BBC - US President Donald Trump is “behaving like a mafia boss” over the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran and withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranian political analyst Prof Mohammad Marandi has said.

Speaking to BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur, Prof Marandi admitted that the Iranian economy will face difficulties but it will stabilise within a few months, adding that the country has been through much worse.

“The Americans want to crush the Iranian people, they want to humiliate the Iranian people and this simply is not going to work,” he said.

Watch the full interview on BBC World News on Wednesday 15 August and on Thursday 16 August 2018 on the BBC News Channel or watch again on BBC iPlayer (UK only).