to speed. where do things stand right now? good morning. the united states is not allowed in the room, wall street journal headline, we ve been assigned to the kiddie table down the hall in vienna. rather embarrassing diplomatically we have to pass notes to europeans to talk to the iranian swizzle reversal of fortune for terror on over the last we 10 months. coming into the year suffering from donald trump s maximum pressure campaign the most historic amount of sanctions ever imposed on a regime, the imf, international monetary fund toll is coming into this year they were down to $4 billion in accessible foreign-exchange reserves and we went for maximum pressure to maximum difference under the biden administration which, a very foolhardy policy of trying to induce the iranian s to come back to the old expiring flawed iran nuclear deal of 2015.