Hi podcast listeners tonight I talk to the unlikely duo the rare bipartisan

senators Mitt Romney and Chris Murphy who have just come back from a trip to the

Middle East. What did they think the escalating tensions between the US and Iran will lead to?

Then Bill Weld is the only Republican candidate challenging President Trump in the 2020 election.

What made the former governor of Massachusetts

decide to run? And Harry has a fascinating conversation about the future of

crypto currencies, Bitcoin and such with the director of digital currencies at the MIT Media Lab.

Enjoy the show. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane Amanpur in London.

Iran has ended some aspects of cooperation under the landmark 2015 nuclear deal.

Exactly one year after President Trump quit the agreement and

launched a campaign of maximum pressure against Iran. Here's a sobering response

from Democratic Senator Chris Murphy. Hey everybody he tweeted we are at war in three different countries

Iraq Afghanistan and Syria and inching toward conflict in two more Venezuela and Iran and we haven't even had a

Secretary of Defense for five months. Iran has blamed the US for its action saying

hardliners in Washington and economic sanctions have made it impossible to continue.

Tehran says it will now keep enriched uranium stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad

and is threatening to increase its

enrichment levels within 60 days. However, Iran's Foreign Minister Jawazaref

maintains the country is not walking away from the deal.

The decision the Islamic Republic of Iran has taken at the moment

is actually to continue with our commitments to the nuclear agreement

and not go against it, unlike the USA

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