all the for telling their god is iran expert as the brookings institution in doha he believes iran seems to have overplayed its thus far well calculated strategy of task. and rick no act as a correspondent for the washington post here in berlin he says trump's so far hasn't been response may both reflect concerns over a military conflict ahead of the presidential elections 2020 and the lack of a consistent strategy in iraq. thanks so much to all of you as well for being here today suzanne if we could start with you you're just back from iran are from saudi arabia rather are people in that country worried about an attack by iran by a war in the region they are definitely i mean there is a war going on in the country in the south in yemen since 4 years and 6 months. they don't see so much of this war but this is definitely a repeat the question which goes straight directly to the heart of the of the country they see that there is destabilization in syria in iraq and so they really fear that this could come to that this could strike the country and destabilize the country. ali what about ir

germany france and britain have also blamed iran for carrying out the attacks iran denies design again the country's president hassan rouhani is expected to meet with german chancellor angela merkel later this evening. joining me now is the. alexander from naaman she is at the united nations and joins me now from there alexander the u.s. president donald trump is due to speak there shortly what can we expect from him. so for me it's the 3rd time that i'm covering his address to the united nations and therefore i would expect him to focus once again on his america 1st poll the sea as he did last year and the year before he will probably talk about the importance of taking care of for the american people 1st before solving the world's problems he will probably talk about other nations who used to take advantage of the united states and that he. was president has been trying to change it we just got a few excerpts brought the white house. and indeed to data and evidence that he might be focusing on his america 1st policy so he is expected to say that i quote if you want freedom take pride

all the fertility shot is iran expert at the brookings institution in doha he believes iran seems to have overplayed its thus far well calculated strategy of escalation and rick no act as a correspondent for the washington post here in berlin he says trump's so far hasn't in response may both reflect concerns over a military conflict ahead of the presidential elections 2020 and the lack of a consistent strategy in iraq. thanks so much to all of you as well for being here today suzanne if we could start with you you're just back from moran are are from saudi arabia rather are people in that country worried about an attack by iran by a war in the region they are definitely i mean there is a war going on in the country in the south in yemen since 4 years and 6 months. they don't see so much of this war but this is definitely a repeat question which goes straight directly to the heart of the of the country they see that there is the stabilization in syria in iraq all around so they really fear that this could come to that this could strike the country destabilize the country. what about

-iran relations. in this binational relationship, as with most, history is a matter of perspective how one defines it. to some, we need to understand why thomas jefferson had books about cyrus the great in his library. to others, we might need to study the arrival of american in thearies in iran 1830's and the work they continued through the mid 20th century. some would contend this early history was displaced by the official u.s. presence in iran, which arguably began during the second world war and came in the form of tens of thousands of troops. others would point to dates like 1953, when an anglo american crew -- anglo american cu overthrew a democratically elected government in iran at the height of the cold war. others are interested in the contemporary pass that began in 1979. it was in that year that the near 40 year rule of the u.s. ally, the shock, came to an end. it was replaced with the islamic republic of iran, which marked its 40th anniversary of the revolution in february. so we had the

-iran relations, iran is often less concerned with what the u.s. is saying or doing than what its immediate neighbors are doing. in the 1990's, western intelligence, global intelligence was convinced saddam hussein was pursuing weapons of mass destruction. you all know about that. it led up to the 2003 war. it wasn't just the u.s. that was concerned. who would be more concerned about that than iraq's neighbor? the neighbor who just fought a devastating eight-year war with saddam hussein. no one was more concerned about saddam's ambitions when it came to wmd's than iran. iran had a moral conflict in the 1990's to continue to maintain the islamic -- stricter against research and development of a nuclear program, or do we say, we are not going to build a bomb but get as close as they can? build the technology that might make saddam hussein think twice before developing a nuclear weapon or unleashing it. that was the calculation they made. iran's nuclear program in the 1990's was brought out of the mothballs and reinvigorated. it was largely rudimentar

iran blood lust. it's also a war of words between donald trump and iran's president rouhani any model the enemy has chosen a prophet he calls economic war but is in fact an act of economic terrorism against the nation and that's our rouhani responded it's a military parade in toronto but the threat of a real and devastating war is still imminent in both sides will the persian gulf erupt. into. the reagan president right is america engage in economic terrorism against iran well this is what his foreign minister was also a calling economic sanctions against iran by the united states and i think i mean it's part of the iranian p.r. to you know counter that kind of move by the u.s. by using such harsh language on the other hand of course there is a whole discussion about economic sanctions and their impact on the civilian populations and their role of course human rights issues that are of concern. it's the imposing country house to you know be big to take care off but also when it comes to economic sanct

and iran but at the same time she said she didn't think it would be realistic for iran to expect sanctions to believed it before such a meeting takes place but i would say the key goal behind those conversations i'm going to medical held in new york is to try to have some sort of diplomatic initiative that germany could work on not on its own or maybe with france for example to try and make sure these 2 players do come to the table and try and find some sort of compromise but that again is easier said than done and we've had very different views on what outcome could be achieved from a german perspective it is absolutely clear they want a diplomatic solution to all of this but she's nanjing expectations that the same time as other want to go to you in new york obviously the european leaders are keen to get some form of diplomatic resolution to the rising tensions but at the same time european. rader's lectures on the american like french president michael have condemned trump's hardline approach to iran but have also signed it with president trump by accusing iran of being behind the attac

iran has been sunday well militias in ok. let's stay there let's stay in syria stay and let's stay with the facts ok you're a government in the u.s. government have a very high probability there is position but the fact of the matter is that your country has destroyed one of the poorest countries in the world that is a fact and you have not won militarily let me go over to nicholas in miami how do you respond so far to what we've heard in the program nicholas in miami. well i i would i would respond to oc. by i really though that we should all remember how this war began. president hadi was only installed as president of yemen for a 2 year term for the purpose of writing a new constitution and holding new elections the who sees invaded and placed him under house arrest demanding that he do his job they did not deploy as him as president. and it was only after he fled to aden and then to riyadh and. you know i'm not sure whether it was his idea or prison probably the saudis idea to suggest to him. that he should. adopt some so

and saudi arabia have blamed iran. with a senior military adviser to iran's supreme leader has defended that attack on saudi oil facilities. with the retailer turi operation yemenis and thanked carried out a legitimate defense of bin selves against a priss that killed their children the reality is that america and its allies in aggressors against palestine in yemen have become tired and worn out economically militarily and politically the policies were wrong and failed the repudiation of america and its allies is declining. the rhetorical war between tehran and washington continued the iranian foreign minister tweeting in response to accusations of war mongering by the us actually say it might prompt he said miss upon has it the other way around it's not iran that wishes to fight to the last american rather it is his b. team hosts who seem to wish to fight iran to the last american there he was referring to the b. team is being saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound man and he reiterated that iran has no desire for war

iran more. well iran's banking sector or the industry are already going to under sanctions and the economy has been struggling but the thought that the central bank and the foreign minister has said that this these sanctions aren't anything new they're just part of the u.s. has just put a new face on them in fact the foreign ministry has said that iran has all this found its way forward and has been able to develop an even expand its sovereignty they called economic terrorism and said that the us are struggling to find ways to deal with differences that they have with other countries so these sanctions are not anything new they may not have a big practice practical step but they are a warning to other countries that do deal with iran and have trade with iran because the united states could impose financial penalties against them but also it's a hindrance to the french european led. french european led negotiations at the general united nations general assembly and they're trying to escalate tens

-iran relations. today we have a range of methodologies that can help us better understand the past. despite methodological differences, so-called traditional diplomatic and military historians regularly work alongside scholars. in this rich interpretive landscape, the annals of history continue to unfold through declassification of documents or through reinterpretation of old documents through lenses of race, culture, gender and emotion to name just a few. in addition to these historical subfields, other disciplines help drive the conversation. if one comes from the iranian studies or middle east studies background, these are inherently interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. one could borrow from other disciplines besides history, political science helping to move the conversation forward. that brings me to the introduction. we have two speakers today. one is a professor in the department of political silence at tulane university. -- political science at tulane university. i will not read his bio to you

that iran was behind the attack on these saudi aramco facilities last week iran has said that that simply isn't the case they completely denied any responsibility and in the last 24 hours both iran's foreign minister zarif and iran's president hassan rouhani have said that the reason the united states and saudi arabia and the saudi led coalition members like you a year are willfully pushing this narrative that iran was behind it is because it is an embarrassment that a country and countries that have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the latest technology much of it from the west much of it from the united states were able to detect and prevent or thwart an attack by yemeni hooty fighters that were arguably using much less sophisticated weaponry and that is a source of embarrassment so what they're trying to push is a narrative that iran is attacking global oil infrastructure and not the narrative that the richest arab nation in the region the richest gulf arab nation has for years launched a war on the poorest gulf arab nation and that poor gulf arab nation yemen who defied those

so iran iran the leaders and her on are ultimately responsible for this attack if one of those 2 instances explained to us and i think it's important just as zoom out for a minute and and understand what is going on here what is going on here is a iran is lashing out either directly or via its proxies in order to avoid coming to the negotiating table and they are responding with violence when or why they would widely be considered acts of war and against the international and global energy markets but in the question for the u.s. for our allies in europe is how are we going to respond are we ok with us which is take a listen to what u.s. president trump said today he was asked about needing more information about how these attacks happened take a listen. i think my thinking pretty much remains the same and. we haven't learned much that we didn't know but but there is there is a certain. i guarantee fact here we're really at a point now where we know very much what happened so a guarantee factor we know what what happened and then today the president asked for more sanctions against iran is

congress today have argued this that if iran is responsible then iran has been provoked by the us withdrawing from the nuclear agreement. well that would be quite an interesting argument to argue that sanctions warrant what most people would consider an act of war in which missiles a lot are launched across borders and there are explosions taking place. the goal of the us max pressure campaign regardless of whether one agrees with the decision to withdraw from the iranian nuclear agreement is to bring to iran to the negotiating table it's amazing the lengths that iran is willing to go to avoid negotiating the evidence that was presented today by saudi arabia you as a military man and also as a military analyst would you say that that was a convincing case presented by saudi arabia that leaves without question that iran is responsible. it's a good question i've learned not to make definitive statements unless i'm on the ground able to look at things myself but if the equipment that was presented on video camera there wasn't back from those attacks which it appears to be it should be very easy

they will make a mess but iran. they will gather a lot of people behind this this issue against iran how. do you think this is actually true because you know there is a lot of speculation within the international community and you know not many seem to be in favor of any potential military action. yes of course i mean again war against iran it cannot be. limited cannot be chipped limited that is to say it will expand inside and beyond iraq very quickly and i think if and when it can but to ever. a military attack on iran it will be done maximum force are certain that these americans are not going to attack iran by some the hitting here and there leading make their public a bit the capability to retaliate that is completely out of question so the americans will have to decide whether to i calculate our food and complete and destroy the country into 48 hours or stay put and use sanctions as in the past to kill this damage to the public and they said so again that's a decision that is going to be very hard to be made i

our job is to isolate iran. iran is the bad actor. what president needs to do is get international coalition to continue to work gains iran's support of terrorism. challenge. we're having difficulty with our european allies to get type of support we need, but we have to isolate iran. john: there are reports from houthis to saudi arabia and to united states, i don't know if you saw my question to secretary of state, that iran is planning another attack in saudi arabia. if iran were in the middle of this, launch another attack at saudi arabia, would that demand a military response? >> there is not a military solution to the problem of iran. we need to make diplomacy work. clearly there could be a miscalculation, we is to defend ourselves, butt buty. >> if would be disastrous if we got into a fight war in iran. it would have consequences throughout the region, not in our national security interest. john: we have u.s. ramping up sanctions to iran, withdrawing from the jcpoa, which you yourself did not vote for. iran is countering shooting

nuclear deal that the united states left last year the iran nuclear deal failed to cover iran's missile program in fact it relaxed constraints on iran's missile program and now here today we see the consequences in the middle east with iran using missiles to attack saudi arabia so we think this was a very productive and good week with our european friends they all said that iran is behind the attack on saudi arabia so i think the press has overstated our differences and i think the announcement this week is an example of that however as you said to tensions have been rising recently so i we getting closer to a major conflict i don't think so that really is a question for iran we are committed to resolving our differences with iran diplomatically the problem is that iran is answering our diplomacy with military force and i think what they did against saudi arabia meets the definition of an act of war so it's what i saw this week at the u.n. our nations increasingly diplomatically isolating iran for behaving like an outlaw state that doesn't respect basic international norms. france and g

and iran have come from the negotiating table but the reality is iran's position is nothing new the promise of a kind of mutually assured destruction of american assets and allies in the region has been standing policy for years and iranian experts say is keeping iran's enemies at bay what is new is how frequent and assertive the message from iranian leaders has become a signal perhaps that there is real concern into iran that some kind of u.s. aggression may now be closer than ever. on a visit to saudi arabia the u.s. secretary of state described the oil facility attacks as an act of war and promised more economic sanctions on iran and there will be more sanctions. we we have set about a course of action to deny iran the capacity and the wealth so that they can conduct their terror said to provoke to prevent them from conducting their terror campaigns and you can see from the events of last week there's still more work to do we're going to continue to drive towards that end. you cannot fail to see the failed policy of giving money to this regime but what happened inside a rabia those oppos

following attacks on saudi oil plants last week also blamed on iran without definitive proof iran's leaders will be concerned about the u.s. plan gaining more support. not all of them are those who want to link the region's incidents but the islamic republic of iran a line just like the past laws which have been revealed if the truthful and really sick security in the region they must not see him with pins 5 digits bombs and dangerous to the region. this week events in cities across the country will mark the beginning of iran's 8 year war with iraq in 1980 gulf arab states supported venner rocky president saddam hussein something rouhani reminded iranians of in his speech but he also said that all can be forgiven if there is unity among islamic countries that the united states is only interested in dividing the region and pillaging resources and that the security of the region lasting security is only up to the people indigenous to the area same bus ravi al-jazeera to iran. we can now return to our top story and that's the un slate's us warning on climate change and the effects of global wa

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and i hate to say this but donald trump to his credit has opened the door to a dialogue with iran unfortunately the authoritarian leaders in tehran have no interest in pursuing dialogue so i think this this is i think the sticking point that needs to be resolved if we want to get away from a disastrous war that we're on the precipice of franco would a u.n. inquiry satisfy this u.s. and ministration. i would be all in favor of that i can't imagine the administration wouldn't as well but there's only one problem with that. and principle that sounds nice theoretic through the theory theoretical point of view the point is this i think iran as it is in the past would just reject it so what this is at the at the end of the the at the end of the day un so therefore i don't know how long that inquiry would take it would be contested there's no question the results of it that's not somebody that everybody would they would automatically. be in the un a body that anyone would necessarily respect and what would be the remedy afterwards i say after this long it would take a while there's a long inquiry iran

congress today have argued this that if iran is responsible then iran has been provoked by the us withdrawing from the nuclear agreement. well that would be quite an interesting argument to argue that sanctions warrant what most people consider an act of war in which missiles a lot are launched across borders and there are explosions taking place. the goal of the u.s. pressure campaign regardless of whether one agrees with the decision to withdraw from the running nucular agreement is to bring to iran to the negotiating table it's amazing the lengths that iran is willing to go to avoid negotiating the the evidence that was presented today by saudi arabia you as a military man and also as a military analyst would you say that that was a convincing case presented by saudi arabia that leaves without question that iran is responsible. it's a good question i've learned not to make definitive statements unless i'm on the ground able to look at things myself but if the equipment that was presented on video camera there wasn't back from those attacks which it appears to be it should be very easy or r

i am working with iran and hezbollah works with iran, so i'm not going after them. pompeo was great. talking with terrorists does not do it. you have to get down and do something. why not make sure that that senator, a killer, is not going to be the next leader in that wonderful country of argentina? asst. sec. billingslea: thanks for that question, ambassador. the first question you had, are we doing enough? in fighting terrorism, you can never do enough. there is always more that must be done. i was with secretary pompeo at that commemoration ceremony. it was at a series of meetings he had with counterparts from across the region that president macri issued a presidential decree, which does a lot more than just call hezbollah a terrorist group. it allows them to block financial support to hezbollah operatives. specifically the bombing individual -- i'm not even going to call them suspects, because they are clearly involved, they have been working with us on additional targets. paraguay, were you ably read our diplomatic representation in the past, has now followed

was iran behind the saudi oil attacks? and is the u.s. and iran headed toward a major conflict? i also asked the president moments ago, is he willing to sit down with president trump? president rouhani, we heard you speak here at the u.n. today, and you said that iran will not negotiate a knonuclear deal as g as iran remains under sanctions. we know that the u.s. has doubled down and just today the trump administration announced new sanctions on the chinese doing business to iran. what is your reaction to president trump? >> translator: well, the americans must think in theast one and a half p years in which they have put up extreme sanctions against iran, what they have accomplished? what they are doing against iran is to the detriment of america and to the detriment of countries that seek to enter into economic active tips with iran. in addition to the fact that the type of sanctions that were executed by the united states against the people of iran is an economic form of terrorism. particularly because women, children, the ill, those in need of medication, are most severely h

and iran alone. we should note he did not provide any evidence for the claim, and iran denied any involvement. a top official tells cnn, its's difficult to believe that iran did not play a role. the official says they could not have pulled it off with just ten

sanctions on iran. israel's 2nd election this year has again failed to produce a clear winner leaving a question mark over who will be prime minister weeks of coalition talks and now likely with all the 90 percent of votes counted the center left blue and white party led by benny gantz has 32 seats or benjamin netanyahu is likud party is just behind on 31. at least 27 people most of them children have been killed in a fire at a school in liberia. the blaze started around midnight and tore through a dormitory where students were sleeping before he said electrical problem was to blame but investigations are continuing. the army in the democratic republic of congo says its soldiers have killed a rebel leader from rwanda silvester would have kooris hutu rebel group is accused of killing hundreds of civilians during conflicts in 20092010 he'd been wanted by the international criminal court since 2012 for war crimes i'll be back with a full news hour right after the 2nd half of witness. yeah boudicca. commit

handiwork iran's forceful denials in rebuke of u.s. and saudi accusations is likely to dominate the conversation well into next week that's when the expecting iranian president hassan rouhani who was also just granted a visa it seems to speak at the u.n. in new york. are let's go live to terror on now and another of our correspondents there beg and said as foreign minister zarif and in fact president rouhani head now for new york in the general assembly and how would you would you characterize the mood of the iranian people. world major general hussein salaam has been speaking this morning he's the head of the revolutionary guard he was speaking at an exhibition that was showing off a u.s. drone that was shot down in june now what he has said is the same there are a trip to what you've heard from the iranians before essentially he said that the enemies of iran should be careful not to miscalculate and that iran is ready to respond to any sort of invasion and they will carry on until the invaders are destroyed but what he also said is i

from the iran nuclear deal a pact which promised to ease sanctions on iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program trumped and impose fresh sanctions on iran then this year iran announced that it had boosted its stockpiles of enriched uranium and that's off the components used to make nuclear weapons then in the past few months the u.s. has blamed iran for a wave of attacks on oil tankers in the strait of hormuz a key shipping route in the gulf region though of course iran denies those allegations and then the u.s. is also blaming iran for 2 attacks on to oil facilities in saudi arabia iran has also denied those claims now france britain and germany have joined the united states in leveling those accusations against their run they are calling for iran to enter a new talks aimed at both soaring the nuclear deal a french president is pushing for trying to meet iranian president hassan rouhani trump says he will not rule out anything now for his spot iran's president hassan rouhani wants other leaders to stop interfering in iran's affairs and the middle east region this is what hasan

iran's peace plan comes at a critical time. pushing a message of peace and hope in her moves at the u.n. general assembly in new york rouhani will be trying to sink the latest american backed international coalition being formed in the middle east this time to patrol international shipping lanes in the gulf the u.s. floated the idea of a maritime coalition after attacks on oil tankers earlier this year america and gulf allies blamed iran for the explosions investigators said they found no conclusive evidence to say who carried out the attacks countries that have joined the maritime patrol mission so far britain bahrain saudi arabia more recently australia and the united arab emirates following attacks on saudi oil plants last week also blamed on iran without definitive proof iran's leaders will be concerned about the u.s. plan gaining more support. not all him are those who want to link the region's incidents but the islamic republic of iran just like the apostles which have been revealed if the truthful and really sick securit

the best today that's why they came to yemen they didn't come to fight iran iran is in the united arab emirates that are flights going from there so they should focus on iran i live yemen simon saudi arabia is broke down in this conflict in yemen which has turned out to be a total embarrassment do you think that of this particular states are they going to be engaged in any confrontation with the iranians or they are just in one position where they have to sort of swallow their pride. i think that this saudi iranian rivalry is long and it's complex and it transcends the yemen conflict and i think we must we must put it into context here we must say that this rivalry well it has taken on and it de tional meaning after the revolution of 1979 it has its roots far earlier than that and it's about a struggle for regional supremacy it's a struggle for regional order and we see that continuing to play out albeit with the sort of the finale error of religion in the years after the 1979 and that's where we can see it playing out in yemen of course as a struggle to to exert its influence and to p

if you stand on your word that you only have one demand for iran, i.e. nonproduction and non-utilization of nuclear weapons, then it could easily be obtained with the iaea provision and more importantly the fatwa of the iranian leader. instead, of a show of negotiations, you shall return to the reality of negotiations. memorial photos are the last station of negotiations, not the first one. ladies and gentlemen, we in iran, despite all of the obstructions created by the u.s. government, are keeping on the path of economic and social growth and prosperity. iran's economy in 2017 registered the highest economic growth rate in the world. and today despite fluctuations emanating from foreign interference in the past one and a half years, we have returned to the track of growth and stability. iran's gross domestic product minus oil has become positive and the trade balance remains positive. distinguished participants, the security doctrine of the islamic republic of iran is based on the maintenance of peace and stability in the persian gulf and providing free

may be iran. but their credibility is shot when they come out with the statement before they do the prudent analysis. >> kind of in light of how serious this is, the debate of should president trump meet with president rowhani on the sidelines of the u.n. meetings here. it's kind of a -- i don't know if we call it a game of chicken. meet with you, preconditions, no preconditions. what is your view on this? >> i think a lot of bravado of both sides about setting the conditions for a conversation. the president said that. this pressure campaign is meant to give us some -- an upper hand in some future negotiation. i think it's a risky gamble because you could have real miscalculation and minneapolis understanding that leads to conflict. but i think that's what he's been doing. listen. it is always better when we talk ab if it's not the president, that's a big step, what about folks at the pentagon? what about the secretary of state? there's lots of other communication that could be going on that went

on iran. this attack on iran. it seems iran's behavior is getting worse, not better, based on the trump administration's campaign. you've been very aggressive with these sanctions. why do you think sanctioning them leads to better behavior? >> margaret, you start the clock at the wrong point. 1970 -- >> brennan: i'm talking about what happened this summer. >> 1979 is the trajectory of the iranian revolution. 40 years of terror. the previous administration chose to arm them to, provide the wealth and resources that have underwritten these very attacks that we're seeing today. they were able to build up these missile systems. b so you thinke trump administration policy is working is what you're saying despite the fact these attacks are continuing to happen, because with cheney, lindsey graham, republican allies of the president said the failure to carry out some kind of obvious retaliation or military strike looks like weakness. >> we respond nod a number of ways. this is not about weakness. the strategy is working.

the iran deal is even worse. it is designed to end up with iran getting nuclear weapons. north korea is a profoundly dangerous place. there is an unstable dictator with the ability to murder millions. but kim jong-un, at least we know he is a narcissist. we know he desperately wants to stay in power. what is truly -- which means maybe, just maybe, let us hope some degree of rational deterrence is possible. if he ever uses a nuclear weapon, the result would be stunning retaliation that would end his regime that very day. when you take religious zealotry into account, when you have zealotry that embraces death and suicide, if the ayatollah ever used a nuclear weapon over tel aviv -- he could murder millions of jews, millions of americans. even if he knew the result would be overwhelming retaliation that would cost many iranian lives and topple his regime, the danger with religious zealotry, that cost benefit analysis might be acceptable to him. none of us should want to roll the dice of allowing him to have the weapons to find out just how he plays out that cost benefit. ir

alix: i do not think president trump wants to talk to iran. i think he wants to hurt the economy and drive them to the table. if iran will dig in their heels and you have europe trying these workarounds, president macron of france saying we might do a $15 million line of credit, we will give you money and you will pay us back with oil, that will not look good for president trump who wants a hard line against iran and will not back down from that. i do not think he wants to talk. i think maybe you do not get the job done because there is not enough pressure on iran. david: that is a distinction you make because john bolton had been hawkish on iran. before he went into office he said things were confrontational. president trump might have his cake and eat it too. he might say i can put pressure on iran through economic sanctions, but i do not to go to war. mr. bolton has a tendency to go in that direction. it is possible he could disagree with john bolton on that part of it but not sit down at the table. alix: what this reminds me of, and i'm su

iran uses its proxy to organizations, hezbollah, the houthis, the shiites in iran, against israel. we recently saw a serious escalation in which iranian missiles were launched against saudi oil facilities in order to destabilize world oil supplies. this terror attack against saudi arabia was done on the direct orders of the iranian leader. iran is the biggest terror state and the biggest sponsor of terror in the world. i call on the international community to unite in order to stop iran. the world cannot allow iran to develop nuclear weapons. the world cannot allow iran to develop ballistic missiles. and the world must stop iran from supporting terror organizations in the region. the u.n. must declare hezbollah and the iranian revolutionary guards as terrorist organizations. the world must stop them. i call on the international community to support president trump's maximum pressure policy against iran. this is the way to stop them. we must stop iran today in order to prevent war tomorrow. and to the iranian leadership i say, in their own language, [speaking persian] you don't coun

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pulled out of a 2050 nuclear agreement with iran last year the u.s. says its maximum pressure campaign is working but there are few tangible signs of progress since then iran has shot down a u.s. drone and the u.s. has blamed iran for attacks on oil tankers on the saudi oil site with the united states sending hundreds of troops reinforcements as well as anti missile defense systems to both saudi arabia and the united arab emirates iran's foreign minister sounds pessimistic i'm not confident that we can avoid a war. i'm confident that we would not stalked one. but i'm confident that whoever starts one rig not be the one who finishes it so this standoff continues both sides say they want to end with words not weapons john hendren al-jazeera washington hong kong police have clashed with protesters outside a shopping mall which was vandalized along with a metro station the demonstrators trampled on a chinese flag and lit fires as they targeted stores links to china it is the 16th straight weekend of anti-government protests circle reports from hong kong.

war and military threat to iran has. initially had another role and reason and incentive to be leveled against iran they start at the military threat in order to push tehran to the talks by increasing pressures alongside the sanctions and forcing to iran officials change their calculations and initiate talks with donald trump at miss ration once iran shut down their global hawk the american drone. a few months ago this law was called by iran and there you know military threats have no more credibility in the eyes of the iranian officials so donald trump is now in. stock in a dilemma a one side if he steps back and retreats people would start blaming him for you know. being a coward and he would lose face on the other hand starting war against iran would be devastating to him and to the united states that's why he has entrusted the decision making for such a move on the arabia and he knows that the saudis would not cool for any military option against iran because that would be devastating to the saudi economy they would

because the missile components made in iran. deadlock 2.0 israel's on yet another election stalemate with prime minister netanyahu currently lagging one seat behind rival danny gans and the coalition holds now. for a majority in parliament. in the coming days. to assemble a strong government i intend to speak with everyone starting tonight and work to form a broad unity government. and the new york times faces a backlash from publishing and from a forthcoming book about the alleged sexual misconduct of u.s. supremes court judge brett kavanaugh on the important details. it's 9 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international line from our studio with me welcome to the program. saudi arabia now claims that iran was involved in this weekend's attack on the kingdom's refineries and that the attack was not conducted from yemen in the south but came from the north and on swiftly rebuffed the defense ministries as lacking real proof his caleb moore pin with the details. well we heard the press conference from the saudi ministry

here the secretary of state says his government's policy is to avoid war with iran iran's president has told western powers to leave security in the gulf to regional nations tensions are high after a series of attacks including a missile and drawn strike on saudi oil facilities blamed on iran. earlier iran's president told the western powers to leave security in the gulf nations tensions are high after the series of attacks we have more from. against the backdrop of a military parade iran's president proposed a new security plan for gulf waterways. we're going to present a plan at the u.n. so that iran in collaboration with regional states is able to maintain security in the persian gulf the strait of hormuz and the sea of oman to the world that the presence of foreign forces can cause insecurity for international maritime movements and energy security and our approach will create solidarity unity and coordination with the countries of the region. iran's peace plan comes at a critical time pushing a message of peace and hope in her moves at the un general assembly in new york rouhani wi

is trying to deescalate the situation towards iran and and given the influence that iran has on the whole with the. i doubt iran would push the with ease and that actually it's definitely a complicated calculus when you're talking about the power dynamics in this region right you transfield with the yemen pollings and you coming in helping us understand this tonight thank you. and here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world at least 9 people have been wounded in an attack on a government building in eastern afghanistan militants detonated explosives before government into the building in the provincial capital. afghanistan is on high alert as the presidential election approaches there has been so far a new claim of responsibility so have shaved their heads in public. the protest against the country's new justice minister and that minister facing allegations that his daughter received unfair and favorable treatment at a university the speaker of the korean parliament joined opposition deputies today in their protest at least 11 people have died in severe

troops inside iran want to repeat that there are already u.s. troops inside iran the u.s. has long had its eyes set on trying to impact regime change in iran and much of what you've seen the u.s. doing with regards to iran has been on a covert level we've seen a report in a new yorker by seymour hersh that a u.s. source told him that u.s. marines were operating in the blue key missouri and kurdish regions of iran have you ever heard of that report i've never heard of the report i've never read the article nor do i intend to do you have any. as to whether or not you as the u.s. ambassador i don't have any interest as to whether or not u.s. marines are actually operating in iran right now and i said i had not heard of the report and i didn't intend to read the article in the new yorker if i gave you this article right now walked it over would you look at it i don't think so honestly congressman because i don't i don't have time to read much fiction. we have teams inside iran and these include joint special operation forces most elite commando unit it has been given executive

iran policy. now john bolton, the ultimate iran hawk, has been fired. according to u.s. president trump. many people thought perhaps diplomacy might get a chance. there was talk maybe of a meet ng a couple of week's time between rue mouhani and trump. donald trump has said he might potentially have been willing to indulge that. suggested they might meet if it was the benefit of the iranian people. sudden ly this morning, we're i a different world where the united states is saying iran's behind an attack without evidence. back to you. >> all right. all fascinating and very complex. thank you so much. >>> all right. let's talk more now with me now aaron david miller. he spent more than two decade okay, aaron david miller is not with us, actually. all right. we have a little confusion here. yes, there you are. i see you now. aaron david miller is with us. he spent more than two decades as adviser and negotiator were republican and democratic negotiations and bob bair is former cia operative who served in several middle east country. good to see you. thank you so much. so b

troops inside iran want to repeat that there are already us. groups inside iran the u.s. has long had its eyes set on trying to impact regime change in iran and much of what you've seen the u.s. doing with regards to iran has been on a covert level we've seen a report in a new yorker by seymour hersh that a u.s. source told him that u.s. marines who are operating in the blue key missouri and kurdish regions of iran have you ever heard of that report i've never heard of the report i've never read the article nor do i intend to have any interest as to whether or not as the u.s. ambassador i don't have any interest as to whether or not u.s. marines are actually operating in iran right now and i said i had not heard of the report and i didn't intend to read the article in the new yorker if i gave you this article right now walked it over would you look at it i don't think so honestly congressman because i don't i don't have time to read much fiction. we have teams inside iran and these include joint special operation forces most elite commando unit it has been given executive

iran woke up to find u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo had in fact accused them directly of being behind the attack. in the two tweets he provided no evidence but he set the idea that diplomacy would be back a pace or two. the world is really waiting for the details of who carried out this attack. now the notion is put forward by the houthi rebels. they were adequately technologically advanced to fly through tens of billions of dollars of saudi air defenses. it hit ten oil refinements. the houthis have the capabilities and some say the geography where these attacks were puts it a lot closer to southern iraq and even possibly iran across the persian gulf there. iran has categorically denied any involvement in this attack at all. their foreign minister said the u.s. is practicing max deceit. what's notable is the victim of the attacks, saudi arabia, has yet to directly accuse iran as well. is that because they fear if they did so they may be forced into retaliation? is that because they're not clear themselves

step for iran? >> translator: we will make that public. we will continue and follow this active resistance approach in all sectors. will . there is no doubt there will be more decisive steps to be taken. >> the recent tensions ignited when president trump withdrew the united states from the landmark 2015 iran nuclear deal and reapplied and added new hard hitting sanctions against iran. the president took to twitter to respond to the weekend's attacks writing in part, quote, saudi arabia oil supply was attacked. there is reason to believe that we know the culprit are locked and loaded depending on verify ki -- verification. they are waiting to hear from the kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack. president trump has used the locked and loaded threat against north korea and used nearly identical language aimed at iran early this summer. the secretary of state is saying what the president is saying. saying we know iran is behind this attack. about 100 attacks against saudi arabia,

recently that is the 12 year old boy and one of the few motown's in iran and centrally iran who was selling american dollars. in fact the leadership of the islamic republic is has made many kind of position for all the iranians and they need this in order for the news that he has said several times in order to attract were that tension because if they're not already probably just stops being enemy of the united states know whether he takes any notice of it this is that he says that if he abandoned out how to meditate on his stance because like pakistan even if you have nuclear weapons know where the ability to mr and mrs. to hear it don't you think that the americans or the trumpet ministration of least has aided these attention seeking on the part of the leadership in teheran because i mean one thing is it's propaganda but economic sanctions and this tightening of the screws that the. trumpet ministration how. persued is something very serious i mean if we just look at that figure is how much oil iran has been able to export over the last couple of years the figures show a very very dramat

do you see this all is laying groundwork for military action against iran. well it's definitely putting the united states in a position where he either direction but the saudis or by powers in the area could trigger some sort of conflict that draws the united states in right now but protecting saudi arabia the united states is putting it so in a very tenuous situation because if the american people they've already known we've been so poor in saudi arabia but i don't think the american people are willing to fight for a monarchy especially for corrupt monarchy such as we have in saudi arabia but the american revolution was against monarchy so we've come full circle since $1783.00 and are now supporting monarchy and i think if donald trump attempts to say we're going to fight a war for my home have been sown in the monarchy i think you're going to see a lot of disillusionment a month's american soul who's calling you mentioned there at the start of your response about triggering a response from iran we haven't actually had a response from iran officially yet on

iran has lived without the united states for 40 years iran has lived in spite of the united states for 40 years in order to remove security council resolutions the presence of the 5 permanent members of the security council required so we were not eager to negotiate with the united states is was a necessity once. that. objective was achieved for us the presence of the united states was not a major plus as you said from the very beginning even during the obama administration the united states was more interested in keeping the sanctions that it had not lifted than observing its obligations to lift the sanctions so this has been the case and we will never be even never. naive about the united states i lived in the us for 30 years of follow the united states for the past 40 years so i know what i'm probably missing many of your interviews you stress that economic benefits is one of the tenets of this deal the economic benefits economic benefits are one of the tenets of the deed and the deed actually rests on 2 pillars not nonproliferation and normalization of economic relations but that d