NICK SCHIFRIN:

He is. And the U.S. continues to blame him for regional instability, full stop. And there won't be a day that goes by this week where U.S. officials will not try and put pressure on Iran. Secretary of State and national security adviser are both speaking to a group that advocates for Iranian regime change. The president, as you mentioned, is chairing a Security Council meeting that will focus a lot on Iran. Secretary State's meeting with family members of political prisoners inside Iran. So what they're trying to do, is increase pressure on Iran and have Europe join them.

But Europe says whoa, wait a minute, hold on. We are trying to keep Iran inside the nuclear deal and you'll see European officials meet with Iranian officials, meet with themselves to try and resist the U.S. pressure, trying to help Iran get around all of these sanctions, which are going to increase throughout the rest of this month and into early November. And U.S. official made a rare admission to me. He said that look, we do want European help. We need European help to put the pressure on Iran. But right now, Europe says we don't want to put pressure on Iran that may lead them to leave the deal. So it's not clear that Europe's going to play ball.