories and china and russia as well who are behind it. The question is how do you go about saving it given the tough line being taken in washington now president micro and his Foreign Ministry have ....
Without official sanction however there have also been rockets fired from gaza towards and into israeli territory in the last few days israeli army is blaming that on on Islamic Jihad another of the armed groups here inside gaza saying that hamas has a responsibility to try to control the behavior of Islamic Jihad but certainly with the israeli elections also underway and it in previous occasions we have seen hamas try to increase the pressure on the government of Benjamin Netanyahu in the run up to elections and other important political events there is a concern that potentially that might happen however we have seen this money come in from qatar the qatari envoy hamas is demanding that israel go through with other commitments that it understands israel made after the last round of escalation so a lot depends on how ....
The g. 7 this weekend how do you think the u. S. Is going to react. Not particularly well to be honest i think the u. S. Position is incredibly clear its been explicit we know that donald trump has called this nuclear deal the worst deal of all time for for whatever reason be it self interest or or be at the thought that it didnt do enough to stop the Iranian Nuclear program or didnt do enough for u. S. Interests we know that thats the u. S. Position and i think it would be highly unlikely for trump and john bolton and others involved at the highest levels of the administration to actually soften their stance and so that means that the european powers to figure out a way of saving the deal without the u. S. Being involved and figure out a way of allowing the iranian economy to prosper in the face of these crippling u. S. Sanctions and thats where i think the United Kingdom h ....