war against iran." what does it mean to be engaged in economic war? economic war targets civilians. military war targets military personnel, and civilians are sometimes collateral damage. but an economic war targets civilians. secretary pompeo has said, we want the iranian people to change their government. so, putting these two together, that means the united states is terrorising iranian people in order to achieve political objectives. that's the classical definition of terrorism. the americans have said consistently, mike pompeo has said that their goal is not regime change, "we want to change iran's behaviour so that it behaves like a normal country," that is what he has said. mike pompeo — iran is a normal country, the us is not a normal country. which of normal country violates every international agreement? imf, nafta, the paris climate convention, unesco, the human rights council — is that what you call normal? let me put to you, though, you say your country is suffering from the sanctions.

you know iran sees. no guarantee if they engage in talks with this administration in the united states. that the other president or another person or even the same person bo you know there's something you know strange and different again so there is no guarantee for you really is to engage in so there's no guarantees for anyone i mean russia is in a pretty similar situation when it comes to compared with iran i mean it faces the same type of political pressures sanctions intelligence after future it's competing with the united states and certain geopolitical fronts and yet i think. that the russians have been taking a very different they're very critical of the american policy but president putin has never said it worth about president trump personally. foolish you know let me complete my answer by saying that you're wrong does not rule out the possibility of any negotiations with the united states iran has said if the united states returns to the nuclear deal and compensates its commitments under the nu

iran intercepted the ship after iran denied that a drone was downed. the pentagon said indeed it did happen. let's get to jennifer griffin. she's live for us at the pentagon. jen, what do we know? >> trace, u.s. officials say they believe that iran has forcibly taken yet another oil tanker against its will. we received this statement. "we're aware of reports that iranian forces seized a british oil tanker, this is the second time in just over a week. the u.k. has been the target of violence by the regime. the tanker is heading to iran and gone dark according to shipping officials that say they have lost contact with the ship, which was in the persian gulf passing through the strait of for muscle. the u.k. security council is holding an emergency meeting to decide how to respond. we received this statement from the ship's owners. >> yesterday the iranian ney individual said they captured a united emirates tanker last weekend. president trump addressed the rising tensions moments ago. >> we hope for their sake, they don't do anything foolish. if they do,

sanctions on iran. i think the e.u. has been very patient and will continue to be very patient on this deal it's not only because it very much worries that there isn't going to be any broader deal like the united states talks about that will take the nuclear components into account and again stop iran from from enriching uranium so it thinks that this is really the best shot possible to stop iran from possibly getting a nuclear weapon it isn't going to give up fairly imposing sanctions of course would mean admitting that the deal is dead and despite being offered to do this many times the e.u. is not willing to declare this deal dead it wants iran to reverse course you want to iran to reverse course with that teri schultz in brussels thank you we will check in with you on another story in just a moment or let's take this story now into the u.s. capital i'm joined tonight by injury miller he's with the project on middle east democracy that's a think tank and you worked at the u.s. state department served

sanctions on iran. i think the e.u. has been very patient and will continue to be very patient on this deal it's not only because it very much worries that there isn't going to be any broader deal like the united states talks about that will take the nuclear components into account and again stop iran from from enriching uranium so it thinks that this is really the best shot possible to stop iran from possibly getting a nuclear weapon it isn't going to give up early imposing sanctions of course would mean admitting that the deal is dead and despite being offered to do this many times the e.u. is not willing to declare this deal dead it wants iran to reverse course you want to iran to reverse course with that teri schultz in brussels thank you we will check in with you on another story in just a moment. or let's take this story now into the u.s. capital i'm joined tonight by injury miller he's with the project on middle east democracy that's a think tank and you worked at the u.s. state department served

and iran head back to the negotiating table. i think that's absolutely right i think the term of ministration despite putting massive financial economic and some would even say military pressure on these lama public is looking to get iran to come back to the negotiating table to iran to set some of these different preconditions i shot a couple of drone has shot a drone out of the sky has fired on tankers that using mines iran i think is trying to get the conditions ready for it to eventually come back to the table because i think it knows that it eventually will have to come back to the table and but i mean just yesterday and we have to address this a british newspaper publishing these leaked memos from the former you came back to washington essentially saying. he claims that trump pulled out of the nuclear deal with no plan on what to do next does the united states have a plan well the plan seems to be to use exactly the same sanctions exactly the same tools that got us to the nuclear deal but again once you get to the table to

deep concern over iran's pursuit of activity is not in line with its commitment calling for iran if it wants to stay in the deal as it professes to want to do to come back in line immediately without delay and calling on all the parties in terms of a joint commission to act responsibly to deescalate tensions now broadly speaking 2 points to make about this the 1st is that this is not and this is important i think the 3 triggering the formal dispute resolution mechanisms contained in the j c p o s a it's apparently thought that these breaches are not sufficient to warrant a move like that a move that could in itself escalate tensions and have the effect of shutting down what small room for maneuver there remains the 3 of course remember trying to keep the nuclear deal alive delicately here playing the middle ground on the one hand they've got to express some concern on the other hand of course they retain some faint optimism that iran can be talked around that some bridge can be found between washington and tehran faint hope indeed perhaps but that leads to the 2nd point which is tha

day to complain about iran which using its commitments the us says iran has bad intentions well if enrichment is bad why do they enrich themselves the only country that has used nuclear weapons against innocent people is the united states the 2015 deal is essentially transactional iran curbs nuclear activity so it can sell oil and generate revenue that process stopped working when the u.s. restarted sanctions and now it's playing out on the open seas earlier this week the british royal marines seized an iranian oil tanker off the coast of japan after the horizon is called it an act of piracy that undercuts london's commitment to the nuclear deal and a breach of the j.c. . and on wednesday u.s. officials once again put out a call for countries willing to form a military coalition to patrol shipping lanes off the coast of iran and yemen a move that could make things even worse the potential for things going on without . getting an agreement. is very difficult as well every nation. regardless. agreement went direct french president emanuel necron has said it is time again for dialogue american s

is my rainbow toward iran. going to go down to the shop that does the show of course i am scared of receiving a lot of death threats specially when i see that the government attack me through cyber are me calling me a prostitute calling me ugly the agent of cia agent of m i 6 this kind of things actually from to beginning it was kind of hurting me but not now not anymore this is are you ready. maybe. i have so many bad a big one as one day many wrong how the power to run the country. my dream is just. as well as that. can cyprus every be reunified a journey along the border and countering hopes and prejudices it soon becomes clear that the decade long division has driven the greek and turkish populations farther apart and yet there are still those on both sides who refuse to accept this life on the borders. next to tell you. how come to the euro max you tube channel. closed goldmine of stories. with exclusive. kind of fussy concerning heartland culture in europe. the place to be for curious minds. do it yoursel

iran is supporting its erstwhile allies. what i think is completely exaggerated is the extent to which iran was able to use the normalisation of relations as a result of thejcpoa, in your phrase, to ramp this up. in my view, i understand why — exactly why iran has been doing that. it's because it's weak militarily, very weak. it spends one fifth of what saudi arabia spends on armaments, an infinitesimal amount compared to the united states, and it's using its neighbourhood as its form of defence. now, in my view, since most of the iranians are desperate for a normalisation of the relationships, that had we settled the nuclear deal, then those other issues 00:08:41,736 --> 2147483051:41:05,583 would have been subject, could have 2147483051:41:05,583 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 been subject, to negotiation. your book makes me wonder, too. you've written this book understanding iran and why it distrusts britain. it's a fascinating book, and indicates that the links go, with the country, very deep diplomatically. you know foreign

to begin with iran was not happy with the j.c. pos in the 1st place both parties came down from you know from there are demands ideal deal that they had in mind and got to say and now you have the united states reneging on the same deal that iran was not happy with ask and it to step even back even further so. basically the question here into iran is that what should we are for now amend the entire nuclear file to the united states iran's in no leverage in the in the region that is basically and very effective the you know is used as a deterrent means or iran's ballistic missiles that the only basic you know defense means that tehran has these are the questions what what can we offer to tromp and if it's not j.c. if you know it's g c p u it would be of course different from the j.c. pure and iranians were not happy with the j.c. if you're a surely they want to be with another version of it that the trumpet administration can sell within the united states so iran's choice is not and i think the other question is who can we trust in

iran. islamic republic of iran. will not rely on any country not to let alone insects or the european countries but right now we are going to use any any shit if that will. wait the. sanctions. from this economic war that mr trump has a started against iran we are going to use any route from china india. russia and neighboring countries any of route. and we have a lot of we have different. economic partners we have agreements with many different of these. countries so we have a lot of initiatives with any of these countries and our partners one of them is the european route and one of them is that we do not we are not relying on this on this route and nor we have any hope for it and he has. and we have been all fish ily i told him not to. not to rely on this route i will of course if it works then we are going to use that but we are not going to wait for this for this mechanism to work in accordance to get. to this strategy day economy strategy that we have you have to use any opportunity that. that is available wha

iran's changing. pop music plays in the capital tehran, clerics compete with pop stars for influence. most iranians were born after the 1979 revolution. the younger generation is more open to the world. it's these liberal iranians that donald trump believes he can win over, but instead, anti—american sentiment is unifying iran. translation: it's true that iran is pushing very hard with the issue of nuclear energy. perhaps we are pushing too hard, but if nuclear energy is bad for us, then it should be bad for everyone else as well. the us and iran needn't be enemies. the paint on this mural is fading. four years ago, with the nuclear deal, america and iran showed they could reach an agreement, but it was never built on trust. what happened here a0 years ago has poisoned relations ever since. iranian students stormed the us embassy, holding american diplomats hostage for more than a year. i was from the first day here. this is me. it was christmas. we wanted the american hostages... hussein sheikholes

or european powers take military within iran, iran will retaliate. what needs to happen at this stage is there are talks between iran and the united states going minister'she foreigign trip your last week indicated. the those conversrsations need o continue and all sites need to begin to deeeescalat whatever actions either the united states or any other powers take in the persian gulf region, iran will retaliate and eventually these tit-for-tat devastating military confrontation in the middle east. but it seems no one really wants it at this time. amy: narges bajoghli, thank you for being with us professor of , middle east studies at johns hopkins university. her book "iran reframed: anxieties of power in the islamic republic" will be out in september. she is also the director of "the skin that burns," a documentary film about survivors of chemical warfare in iran. when we come back, we go to hawaii to look at the growing resistance against the construction of a massive .elescope on top of mauna kea we will go to that site. stay with h us. ♪ [music

with how to deal with iran. including the president sounding optimistic only to change his tone. >> on thursday, he authorized a u.s. senator to initiate talks with iranian officials. the next day, he reversed course and said rand paul had been given permission to reach out to tehran. >> even so, the president is sounding doubtful it will do any good. >> this only goes to show what i'm saying about iran. trouble, nothing but trouble. i think was right about iran. and let's see what happens. >> are you concerned about a broader financial situation in the strait of hormuhormuz. >> no, we have the greatest people in the world. we have the greatest equipment in the world. we have the most deadly ships -- we don't want to use them, but they're the most deadly ships ever conceived. we hope for their sake they don't do anything foolish, if they do, they'll pay a price nobody has. >> let's put it into focus with natasha lindstaedt from england. good to have you. >> thanks for having me. >> the president giving mixed mes

sanctions on iran. i think the e.u. has been very patient and will continue to be very patient on this deal it's not only because it very much worries that there isn't going to be any broader deal like the united states talks about that will take the nuclear component into account and again stop iran from from enriching uranium so it thinks that this is really the best shot possible to stop iran from possibly getting a nuclear weapon it isn't going to give up early imposing sanctions of course would mean admitting that the deal is dead and despite being offered to do this many times the e.u. is not willing to declare this deal dead it wants iran to reverse course it wants iran to reverse course with it teri schultz in brussels thank you we will check in with you on another story in just a moment or let's take this story now into the u.s. capital i'm joined tonight by andrew miller he's with the project on middle east democracy that's a think tank and you worked at the u.s. state department served on the

iran that is not included it's exempt from the production company agreement however iran was anxious by the fact that it played no role in this agree about it and in fact it was russia leading leave. open oil producers and saudi arabia the leader of who would reach agreement outside opec before they come to the meeting so it felt as if it has been isolated and it's a very old step to isolate iran since if is if our own being member of opec and that this is it is the 3rd biggest producer of oil in rb after iraq and saudi arabia i think you russians are aware of that and that's why they have been calming iran to accept the extension and iran accepted it all go it's for adoption or love to be affected since it is exempt from the production. production got agreement mom international oil economist thank you for joining us on the program today thank you. the british home office has sparked outrage after insisting that nigerian women traffic to the u.k. to work as prostitutes and enjoy a wealthy life when they return to africa in the wake of the scandal the home office says it will now rew

bush if example you know you know iran has different needs iran has different needs to enrich uranium 3.6 or 7 to 5 percent the fuel is used in power plants to fuel ready power plant like bush air 20 percent almost 20 percent enriched uranium is needed for the tehran research reactor and other research reactors that iran has there isn't a bill and remind people i.s.o. iran is working on various types of. sorry remind us what this recession is a full on others and oh yeah poses i mean they're the research reactor yeah the research to react there in tehran produces radio is its ups for medicine all purposes for diagnosis and treatment of the same as the un for agriculture i mean research about aquaculture elso and medicine iran has you know all plans in order to build such reactors. that are for civil why would anyone in the army if he's just playing on the wire that inherent and want to rob them is that a stick if you like. well here is a point that iran is also working on nuclear propulsion systems and engines for ships they might need 3 percent to 60 percent enriched uranium now sinc

forced to go and read listen iran is iran is it meant for you to show up on a t.v. show so if i can in such a case that i mean it how it's going to how it's a lot of people would agree that you know it was relatively relatively calm voltages until you know the u.s. unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear deal and then there's the escalation just kind of went from bad to worse what would you say to that. absolutely untrue of the theory and regime is complicit and are guilty of the death of a half a 1000000 syrian civilians since 2012 they are being illegitimate regime in syria the shahrazad regime they're doing the same in yemen they've taken over they have wholesale taken over lebanon they are involved in the drug trade from latin america they are propping up they helping to prop up along with russia. nicolas maduro in venezuela they've been a destabilizing force in more and more aggressive ever since president trungpa started to push back and said we're not going to tolerate the a violation of this agreement and agreement that really was never worth the paper that i

sanctions on iran. i think the e.u. has been very patient and will continue to be very patient on this deal it's not only because if very much worries that there isn't going to be any broader deal like the united states talks about that will take the nuclear components into account and again stop iran from from enriching uranium so it thinks that this is really the best shot possible to stop iran from possibly getting a nuclear weapon it isn't going to give up fairly imposing sanctions of course would mean admitting that the deal is dead and despite being offered to do this many times the e.u. is not willing to declare this deal dead it wants iran to reverse course you want to iran to reverse course with that teri schultz in brussels thank you we will check in with you on another story in just a moment or let's take this story now into the u.s. capital i'm joined tonight by andrew miller he's with the project on middle east democracy that's a think tank and he worked at the u.s. state department has ser

sanctions on iran. i think the e.u. has been very patient and will continue to be very patient on this deal it's not only because it very much worries that there isn't going to be any broader deal like the united states talks about that will take the nuclear components into account and again stop iran from from enriching uranium so it thinks that this is really the best shot possible to stop iran from possibly getting a nuclear weapon it isn't going to give up early imposing sanctions of course would mean admitting that the deal is dead and despite being offered to do this many times the e.u. is not willing to declare this deal dead it wants iran to reverse course it wants iran to reverse course will it carry schultz in brussels thank you we will check in with you on another story in just a moment or let's take this story now into the u.s. capital i'm joined tonight by injury miller he's with the project on middle east democracy that's a think tank and you worked at the u.s. state department served on t

policy towards iran with u.s. policy towards north korea you've got 2 completely different pictures they are you've got north korea which has nuclear weapons being treated being legitimized by the u.s. president and iran the total opposite do you think iran is maybe thinking that it too can become the next north korea. well perhaps i mean north korea has shown that by testing a nuclear weapon it can exit a great deal more influence on the world stage and and try and circumvent the isolationism that it's experienced in recent decades but let's not forget the iranian case is dramatically different it's a signatory of the number of ration treaty but it also exists a great deal of influence across the region broadly and that's incredibly different to north korea so iran has numerous cards to play in this game and it's this regional influence that has been a serious cause for concern for many in washington but also for key u.s. allies in saudi arabia and israel so i think it's dramatically different but north korea has

and iran this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm in wrong on an iranian is that they center of a growing international dispute british marines boarded and detained the ship on thursday as it was sailing in gibraltar a british territory on spain's south coast the u.k. believes it was violating european union sanctions by carrying iranian oil to syria spain says it was the united states that ordered the vessel be stopped iran condemned what it called an illegal interception and summoned the british ambassador to tehran the u.s. and iran have been engaged in a war of words for months as washington precious tehran to renegotiate the 2015 nuclear deal. this action the rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of european union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria that refinery is the property of an

on the iran nuclear issue. we will continue to oppose iran's malign influence we will continue to bring pressure on their economy and under president donald trump america will never allow iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. our well joining me tonight is someone who knows the ins and outs of the iran nuclear deal ellie garonne miami advised european governments as the g.c. p.o. way was being negotiated she's a senior policy fellow with the european council on foreign relations and she joins me tonight from london aliens good to have you on the show the announcement by iran to abandon that that 1st limit on the enrichment of uranium tell me how significant is that. well the stats we've seen from iran so far have been very managed calculated escalations on the need care for up file 1st we had iran increasing beyond the stock casks under the queen meant by the same small margins as the international atomic energy agency verified a few days ago and this week the same international body has a need verify that iran has

and iran short of a deal, they're hoping european allies can increase trade with iran. that through a deal with the u.s., there are secondary sanctions that would punish europe for engaging in increased allowed by the sanctions. iran has a couple of different options. it can choose not to comply with the agreement and increase pressure and give the western allies an incentive to come to some agreement or iran could disrupt trade through the strait says thatand the u.s. is what iran has been doing, shooting down a global hawk surveillance drone, damaging, according to the u.s., it was iran who did this but damaging four commercial ships and then there were two tankers that caught fire. and withn agreement only sticks being offered at no carrots, we are at an impasse that could prove catastrophic event brings us closer to a military confrontation. anchor: thank you. accusediticians have border patrol agent syntaxes of mr. treating -- of mistreating immigrants. we have more from washington. >> the congressional hispanic caucus at another of -- a number of other politicians

and iran this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on iran come on an iranian old time is that they center of a growing international dispute british marines boarded and detained the ship on thursday as it was sailing in. a british territory on spain's south coast the u.k. believes it was violating european union sanctions by carrying iranian oil to syria spain says it was the united states that ordered the vessel be stopped iran condemned what it called an illegal interception and summoned the british ambassador to tehran the u.s. and iran have been engaged in a war of words for months as washington precious tehran to renegotiate the 2015 nuclear deal this action the rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of european union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria . that refinery is the property of an

iran's changing. pop music plays in the capital, tehran, clerics compete with pop stars for influence. most iranians were born after the 1979 revolution. the younger generation is more open to the world. it's these liberal iranians that donald trump believes he can win over, but instead, anti—american sentiment is unifying iran. translation: it's true that iran is pushing very hard with the issue of nuclear energy. perhaps we are pushing too hard, but if nuclear energy is bad for us, then it should be bad for everyone else as well. the us and iran needn't be enemies. the paint on this mural is fading. four years ago, with the nuclear deal, america and iran showed they could reach an agreement, but it was never built on trust. what happened here a0 years ago has poisoned relations ever since. iranian students stormed the us embassy, holding american diplomats hostage for more than a year. i was from the first day here. this is me. it was christmas. we wanted the american hostages... hussein sheikhole

warns iran of serious consequences after iran seized a british oil tanker and emergency committee meets in london with the government saying that the situation must be resolved quickly iran's revolutionary guard says the stand that imperio has been taken to a port on its territory also coming up germany commemorates the final and best known attempt to assassinate adult hitler we'll have a special report on how some of his inner circle conspired to kill him 75 years ago today and launched their own lives as a result. and the dutch supreme court finds the state partly to blame for the stripper needs a massacre the court rules that dutch troops failed in their duty to protect 350 muslim victims from bosnian serb forces just 8000 men and boys were murdered in the massacre of a quarter of a century ago. i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us. britain has advised u.k. ships to avoid the strait of hormuz for quote an interim period the warning comes after iran seized a british flag tanker on friday iran says its troops boarded the stand and pair o. after it collided with a fishi

blames tehran for recent talks on oil tankers in the gulf iran denies. that european powers meanwhile are focusing on saving the 2015 nuclear deal french president's top advisor is meeting with iranian officials urging tehran to stop pulling back from its commitments to that agreement president rouhani insists that its uranium enrichment is still within the framework of the deal all of this will be the focus of an emergency meeting of the international atomic energy agency in vienna later on wednesday we'll get more on the french envoys visit from our correspondent in tehran in just a few minutes 1st though john hendren has more on the planned military coalition. the united states is developing a military coalition to police the strait of hormuz general joseph dunford the highest ranking u.s. military official is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says the u.s. is working with a number of nations to identify who has in his words the political will to join in this coalition and offer military forces for that operation president donald trump says th

scaling back its commitment will take place in 60 days and that's likely to include iran iran enriching uranium at 20 percent levels all this comes as the international community has condemned their once decision to reduce its cooperation with the nuclear deal for now the next 60 days being seen as the attempt by the rouhani government to allow the europeans to uphold their ends of the deal but the iranians have said that they will not stay in the steel at any cost it is up to the e.u. signatories to try and show that they are committed to this deal by up holding their end of the bargain. door such a party for inside story well now let's hear what iran's foreign ministry spokesman of us mousavi had to say. tomorrow we have no hope nor trusting anyone or any country but the door of diplomacy is open borders if the remaining countries in the deal especially the europeans do not fulfill their commitments seriously and do not do anything more than talk to iran's 3rd step will be harder more steadfast and stunning this on the now european parties to the 25th india have condemned iran's decis

simon iran's actions will no doubt be seen as provoking the u.s. and its allies is your real danger that the u.s. or others will retaliate thereby prompting a major escalation of some kind i think that's certainly a concern that amidst all of these growing tensions that some point that will be a retaliation and that retaliation will kick this crisis on to the next level but what we've seen so far is from the from the united states and u.k. calls for a responsible. way of addressing this crisis and i guess that's the big concern that the stakes are so high right now that the seizure of my all time when crude folks people in washington and london going to take some kind of military action and that would be the real catalyst for things to get incredibly worse and go. well you know as well as i do this isn't the 1st time that iran has seized an oil tanker in the strait of hormuz what kind of impact with these repeated seizures have on global oil supplies. well i think there's a political dimension to it and this is just mentioned the political dimensio

iran's violations of the era of the iran nuclear deal of the j.c.b. away although iran has broken what 2 times and says that it will do it again in 60 days how much longer do you think europe will be able to look the other way so today also striking that used foreign policy chief said that those steps were in significant that they were all reversible and what i hear from analysts is that they're all trying to get over the finish line to get to the u.n. general assembly in september when everybody can sit face to face and. perhaps find a way around this you know anything can happen that's the problem with this conflict is there are so many places that can get out of control and these these little acts of provocation by tehran they are little acts aren't they they're not meant to spiral out of control but they're meant to i mean maybe you maybe see this differently they're meant to make sure that europe's attention is not diverted that's exactly what it's all about this is high stakes diplomacy all of the acts are reversible or deniable the problem is t

on the iran nuclear issue. we will continue to oppose a rans malign influence we will continue to bring pressure on their economy and under president donald trump america will never allow iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. are well joining me tonight is someone who knows the ins and outs of the iran nuclear deal ellie garonne my a advised european governments as the james c.p.o. way was being negotiated she's a senior policy fellow with the european council on foreign relations and she joins me tonight from london aliens good to have you on the show the announcement by iran to abandon that that 1st limit on the enrichment of uranium tell me how significant is that. well the stats i have seen from iran so far have been very managed calculated escalations on the need care for up file 1st we had iran increasing beyond the stock casks under the queen and by face margins as the international atomic energy agency verified a few days ago and this week that the same international body has indeed verified that iran has go

between iran and the united states what do you think the i.a.e.a. central message will be to the iranian authorities later today. possibly quite a mixed one to be honest with you this is a meeting called by the united states of the full complement of the 35 board of governors of the i.a.e.a. the atomic energy agency of the un tasked with verifying iran's compliance under the deal and remember at no stage did the i.a.e.a. indicate any form of noncompliance by iran before the united states unilaterally withdrew from the deal last year now the us i'm sure would like nothing more than for the i.a.e.a. with one voice to declare iran in full breach of the deal now the us ambassador jackie walcott in a statement calling for this meeting called on the international community to hold iran's regime accountable but diplomats are briefing that it is unclear what this meeting can hope to achieve on the one hand you've got the european powers signatory to the j c p o 8 britain france and germany he 3 they're known as along with the e.u. who are clearly not ready

it goes to show you, i was right about iran. >> the president was right about iran. what happens next is important for a number of runs. one, the straits of hormuz is the single most important artery for the world's oil supply and the most narrow point, the strait is only 21 miles wide with shipping lanes of two miles in either direction. that is how precise you have to be. it is bordered to the north by iran and on the south by the uae in oman. that skinny piece there. that connects all of the oil-rich gulf states to the indian ocean. because of the president's pro energy policies as he mentioned today, we are now less reliant on middle eastern oil than at any time in modern history. let me add this. this has been the straits of hormuz, the most strategically important venue for the free-flow of oil at market prices. of course, oil represents the life blood of every economy. since donald trump has been president for the first time in 75 years, america is energy independent. we're now officially a net exporter of energy. it is less strategically important those strai

tensions between iran and the west our brains and another notch iran detains a british oil town for 2 weeks out in the u.k. seized one of its ships while tehran and london find compromise but what is a situation going to spiral out of control this is inside. now and welcome to the program and fully back when the u.k. sees an iranian oil tanker 2 weeks ago tehran warned of retaliation when it appears iran has carried out that threat iranian revolutionary guards detained a british vessel in the strait of hormuz on friday it was sailing towards a saudi port when it suddenly changed course a powerful council that works closely with iran's supreme leader says a seizure is in response to the you came pounding any raney and tanka tehran earlier said the step in and para was involved in an accident with any rainy and fishing boat. before we were informed that a british flag the oil tank it collided with a fishing boat which tried to contact the tanker and find out how the accident happened but unfortunately the british tanker didn't respond and changed his direction changing direction in that

iran saying it was causing problems. iran saying it was in their territorial waters, wasn't following a maritime regulations. you have to treat that with a pinch of salt because we know full well iran has said it was he's a british tanker in retaliation for what happened off the coast of gibraltar earlier this month, when ina radiant gibraltar earlier this month, when in a radiant tanker was seized involving royal marines, and is still being held their —— in a tanker. the extension, holding this tanker. the extension, holding this tanker gibraltarfor 30 more tanker. the extension, holding this tanker gibraltar for 30 more days. it is not that surprising, is it? tanker gibraltar for 30 more days. it is not that surprising, is mm is not just about that tanker being seized on gibraltar. even before, tensions were rising with the uk and iran and the us in iran, the sanctions being imposed, donald trump being convinced they were enriching uranium. that was a dispute doing iran and the us. written has been, with the rest o

and iran are open to see. some sort of resolution to this issue israel on the other hand has had some pretty inflammatory words iran is violated its solemn promise under the un security council not to enrich uranium beyond a certain level the enrichment of uranium is meant for one reason and one reason only it's for the creation of atomic bombs. the leaders of the p 5 plus one promised and committed themselves to snap back sanctions the minute iran did it just did where you are and who is staying out of the negotiations well that's the u.s. of course with washington still withdrawn iran's latest expansion of its nuclear program will lead to further isolation and sanctions nations should restore the longstanding standard of no enrichment for iran's nuclear program iran's regime armed with nuclear weapons would pose an even greater danger to the world was pretty amazing when you pull out of the deal when you break a deal and you accuse the side that remains in the deal of breaking the deal it was the west to bro

and what iran is capable of doing. he's taken a very hard line of course playing out of the nuclear —— pulling out of the nuclear agreement and being really at odds with his european allies and going it alone in terms of the hardline. those increased sanctions against iran. president trump may well feel as if his action has been the correct course of action when dealing with a nation like iran. peter bowes, our north american correspondent there. we correspondent there. will have more on those developments we will have more on those developments between iran, the uk and the us in a few minutes. let's get some of the day's other news. the prime minister of kosovo has resigned after an eu—backed war crimes court summoned him for questioning as a suspect. ramush haradinaj led the kosovo liberation army during the war for independence from serbia twenty years ago. he's been tried and acquitted twice by a separate, united nations war crimes tribunal at the hague. at least two people have been killed and 18 wounded aft

iran's violations of the era of the iran nuclear deal of the j.c.b. away although iran has broken what 2 times and says that it will do it again in 60 days how much longer do you think europe will be able to look the other way so today also striking that the e.u. foreign policy chief said that those steps were insignificant that they were all reversible and what i hear from analysts is that they're all trying to get over the finish line to get to the u.n. general assembly and so. temper when everybody can sit face to face and perhaps find a way around this you know anything can happen that's the problem with this conflict is there are so many places that can get out of control and these these little acts of provocation by tehran they are little acts aren't they they're not meant to spiral out of control but they're meant to maybe you maybe see this differently they're meant to make sure that europe's attention is not diverted that's exactly what it's all about this is high stakes diplomacy all of the acts are reversible or deniable the problem is that

denial will likely come as something that most world leaders critics of iran are likely to reject iran's president has said that the seizure of iran's. oil tanker by. by the u.k. royal marines in gibraltar he considers that piracy a violation of international maritime law iran has said that it does not recognize you sanctions on syria but that the vessel was not headed to a port in syria and so really these tensions over or the sale of oil the economic sanctions on the united states that the u.s. is now trying to get the u.k. in on in terms of insourcing it seems it is the the economic sanctions are now beginning to play out on the open seas and we've just heard a report from the islamic revolutionary guard corps saying that the enemy will regret to detaining our oil tanker and rest of prickle actions will be announced zain thank you very much for that as a follow on or the latest developments from thank you. now donald trump as well and that he'll soon encrease sanctions on iran substantially he's accused of secretly and retching uranium 3 is iran has defended itself against the accusat

route off the coast of iran john hendren has that from washington. the united states is developing a military coalition to police the strait of hormuz general joseph dunford the highest ranking u.s. military official is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says the u.s. is working with a number of nations to identify who has in his words the political will to join in this coalition and offer military forces for that operation president donald trump says the united states should not pay for this that it should be an international military force but that does present the potential for conflict with iran after all it was only weeks ago when the united states almost launched an air strike on iran that's according to president trump who says we were within 10 minutes of a conflict in that region meanwhile brian hook the u.s. special representative for iran policy spoke to al jazeera this is what he had to say about sanctions we have taken iran to new lows in revenue and they're feeling it and they're hurting and their proxies are hurting and we want

the next phase of iran's plan to roll back cooperation with the 2015 nuclear deal now iran has said over and over again that it will not go forward with its plan to do so if other signatories to the deal or able to help provide the economic relief that was promised as part of the deal help mitigate u.s. sanctions or as the united states returns to the deal and lift economic sanctions that many iranian leaders have called economic warfare economic terrorism now with less than 24 hours to go before that deadline expires it seems that nothing has changed and so stopping the rollback of cooperation with the 2050 nuclear deal seems very unlikely we're not expecting any surprises tomorrow senior iranian leaders including president hassan rouhani himself have said that one of the things they will do is begin enriching uranium at higher purity levels under the agreement of the j c p a way article state that iran can enrich uranium up to 3.67 percent in purity many leaders who here have said that they will turn that number into 5 percent president hassan rouhani in a speech just a few days a

iran's done with dialogue at least it seems when it comes to washington. the useless sanctions imposed by the disparate us government on iran's supreme leader and foreign minister has the effect of blocking the path to diplomacy for years iran has attempted to rebuild relations with the u.s. without any tangible results in 1988 u.s. military shut down iranian passenger plane that killed 290 civilians including 66 children and although the incident was considered an accident the pentagon never apologize if. i believe that given the operating environment captain rogers acted reasonably and did what his nation expected of him this regrettable accident and it was an accident it was a byproduct of the iran iraq war and saddened all american and if past presidents are anything to go by to rand shouldn't hold its breath i'll never apologize for the united states of america ever i don't care what the facts are still ready to reconcile iran helped organize the release of u.s. hostages in lebanon but this goodwill gesture wasn't reciprocated by 995 even harsher u.s.

and iran. well look i mean the the foreign office here in london is up to the nothing to say today further than what is said the last couple of days which which is to point to intelligence that the governments of gibraltar said it received an iranian tanker was carrying it was smuggling oil it thought destined for syria in breach of european sanctions and consequently it was seized and the governments of gibraltar is in now has conclusive proof that the oil had come from iran and the investigation's ongoing as to where it was supposed to go and that's that's where the position that that the thing that really strikes me is most significant really is about the timing because the seizing of the vessel came almost immediately after the american iran envoy came to london met the international maritime organization and then came back from that and told me and other reporters that the americans had intelligence that iranian vessels were going dark as he put it turning their truckers off and trying to

and there are other powers papering iran that are defending iran's interests which made iraq iran's back door a.t.m. so to speak to mitigate sanctions iraq's economy is largely unorganized a lack of official statistics and throw more training makes it impossible to accurately picture what happens at the border with iran which stretches 1400 kilometers france germany and the u.k. introduced a mechanism called in sticks to facilitate trade in exchange of basic goods including food medical equipment and medicine between iranian and foreign companies iraq's case is different because in addition to household items baghdad relies heavily on iranian gas imported electricity. iraq also needs iran iraq situation isn't completely settled this extends to iraq's economy industry and agriculture besides iranian investment and other foreign investment is low although iraqi officials deny that baghdad is becoming iran's a.t.m. or cash machine the fear is that any restriction on tree could affect iraq's fragile stability and some of the job it out of there a fact that pirates are a danger all along the

and iran this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on iran cone an iranian old friend is that the center of a growing international dispute british marines boarded and detained the ship. as it was sailing in. a british territory on spain's south coast the u.k. believes it was violating european union sanctions by carrying iranian oil to syria spain says it was the united states that ordered the vessel be stopped iran condemned what it called an illegal interception and summoned the british ambassador to tehran the u.s. and iran have been engaged in a war of words for months as washington precious tehran to renegotiate the 2015 nuclear deal this action the rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of european union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria that refinery is the property of an entity that is

finds itself in a difficult position with iran like the e.u. it wants to keep tensions low and save the iranian nuclear deal the j c p o 8 but it also wants to keep its close alliance with the u.s. which has walked away from the deal and has hit iran with tough economic sanctions the u.s. department of defense believes the british tank incident reinforces its argument for an international naval task force in the gulf to protect commercial shipping threats to international freedom of navigation require an international solution says a statement from u.s. central command tensions in one of the world's most important shipping channels have risen again chalons al-jazeera london. and the u.s. 5th fleet has said is working closely with the british royal navy to defend the faith of commerce and freedom of navigation through the region al-jazeera has been monitoring reaction in the iranian capital. diplomatic relations between iran and the united kingdom have been suffering for many months now and the events of the last 24 hours will not help that situ