Stuck with it, it was hurting the iranian economy but not enough to move them and so they were waiting trump out. everybody in the administration knew that. so as a consequence the u.s. had to continue to escalate to either get, you know, all of the other countries to back away from iran and show that they are not going to help, but also to get the iranians to move away from the deal. is it the u.s. that escalated not iran that escalate snd. we ve escalated all the way through. we had a limited nuclear deal under obama, we pulled out, that s an escalation. okay. nobody moved and then we continued to push. i mean in the past ten days. some of the intelligence or at least what we ve been told is that it was iran that was escalating. they were moving missiles on to a boat. look, i mean, there is he a always going to be a misjudgment when you talk about the u.s. and iran for us the most important date in history is 1979 when you had the revolution, they occupy our embassy. for