Now on Bbc News political thinking with nick robinson. Hello, And welcome to political thinking a conversation with, rather than a newsy interrogation, of someone who shapes our political thinking about what a shape theirs. My guest this week has just celebrated ending the longest Train Drivers strike in history a strike that was blamed for crippling the railways And angered many, many travellers. His members haVe Got a 15 Pay Rise over three years. He is Mick Whelan, The General secretary of aslef. He said that his members strength, resilience, And determination was what had won that Pay Rise others say it was down to his crafty negotiation style. Mick whelan, welcome to political thinking. Thank you, nick. You finally got a deal after all that time how did you celebrate . Erm, by talking to the press. As soon as it becomes public knowledge, you And your colleagues obviously, so sky, bbc, the guardian, the usual outlets, And press will be Here Today With You And once you ve done that,
The problem is that pride is at stake. As well find it very difficult to return to the Negotiating Table when trump has been attacking gress of the trying to undermine the system try to find their economy for so long. It is not the kind of country that takes that kind of thing lying down. Having to swallow bits of the fast told. How some danis didnt quite just adopt stance of this is the United States he said the u. S. Is internationally i summited its sanctions but how much do these Developments Rican Hasan Rouhani he was a blunt Point Of View despite a reform line the country. You know. It is position is extremely weak now on his right flank the conservatives say he was naive to ever trusted the us and now he has egg on his face the reformist plaque see that down his is i
did there you could at least build up the economy even thats not working and he hasnt shown any Real Progress on the political reforms that he promised the one saving grace might be that these sanctions to force the
simply ignoring him. there you cannot afford just through ignore donald trump s threat and the sanctions because these sanctions actually very powerful aiming to cut off iran from the rest of the vote and they are aiming to do as much harm to european countries as they can in these kinds of sanctions are deemed illegal here in europe but standing up to donald trump is also very difficult because the sanctions are very powerful because america is very powerful on the economic stage the financial sector and also the energy markets dominated by the americans so they have a lot of influence and just to give you one example the european investment bank owned by the twenty eight member states also said they conned do business under these circumstances and if this topic entity doesn t do it how can you expect for example private banks to stand up to donald trump now that is foreign policy chief predicable going to the sister trade is integral to maintaining the iran nuclear