sanctions promised to make things even tougher. relations between the u.s. and iran have gotten worse three months ago president donald trump unilaterally pulled out of the iran nuclear deal and said he'd impose the toughest sanctions iran has ever faced a declaration of economic war against the islamic republic. since then iran's economy has plunged into chaos the collapse of the country's currency the reaal has accelerated it has now lost seventy percent of its value against the euro the government has banned many currency transactions since april the falling reale didn't just hurt currency holders food prices have risen by at least forty percent . and last week president trump further stirred the pot with a surprising proposal thank you very much thank you i would certainly made with iran if they wanted to meet i don't know that they're ready to have a hard time right now. but i ended the iran deal it was a ridiculous deal the response from iran's leaders was tepid but several