iran on the side including iran including iran course including including of course including iran when you have i mean council of experts that all of that will be allowed to participate in the next. we cannot talk about democracy it's not about to go into the ballot it's about free campaigning it's about creating the condemn the checks and balances inside the system and the human rights that are respected but this site i would like to focus on one made sure i mean problem was that tension between sunnis and shia and we cannot jump over to the reality the problem is not only between iran and between the saudi arabia the problem inside the house inside the other board itself you have this big divide between two sick did in groups and this is at the core of what the war happening in syria and this is posed to could inflame at any point in their been on in kuwait and behind and this. problem i don't think that i mean putting the blame on one side would help definitely between iran and saudi arabia and that killing the real issue would have a lot but they're going to ising or defeat or deve

iran that is why the president of iran has put out a charter of the rights of the citizens. we believe that excesses exist, we need to address them and this is an issue of national security policy because that's how we derive our legitimacy from our people so we have to respect them, pure and simple. this was one of the major topics during our election chain and we're very clear on that. >> rose: we have to do much better on human rights. >> much better but there are some in our region who are far far behind. but the united states never complains about them. they're not designated by the united states. they support terrorism not a single one of them is designated. they are sending terrorists to your territory in 9/11. >> rose: there were saudis but no one has proven they were sent by the saudi government. >> has anyone proven anything by the iranians -- did you not -- >> rose: wait a minute -- >> did you know that a court in new york condemned iran for participating in 9/11. find us $11 billion for participating in 9/11. come on. a court in new york. go read the court docume

groups -- iraner group in yemen. there is a dangerous situation there because you have the gulf and the otherse helping. it is not like they are really helping good guys. they are helping less bad guys in some cases against them. that is something being to keep an eye on. the two places where i think iranian influence is right now is most important to the united is iraq, syria and afghanistan. we have wars going on impulse of those. we have a plan were i think the nice thing is, we are at the endgame in iraq. what is going on in syria? anybody know? nobody knows what the answer is. it is not good, and it has not ended, it is closer to the end. we need to plan for a post-isis phase in both those countries. one thing that has to happen is that we have to stop the advance of iran into both of those areas, and we have to push them back. and onehe main dangers, of iran's biggest goals has been to create what some call a shiite crescent, or a land bridge to the mediterranean. if you go through iraq and syria, you get to th

he iran back to them. they are causing no end of death and destruction and the other thing i'd like to note is israel is a great ally. holy cow. let's get back to that again. we can go from having iran as an ally, israel as a friend to me at best under the obama administration to israel being our only true friend in the region and he iran being the enemy to peace in the region. i think -- just if we change nothing else but that thought process, i think we have established a much better and much more realistic world order. some of the other groups obviously, their backing and iran is the seas in yemen and there's a bit of a dangerous situation there because you have the gulf arab states, uae and the others and they're not helping the good guys but there helping less bad guys and against them but we have a shiite, sunni, scrap going on and this is dangerous and it's something we need to keep an eye on but the uranian influence is most important to united states is that iraq and syria and afghanistan. we have

to fight the self-proclaimed islamic state and our fears of iran or at least the u.s. as stablish many fears about iran are based in security what's that about well i think it's about power in the region i think there's a fear of some of it driven by saudi arabia's pattern oil about iranian republicanism and other parts of it i think driven by quite the legitimate fear of israel that the iranian group so proxies are iranian backed was is such as hezbollah have studios a position on the israeli border i think this kind of pattern oir this view of the iran is really driving the policy and it's bringing the middle east beyond chaos to something far more dangerous i think what the peace movement around the world should be pushing forward this stein is for saudi arabia and iran to construct some form of grand bargain to bring the tensions in the region down not only for the sake of syria and iraq but also cause yemen he gets a shot historian and director of international studies at trinity college always a pleasure to get to talk to him thanks a lot. current authorities hav

in two thousand and seven supposed to be iran this was the year of iran two thousand and seven meaning the united states would actually use military force against iran but the secretary of state at that time condi rice and security fence rubber. gates really squashed it i mean they said no we can't we can't do that so there's a very rough equivalence here the difference now of course is that again the people who are pushing for a hard line against iran are really really don't have that much of a foreign policy strategy they're really people who are part of a broader anti islam domestic political strategy for the trump administration it is however very strongly influenced by a very right wing zionist group within that that unit in the white house so their view is essentially anti iran but they don't really have a clear understanding of what they want to do as i understand it what they want to do to basically prevent iran from continuing to be a power in the middle east continuing to have a nuclear program and so forth. so there is a big difference in that regard and i think the other th

the iranian side according to the body which has the beauty to verify iran's compliance iran has to be kept to the. d.l. by the american administration one day they certify the iran's compliance they are that they have impose new sanctions against iran and this seems to be somehow contradictory how can that how come that iran on one side you're saying that has kept the commitments and they are that they you are blaming not to keeping to the agreement and want to exit to the exist in a clear deal because the american current president believes that a deal is a disaster this is contradictory to what other countries believe many countries in the world and many other fishes believe that the d.l. is a deal which can contribute to the peace and cooperation in the walls and the in the region but the americans seem to have a different opinion and according to the reports we have been hearing from the last american administrations the u.s. president seems to. that he seems to be wanting to exit an abandoned in the clear d.l. but the point is that he wants to put the blame on the iranian side an

put including including iran including iran including iran course including including of course including iran when you have i mean a common set of experts that all the candy that will be allowed to participate in the next. we cannot talk about the democrats it's not about to go into the ballot it's about free campaigning it's about creating the condemn the checks and balances inside the system and the human rights that are respected but this site i would like to focus on one made sure i mean problem was that tension between sunnis and shia and we cannot jump over to the reality the problem is not only between iran and between the saudi arabia the problem inside the house inside the other board itself you have this big divide between two sick did in groups and this is at the core of what the war happening in syria and this is that could inflame at any point in their been on in kuwait and behind and this. problem i don't think that i mean putting the blame on one side would help definitely between iran and saudi arabia and that killing the real issue with a lot but antagonizing or differen

think of that as we think about iran. what we need when it comes to iran question that we need to move away from the same myopic focus on the joint company is a plan of action. the enron deal that the obama administration reached and we need to move to an iran policy and in an ist 75 for the trump administration used all insurance of american power to utilize and rollback iranian influence and hit some of the same areas that president reagan had at. the problem with where we are today is that the jcp oh eight is not only taken our energy and resources in this town but it's also created policy paralysis and that policy paralysis was exploited by iran for the past eight years and we are so afraid of the iranian shadow and were so afraid when we reached a nuclear deal that we would walk away from the nuclear deal that we weren't willing to counter iranian aggression and i would argue that the administration has to move away from this myopic focus on the jcpoa and moved to countering the a radiant and state where the regime i

charlie: including iran. guest: obviously including iran. that is why the president of iran has put out a charter of the rights of citizens. exist.eve that excesses we need to address those excesses. and we need to resolve them. as ans our own priority issue of national security for us, because that is how we derive our legitimacy. from our people. we have to respect them come up your and simple -- we had to respect them, pure and simple. president rouhani's platform is very clear on that. charlie: that we have to do better on human rights? guest: much better. much better. there are others in our region who are far behind, but the united states never complains about them. they are not designated by the united states. they support terrorism. not a single one of them is designated. they are sending terrorists to your territory. charlie: you have to be careful about that. they were saudi's, but no one has proven they were sent by the saudi government. guest: has anybody proven that anything about -- charlie: weight, weight! guest: did you know

want to pressure iran and to prevent iran from asserting its power in the region so this becomes a channel in order to you know downgrade iran's power in the region and to escalate pressure on iran for activities that u.s. deems. destabilizing in countries such as you know afghanistan yemen and so on but the from another vantage point these are areas where the two can't issued engage with each other in order to resolve the regional crisis so it depends basically on which point of view you're looking at the situation so the talks should continue caviar for a zombie author on former advisor to iran's nuclear negotiation team thank you the stories continue right after this. i. i. i i. i i. i i. i. i. all the feeling of. every the world experience. that you get out of the old old. old according to josh. come along for the ride. eighteen minutes into the program welcome back the e.u. is on a charm offensive to reduce the spread of euro skepticism across the bloc it's spending nearly three million euro on eighty four projects the money's been spent in several member states with more than half a

is perceived to be discarding the deal but at the expense of iran provoking iran and enraging iran in order to give up the nuclear deal and discard it now that is provided and complied with all its undertakings and the united states is defying its. doing its undertakings it's a good time probably for washington to force ron paul and enraged iran to give up the deal anyway a reigning officials have started in the last few weeks to provide one sentence in order to show their possible response to any of these two. scenarios the sentence that was first stated by iran's top security official mr shand funny and then repeated by president rouhani during his inauguration speech and also repeated later on several occasions including today is that iran would not initiated the rapid deal but it would provide a tough response to any violation it would provide an appropriate response getting that tehran has already a thought of these two scenarios and of course today what mr rouhani said shows that. iran believes that the chances for plan b. . are now much stronger and are higher that is to say th

israel could not allow the united states to come to terms with iran without iran coming to new terms with israel. if they were going to go in this direction israel could not accept they would do everything in its power to stand in the way of such a deal. a moment of tremendous honesty and to understand why israelis made this agreement go back to decades to the 1990's the soviet union had collapsed, iraq was defeated in the persian gulf war and this created a new geopolitical situation regionally and globally and that the global level the united states was now the sole superpower the that the regional bubble the balance of power had changed but it was not clear exactly what it would be replaced with. with iraq defeated for two previous decades behind-the-scenes they're collaborating with enjoying as secret security relationship given by the same imperatives. that with these two threat's gone one in which he reaches to the most powerful states and began viewing each other as protectionist threats and rivals not tell of iran's ideology theory had a relationship in the '80s despite the p

to talk a little bit of iran the iran nuclear deal is the best thing barack obama ever did in terms of foreign policy and it has been working which is what donald trump hates because he wants to say it's not working wants to get out of it so he can open up the option of some kind of military intervention which would be absolutely catastrophic but to hear him say i mean one thing is to think that there's probably people in the administration that want to find an excuse to get rid of this deal he actually said it actually said we really don't want to have to certify this and we're looking for a way to not have to certify iran as being compliant with the nuclear deal so he is looking for a way to get out which doesn't mean to the end of the deal because there are other countries that are part of this agreement so what he also could be doing is trying to push north korea enough so that they will back out of the deal and there are certainly plenty of hardliners in north korea that never liked the deal that said we should go full steam ahead and do our get our nuclear weapon and that's our g

iran on the side including iran including iran course including including of course including iran when you have i mean one set of experts that all of that would be allowed to participate in that action. we cannot talk about the democrats it's not about to go into the ballot it's about free campaigning it's about creating the condemn the checks and balances inside the system and the human rights that are respected but this site i would like to focus on one made sure i mean problem was that tension between sunnis and shia and we cannot jump over to the reality the problem is not only between iran and between the saudi arabia the problem inside the house inside the other board itself you have this big divide between two sick did in groups and this is at the core of what the war happening in syria and this is. could inflame at any point in their been on in kuwait and behind and this. problem i don't think that i mean putting the blame on one side would have definitely between iran and saudi arabia and that killing the real issue would have a lot but antagonizing or defeat or develop one pa

petraeus united states and iran. that is a non-profit organization to facilitate purchase a patient as part of civic life and was telling me in the washington area this is the third largest area of the arabian americans. although board there he left with his parents and grew up in sweden and arrived as an adult and iran has been a focus of his studies his ph.d. thesis dealt with the arabia and israeli relations and his first book published day decade ago of a treacherous alliance them the second book examine those relations during the obama administration but now his latest work losing an enemy is the third part of a trilogy. given the nuclear agreement but now who knows to see where that is going with those relations but again delving into the u.s. soredium relationship how that was negotiated. so to have exceptional access consulted in briefed and also maintained frequent contact drawing on the other primary sources with these historic negotiations but this book is important not only is a detailed history and why d

this event is courtesy of iran's press tv. it's just over 30 minutes. >> heavenly god, the compassionate and merciful, i, as the president of the republic of iran, and before the iranian nation -- i would swear by the omnipotent god to protect and safeguard the religious faith and the islamic establishment as well as the constitution of the country. i will use the best of my power in playing my role in the responsibilities that i have shouldered. i will also devote myself to serving the people and the development of perfection within the country, the promotions of faith and morals, supporting righteousness and the spread of the word of truth and justice. i will stay away from any egoism, and i would respect freedom, respect for individuals and the rights that the iranian constitution recognizes for the people. i will support those principles in protecting the borders and the political and economic independence as well as the cultural independence of the country. i will spare no efforts, and by seeking assistance from god and b

charlie: including iran. guest: obviously including iran. that is why the president of iran has put out a charter of the rights of the citizens. we believe that excesses exist. we need to address those excesses. and we need to resolve them. this is our own priority as an issue of national security for us, because that is how we derive our legitimacy, from our people. so we have to respect them, pure and simple. this was one of the major topics during our election campaign and president rouhani's platform is very clear on that. charlie: that we have to do better on human rights? guest: much better. much better. there are others in our region who are far behind, but the united states never complains about them. they are not designated by the united states. they support terrorism. not a single one of them is designated. they are sending terrorists to your territory. 15 on 9/11. charlie: you do have to be careful with that. but no onesaudis, has proven they were sent by the saudi government. guest: has anybody proven that anything about iran? ai

put including including iran including iran including iran course including including of course including iran when you have i mean one set of experts that all of that would be allowed to participate in that action. we cannot talk about democracy it's not about going to the ballot it's about free campaigning it's about creating the condemn the checks and balances inside the system and the human rights that are respected but this side i would like to focus on one made sure i mean problem was that tension between sunnis and shia and we cannot jump over to the reality the problem is not only between iran and between the saudi arabia the problem inside the house inside the other board itself you have this big divide between. did in groups and this is at the core of what the war happening in syria and this is bold to could inflame at any point in their been on in kuwait and behind and this. problem i don't think that i mean putting the blame on one side would help definitely between iran and saudi arabia and that killing the real issue would have a lot but they're going to ising or defeat or d

neither iran or turkey... it has been conveyed to me that iran is putting pressure, this was discussed last week, iran is putting a lot of pressure on the kurds, because they don't accept what is happening. the iranians, let alone the kurds... your message to the kurds is, be careful what you wish for? yes, and rationalise even the question. this is very important. self—determination is something in the unity of iraq. complete independence from iraq is something else. so really, the wording of the questions should be very clear. one factor we have... this is what the iraqi government should focus on when they talk to him on this issue. the referendum has to take place. they cannot run away from this. but there is another way of rationalising the issue of the referendum in the questioning. the statement that should come out on this issue of the referendum, if they continue this is to separate iraq and dismember kurdistan, this is going to be very bad for everybody in the region, not only iraq. this is the pro

but twice now he has declared iran in compliance. however he expects to declare iran noncompliant when the next review is due. they have put together a team of aids to pull together the intelligence to do that. earlier this week, iran's president said his nation's nuclear program could be restarted within hours if new u.s. sanctions are imposed. my next guest was key to putting the sanctions into place that caused the iran deal to happen. former treasurer and cia official david cohen joins me now. glad to have you. >> glad to be here. >> president trump says he is sure that iran is not in compliance but he wants to do a review. i don't understand this. is this standard? is this unprecedented for the president to arrive at a conclusion first and then have a process? >> well, it's -- it's very disconcerting. and it stand it is intelligence process on its head. the question that the president is asked to certify every 90 days under legislation that congress enacted as part of the iran nuclear deal is whether iran is complying with its o

posed by iran, specifically the obama administration's nuclear deal with iran. here is the beginning of that interview. >> your old friend, admiral james stavridis said on wednesday there's going to be a violent civil war, massive refugees and any military intervention in that country would have to come from colombia and/or brazil. do you agree with those three assessments? >> i think his assessment is right. democracy is over right now in venezuela. people ask can there be a coup. there has been a coup. >> reporter:. madura has prevented the venezuelan people with having a say. it's a fab lick for the venezuelan people suffering all kinds of deprivations based on the failed policies of two regimes now. it's really a situation that's intolerable from the venezuelan people's perspective. what we're endeavoring to do is work with partners in the region and work on behalf awful the venezuelan people to help rescue them from this take state tore ship. >> do you see a military enter veengs from any outside source? >> i don't think so. i think what's really required i

in two thousand and seven supposed to be iran this was the year of iran two thousand and seven meaning the united states would actually use military force against iran but the secretary of state at that time condi rice and secretary of defense robert. gates really squashed it i mean they said no we can't we can't do that so there's a very rough equivalence here the difference now of course is that again the people who are pushing for a hard line against iran are really really don't have that much of a foreign policy strategy they're really people who are part of a broader anti islam domestic political strategy for the trump ministration it is however very strongly influenced by very right wing zionist group within that that unit in the white house so their view is essentially anti iran but they don't really have a clear understanding of what they want to do as i understand it what they want to do to basically prevent iran from continuing to be a power in the middle east continuing to have a nuclear program and so forth. so there is a big difference in that regard and i think the other

to talk a little about iran the iran nuclear deal is the best thing barack obama ever did in terms of foreign policy and it has been working which is what donald trump hates because he wants to say it's not working wants to get out of it so he can open up the option of some kind of military intervention which would be absolutely catastrophic but to hear him say i mean one thing is to think that there's probably people in the administration that want to find an excuse to get rid of this deal he actually said it actually said we really don't want to have to certify this and we're looking for a way to not have to certify iran as being compliant with the nuclear deal so he is looking for a way to get out which doesn't mean to the end of the deal because there are other countries that are part of this agreement so what he also could be doing is trying to push north korea enough so that they will back out of the deal and there are certainly plenty of hardliners in north korea that never like the deal said we should go full steam ahead and do our get our nuclear weapon and that's our guarant

or that as a conspiracy against iran or better supported iran's enemies including israel or that has violated human rights in the region especially with regard to the palestinians and so on and so forth this is actually the basis of bill that has been already worked out by the national security foreign policy commission of the uranium polly meant and it's expected to be introduced to the floor in coming weeks and it's expected to be you know to pass with the overwhelming majority of the m.p.'s but the second set of options pertain to bill's area that are the target of the new u.s. sanctions that's i.r.g.c. of all its force and iran's missile island astri's in the same bill that is being worked out by the parliament. a five hundred million dollar budget has been approved to be given to. all its force in order to expand its military presence in the region as the main target of the new us sanctions as well as iran's missile island astri's two hundred fifty million dollars this increase in budget is dedicated to iran's missile industries to develop the technology and production the third

you asked me a question. >> the iran deal -- question. >> the iran deal. > iranian regime has killed more americans than anywhere in the world. in the middle of negotiations -- by the way [indiscernible] in the middle of negotiations with iran, their spiritual chanted death to america. they are chanting death to israel all the time. the idea that obama would build his whole middle east policy -- and of course, they had a path to a nuclear weapon in their isolated. it was listed with no quid pro quo. iran is responsible -- it took , i am no big fan of the saudis, but that is the situation there. the duties are supported by iran. >> if they had done nothing, they would have gotten a nuclear bomb. was think obama [indiscernible] that america was the problem. he made it very clear that we were not going to put troops on the ground. we would not exert influence, except for when it came to overthrowing american allies, like egypt. [laughter] by the way, egypt supported the muslim brotherhood, which is the fountain of the jihad against the west. the muslim brotherhood. it is where al qaeda,

angle to the iran story? trump was also making noises about iran, saying he thought iran was not in compliance with the nuclear deal. what does that mean? jean-paul: in my opinion, no matter what happens with the cabinet choices, the greatest risk to iran's investment climate is that they are external. not just from the threat of increased sanctions, but the ongoing reluctance of u.s. banks , and banks in the region that want to do business with iran. that will remain a perennial threat over the next four years. i don't see that changing. i don't think there is anything that can be done domestically in iran to change that. out last results came week, sales and iran grew over 100%. the market share increase over four percentage points. that is a massive increase. it is not just a niche market. there is a lot of untapped potential, and a lot of europeans are willing to invest. tracy: scenario where the u.s. backs away even more from iran, does europe become the de facto business partner? jean-paul: that is a gr

you know these sanctions really they strike me as very interesting because if i remember the iran deal that obama put together the democrats were like sheering in applauding like hey we found a peaceful solution to this issue of nuclear weapons while the republicans were screaming tom cotton's of the world were and all of them were screaming that they were making a deal with the devil when like all of that but now it seems that both republicans and democrats in their fervor to get north korea and i guess the lumber iran in there as well have basically backed away from the deal or potentially could run away from the deal that the democrats were applauding. you know well it leg in the game of politics right at the actual motivation how much the democrats really really supported i mean there's obviously the argument that the apac in the israel lobby probably doesn't support the iran deal on the whole. at this point isn't that the iranians have really violated anything i mean they have theirs that is far as monitors are concerned the iranians are not violated any part of the deal is simply

almost a billion dollar deal with iran. trying to basically have peaceful economies economic relations with iran and russia and they're the ones being hammered the hardest by the. good economics of the world good economics is what creates peace if everyone is trading with each other less of an inclination to go to war with each other less of an inclination for things to get out of hand really quickly makes me. know what you think of the topics covered on facebook and twitter . coming up. provoking interview with author of. how the creation of nations in the middle east by the british empire and others outside of the region influence world politics to watch. the. i did the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone signed up to be free again poisoned by our own people i've seen stuff that was nukes or biological and chemical products the said do not find the truck tires all types of styrofoam all polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connectio

. >> yeah, he is iran's sort of war general outside of iran. so all of the foreign operations they are involved in, iraq, syria, lebanon, yemen, he is sort of the architect of all of those operations. >> now, sulimani says syria is their red line. it appears to people like general mcmaster, they are attempting to build a highway from tehran to the sea and doing it from syria. is that sulimani's creation? >> no, it pre existed him. syria was, had been the only allie for iran during the iran-iraq war. iran has been incredibly ali alienated to the 1979 revolution, much to their own behavior, their own cause, kind of a self inflicted wound. syria has been a long lasting ilie, with iran, before sort of the '90s when sulimani took a tenure. since then, syria has been vital to iran's support for hezbollah and lebanon, iran's pressure against israel, they see as the main enemy in the region. >> they have been acting in iraq and have been successful in sort of replacing the american foot print with an iranian foot print that happened after they have wit

neither iran nor turkey... it has been conveyed to me that iran is putting pressure, this was discussed last week, iran is putting a lot of pressure on the kurds, because they don't accept what is happening. the iranians, let alone the kurds... your message to the kurds, as they prepare to go to the polls, is — be careful what you wish for? yes, and rationalise even the question. this is very important. one factor in all of these publications... self—determination is something in the nature of iraq. complete independence from iraq is something else. really, the wording of the questions should be very clear. one factor we have... this is what the iraqi government should focus on when they talk to mosul. the referendum has to take place. they cannot run away from this. but there is another way of rationalising the issue of the referendum in the questioning. the statements that should come out on this issue of the referendum, if they continue to say, this is to separate iraq and kurdistan, this is going to be

into law a move to iran considers to be a violation of the nuclear agreement under that deal iran officially agree to hold parts of its nuclear program in exchange for western countries lifting sanctions against them and at the time they dream it would be used as a landmark diplomatic achievement by most major world powers including all those who had signed on to it russia of course is one of the signatories and its foreign minister has warned that u.s. sanctions against iran could in fact undermine the regional balance of stablish by the j.c. . the startling new sanctions are illegal in principle but when they sanctions are used to get advantage in a carefully collaborated balance and such a balance has been reached off the iran nuclear do these are irresponsible actions that can undermine this balance the u.s. shouldn't use such provocation here we are talking about an individual's national interests but about the interests of the whole regions where we are trying to secure non-nuclear states the recent sanctions were approved despite washington having confirmed that iran has in fact staye

almost almost a billion dollar deal with iran for a new automobile so that they're trying to basically have peaceful economies economic relations with iran and russia and they're the ones getting hammered the hardest by the. good economics of the world money good economics is what creates peace if everyone is trading with each other less of an inclination to go to war with each other less of an inclination for things to get out of hand really quickly . as we go to break we're going to let us know what you think of the topics covered on facebook and twitter. dot com coming up highlights of his thought provoking interview with author of black about how the creation of nations in the middle east by the british empire and others outside of the region influence world politics. spent countless hours going through documents that tell the story. corporate media really used to talk about the. i'm going to pay to clear picture about how disturbing. for. these are stories. posed. by washington politics. that's how. i'll make sure you don't get railroad you'll get the straight talk in the straight

government wants to sanction you dons missile program and that iran. summit republican guards corps or any other things. section eight of that law while it's severely basically a nuclear agreement so this is a signal from tehran that whatever is making you dislike us whatever it is that you don't like we make sure that fully funded and that's why they're funding their missile program given the fact that the u.s. government is threatening north korea with nuclear weapons having come vention and most of this is the basic thing a country can have so you know they are u.s. sanctions actually having a desired effect from what washington wants. obviously not because the aim of the sanctions were to put pressure on iran's missile program put pressure on i r g c you know it's military and it's having the opposite effect in fact it is basically boosting their standing becoming popular internally because people are realizing that you don't is relatively safe in this part of the world because you can defend it unlike iraq or afghanistan iran is able to defend its

a political analyst from tehran he sees iran has every right to boost its military. we do not have any kind of international law that banned development of come vention all weapons and iran's missile i think knology falls within the same scope so it's all one of those excessive demands that the united states you know is raising every now and then it is believed in tehran that the engagement policy that president obama started and now some believe that mr trump is also continuing the same kind of approach towards tehran is that pushing to iran back one step at a time first the creasing it's a nuclear deterrence power and stopping its nuclear and this reason technology growth then the second component of iran's power is its missile and this three that would go after that and they did it i mean through the recent sanctions that they ratified and imposed against iran. with elections looming for europe's economic powerhouse germany campaigning seems to be somewhat like the list or the spike the potential significance of september's vote especially in contrast to how impas

that country is iran. iran was first designated by the united states as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1984, training, arming and funding of terrorists continued unabated to this day. terrorist proxies are doing the iranian regimes in iraq and syria. through its partner hezbollah, iran has engaged in preparing for war in lebanon. it is building an arsenal of weapons and battle hardened troops. liz: newest ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley calling out iran at the u.n. security council saying iran stands out as a country that is training, funding and arming terrorists to this day. this, on the heel of a new resolution passed unanimously aimed at stopping terrorists from acquiring arms. look at defense contractors boeing continuing to tick lower and end in the red. lockheed martin closing higher. former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., he is a fox news contributor john bolton. good to see you, john. >> glad to be with you. liz: will sanctions be enough to stop iran from sponsoring terrorism and icbm production?

to talk a little about iran. the iran nuclear deal is the best thing barack obama ever did in terms of foreign policy and it has been working which is what donald trump hates because he wants to say it's not working wants to get out of it so he can open up the option of some kind of military intervention which would be absolutely catastrophic but to hear him say i mean one thing is to think that there's probably people in the administration that want to find an excuse to get rid of this deal actually said it actually said we really don't want to have to certify this and we're looking for a way to not have to certify iran as being compliant with the nuclear deal so he is looking for a way to get out which doesn't mean to the end of the deal because there are other countries that are part of this agreement so what he also could be doing is trying to push north korea enough so that they will back out of the deal and there are certainly plenty of hardliners in north korea that never liked the deal that said we should

the islamic republic of iran wants the best of relations with its neighbors. we have religious bonds, historical and cultural commonalities with our neighbors that pave the ground for regional synergy and convergence, so we stretch the hand of friendship to our neighbors, and we believe that only by means of dialogue and regional cooperation is it possible to move in line with restoration and progress and development of the region. foreign powers only think of their shortsighted designs -- foreign powers that are only thinking of their shortsighted goals create further instability and chaos in the region. they are sowing dichotomy so situation. we are seeking a region that is coherent. we want the voices of moderation. we want this voice to be heard all over the region. , voices ofion hatred, violence, and extremism could never be heard. years hopeful that after of trial and error, we have come to this shared understanding that the only way to eradicate terrorism, this global phenomenon, is trusting the people and attaining a legitimacy. extensive regional coo

poa is an example of national consensus in iran. without the support and vote of and the support of the leader of islamic revolution jcpoa would not get anywhere and it cannot be perpetuated. the world should know any kind would see a unanimous reaction by the iranian people. we need to resort to national wesideration and cooperation there isso realize only one ship for us all and there is one person sailing it. we also you need to use a compass and work together to sail through these rough waters. this is not in the only achievement of the islamic establishment, and has also pulled out some other successes. some achievements like independence for the country, unprecedented security, military and enhancement of the military prowess. also, penetration into the hearts and minds of people in the region as the fruits of our perseverance in supporting the pricesed and paying the for the same cause. that is the result of following .he principles of guidance we should also know that safeguarding these achievements economy that is and dynam

there are reports that irans have back and forth with them. any idea if the iranian revolutionary guard forces are in venezuela? >> it wouldn't be surprising. of course, their priorities are elsewhere, what they've done to light the middle east on fire, to flame this very destructive cycle of sectarian violence in the middle east. that's what i think we have to hold the rigc accountable for, pull the kurt tan back on their subversive activities across the middle east. >> if there are revolts in the street on sunday and beyond, they were ruthless, they cut it down. would you expect maduro's government do the same thing with demonstrations? >> he's already doing it. they're already brutally repressing the venezuelan people. you see these gangs of thugs. legitimate security forces are a tool -- they use security forces as a tool of oppression. even you're seeing it become more and more likely and more and more routine is the use of these gangs of thugs as an extension of an oppressive or authoritarian regime. you see this in iran in the form of w

the islamic republic of iran wants the best of relations with its neighbors. we have religious bonds, historical and cultural commonalities with our neighbors that pave the ground for regional synergy and convergence, so we stretch the hand of friendship to our neighbors, and we believe that only by means of dialogue and regional cooperation is it possible to move in line with and progress and development of the region. only think of --ir shortsighted designs foreign powers that are only thinking of their shortsighted instability further and chaos in the region. they are sowing dichotomy so they can benefit from the situation. we want the voices of wisdom and dialogue to be heard all over the region. othereator of islam and faiths, voices of hatred, violence, and extremism could never be heard. we are hopeful that after years of trial and error, we have come to the shared understanding that the only way to eradicate peoplesm is trusting the obtaining legitimacy through ballot boxes on one hand and extensive regional cooperation on the other. as in the past fou

paul: let's move to iran. the white house is conduct a review of the iran policy and the nuclear deal. it said iran is meeting the terms of the nuclear deal and violating the spirit of the accord. what does that mean? >> the reporting on this for the most of part was incorrect. secretary tillerson was clear, iran was not in full compliance with the deal. he underscores there were violations. but at the end of the day they decided to certify iran was complying with the conditions laid out by congress. i thought that was a mistake. iran is putting forth these claims of nuclear innocence. and that's just factually not correct. i think come october when there comes another certification it will be beholding on the administration to not certainify and make a decision about what to do next. we are going to have a much tougher time rolling out a more come premembersive iran policy. you can decide how we want to pull out or move from there. paul: thank you very much for being here. the white house tries to move past l

into law a move to iran considers to be a violation of the nuclear agreement under that deal iran officially agree to halt parts of its nuclear program in exchange for western countries lifting sanctions against them and at the time they groom it was viewed as a landmark diplomatic achievement by most major world powers including all those who had signed on to it russia of course is one of the signatories and its foreign minister has warned that u.s. sanctions against iran could in fact undermine the regional balance established by the j.c. . you need actual sanctions are illegal in principle but when those sanctions are used to get advantage in a carefully collaborated balance and such a balance has been reached off the iran nuclear do these are irresponsible actions that can undermine this balance the u.s. shouldn't use such provocation here we are talking about an individual's national interests but about the interests of a whole region where we are trying to secure non-nuclear status the recent sanctions were approved despite washington having confirmed that iran has in fact stayed in co

neither iran or turkey... it has been conveyed to me that iran is putting pressure, this was discussed last week, iran is putting a lot of pressure on the kurds, because they don't accept what is happening. the iranian is, let alone the kurds... your message to the kurds is, be careful what you wish for? yes, and rationalise even the question. this is very important. one factor in all of these publications... self—determination is something in the nature of iraq. independence from iraq is something else. really, the wording of the questions should be very clear. one factor we have... this is what the iraqi government should focus on when they talk to mosul. the referendum has to take place. they cannot run away from this. but there is another way of rationalising the issue of the referendum in the questioning. the statement that should come out on this issue of the referendum, if they continue this is to separate iraq and kurdistan, this is going to be very bad for everybody in the region, not only iraq. thi

i mean, we have seen a breakthrough with the iran nuclear deal that i think will block iran's path to the bomb. narrator: after intense negotiations by the united states and european nations working with iran, there was an announcement made in vienna. it is a great honor for us to announce that we have reached an agreement on the iranian nuclear issue. the people who were involved in the negotiation developed a rapport and an understanding of one another and a certain trust in what one another was saying and that they could deliver. e.u. + 3 and the islamic republic of iran welcome this historic joint comprehensive plan of action which will ensure that iran's nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful and mark a fundamental shift in their approach for this issue. kimball: barack obama was very devoted to the diplomatic approach. obama: iran will not get its hands on a nuclear bomb. the region, the united states, and the world will be more secure. kimball: combined with the pressure of sanctions, with cooperation from the europeans and other international partners, and an iranian lea