enforce the american sanctions regime that is but it been put in place all differences aside pompei o did reaffirm that germany nevertheless remains an important ally of the us do you ever use chief political correspondent melinda crane is following this story for us high melinda on the surface here it looks like 2 allies meeting but if you look not very far below the surface you see a whole host of disagreement some turmoil tell us more about how you perceive this meeting. well in fact we heard a lot of professions of friendship and partnership statements about how very very important transatlantic ties are but as you said once you dig deeper the devil is in the details and particularly on the question of iran it is quite evident that they may agree on the broad goal of trying to keep iran from getting nuclear weapons and trying to limit iran's support for terrorism and also its ballistic