the jews live in iran. like every other person who lives in iran freely. >> you know hillary clinton told me and she's told others that the united states is very concerned about the increasing militarization of the iranian government, that the revolutionary guard is very involved, not just in its military activities but in politics, in economics, in business, that they're cracking down on the people, as you know. there are still hundreds of election protesters in jail, many of them without evidence, without trial. why the militarization of the iranian system? why? >> translator: don't you think that miss clinton should think a little bit before she makes statements of such nature? i think miss clinton is a very respected woman, but she should really gather more correct information to base her statements on accurate information. >> i have to ask you this one last question. i just want to know if there's any chance that you will respond to the invitation of the obama administration to engage with the united s

in iran. the regime tries to use these interviews as a sign, as they it as a sign of iran's importance in the international community the fact that everybody wants to interview him is not seen by them as the fact that he has become a mr. magoo character and has become a caricature of a head of state, they see it as a sign of importance and they milk it, and from political prisoners within the last 24 hours a gentleman who is the undersecretary in the interior ministry met with his wife and said, "tell the international community, these are all lies and i'm willing to come and show and debate and prove it is false." >> charlie: what do you do and what do all of you do and beyond those of us who are reporters, what do you do to bring the pressure of an international community to the human -- to those cases? >> i think it's absolutely essential that we continue to raise awareness. all of my friends who have been political prisoners in iran, including haleh will tell you it was heartening for them

anything in iran is negative according to the united states only thing that iran has yet to be accused of by the united states is global warming and perhaps that will come up later on but i think what is more important is anything to do with iran taking hostages with iran killing marines in lebanon with marines attacking military views and why do you. think you are you know i think you actually are a war actor you know you're very kind of the bad and that's why they have a problem with you know i think i think you i think you have a problem with your history classes in the united states iranian american relations didn't begin with the embassy takeover they began with the united states overthrowing the national government in iran through a coup d'etat installing a puppet shar and then draining the country's resources for decades. well you can watch crosstalk in just over an hour here on r.t. and i will be on to our next story of long standing pledges to eradicate world poverty and hunger are sharp focus of the u.n. summit in new york also on the sidelines of the meeting middle east peac

but as discussion of iran's nuclear program takes the floor at a u.n. meeting in new york the media blitz against it has been launched and then has been the main target of the pricey ad campaign the president going to judge himself to his report no it has been to investigate what you think of the build up. just. call it a september tradition the president of iran visits that the apple. angry protesters school on his arrival are going to the state is this. is the biggest area. and. people being hurt there wasn't a blizzard you don't get people to the hospital it is the dr no right now to bill you need don't show it in there is that it. or you read there would be dos mahmoud ahmadinejad may be the most hated guest at the hilton. but the world leader americans love to vilify is also the most visible face in manhattan courtesy of this organization united against nuclear iran a number of people don't understand the extent to which you can agree just violator of human rights his they don't understand seriously the dangers of a nuclear armed iran and the purpo

and is discussion of iran's nuclear program takes the floor to u.n. meeting in new york the media blitz against it has been launched and i have been the main target of the pricey campaign is president i'm going to charge him so well to these were important. i don't know just. call it a september tradition the president of iran visits but the apple. angry protesters school on his arrival i am going to do so because this. is the biggest area. and there are people being hurt there doesn't represent the iranian people it must be honest to drive know right now to bill you need on show didn't is that it. or you'll be there mahmoud ahmadinejad may be the most hated guest at the hilton. but the world leader americans love to vilify is also the most visible face in manhattan courtesy of this organization united against nuclear iran a number of people don't understand the extent to which an egregious violator of human rights here is they don't understand seriously the dangers of a nuclear armed iran and the purpose of this ad campaign is to raise awareness of t

to diplomacy should iran choose to walk through it. the iranian government must demonstrate a clear and credible commitment and concern to the world a peaceful intent of their nuclear program. -- and confirm to the world a peaceful intent to their nuclear program. >> now they will lose a trading partner. >> europe has reduced their trade with iran and china has increased their trade. they're one of the leading trading partners and investors. the chinese did not have to support the sanctions. the sanctions will not have their intended impact because they will be swiss cheese sanctions. the only work when they are universally applied. the possibility is for the chinese government to step up and act like a world power because of the rest of the world does not want iran to become a nuclear weapons state. >> this week is called sacred defense week. the group that was instrumental in taking down the revolutionary green movement has been showing their strength. the president has defended the start on the nuclear facilities. >> we have observe

and of course from iran so far we have been seeing very mixed messages from saying that iran's doors of cooperation and dialogue are open and we also heard the radian president say he believes that if the united states tries to launch some sort of attack on iran's uranium facilities that would mean want war. you're a new york world news in brief now and at least ten people have been killed in the explosion in the tunnel mouth about northwestern iran about twenty others were injured during a military parade as the country mark the thirtieth anniversary of the beginning of the war in iraq the provincial governor believes that kurdish separatists are behind the attack. china is demanding that you can release the captain of a fishing boat to take the east china sea the country's premier wen jiabao threatened to take action against japan the situation isn't addressed the chinese vessel crashed into two japanese coast guard boats taiwan two weeks ago the crew were arrested causing beijing to suspend contact with tokyo. games in new delhi have been hit by further setbacks after two athletes

said it wants to wipe one of its neighbors all summer so you can't talk about iran in terms of just a country developing and you could tell it's a danger to its neighbors and indeed as it develops a long range missiles to a much greater way really a sideway when i go to moscow i find people in most school even more concerned that the americans are about a nuclear iran because iran and terrified of the missile sites they're much course to the russian border than they are to the american border so the rhetoric might be different but we have all got a common interest in helping the people of iran to escape this dispute dictatorship to the start and to stall iran become a menace in the most volatile region of the world iran is no more a fundamentalist the people should be seated the least demonstrations of the people the people of iran want to be free they're able to demonstrate where they have been who through is through the crest of the moment but you know this is more a holistic picture and i think we need to be more sympathetic to the new cornish decent peace loving people in iran a

states tackles iran's uranium facilities other things that the mahmoud ahmadinejad has said that iran is open for dialogue and then he was saying that this format of five plus one is not exactly the best way for iran to cooperate so really no details worked out yet but at today's meeting the five plus one try to come up with the next steps that they would take if iran sits down for negotiations. well as discussion over iran's nuclear program takes the floor at a u.n. meeting in new york a media blitz against it has been launched in manhattan now the main target of the costly ad campaign is president obama did the job himself artie's muddy the portnoy has more. to do just. call it a september tradition the president of iran visits the big apple. angry protesters school on his arrival i am going to say please this. is the biggest area . and there are people being hurt there wasn't a blizzard around people you must be honest it drives know right now a good bill you need don't show it didn't is that it. or you'll be there more to the oas mahmoud ahmadinejad may be the most hated guest at

anything in iran is negative according to the united states only thing that iran has yet to be accused of by the united states is global warming and perhaps that will come up later on but i think what is more important is anything to do with iran taking hostages with iran killing marines in lebanon with marines attacking military here is why do you. think you're going to. hear a war out of. the bed and that's why they have a problem with and i think i think i think you have a problem with your history classes in the united states iranian american relations didn't begin with embassy takeover they began with the united states overthrowing the national government in iran through a coup and this installing a puppet shar and then draining the country's resources for decades. what's the next cross talk then in twenty minutes here on r.t. if you can. the u.s. is vote to expand cooperation with russia on missile defense global security and conventional arms limits in europe these are discussed at the russian nato council on the sidelines of the u.n. summit in new york. brings us more of the ma

and then convinced iran wants it. and if we all are reasonable and if we all recognize that there are security interests of iran just like there are security interests of other countries in the region, if we recognize that iran must cooperate, we fully remove any reasonable doubt, any doubt at all regarding its nuclear program. and if we engage iran on these grounds, if we develop a package which would oblige iran to do what we all wanted to do, at the same time which would oblige us to accept iran as an equal partner in regional issues, i think would be the best solution. and by the way, i know that president obama for the second time recently again indicated his desire to engage with iran. and i hope this would be third and i hope this would be followed up, at least a meet that we had in new york with the three plus three group indicates there is a very strong desire while using the pressure on iran but also a desire to engage iran and we will do this we will try to explain to iranians that this is first of all in t

it's iran's nuclear activities. no one expresses fear about iran's nuclear activities in the region except the zionist regime and the fear -- some american authorities. we are not seeking the bomb. we have no interest in it. and we do not think it is useful. we are standing firm over the issue that both the zionist regime and the united states government should be disarmed. the threat to the world are the bombs that the u.s. government and the zionist regime have. if they think that by propagating against iran that they can basically change their public opinion, they are wrong. we will stand firm on this issue. we will pursue it in all international organizations. we will discuss in the review process. the zionist was required and the document ratified by the ntp review conference to address its nuclear arsenal. so the u.s. government too must pursue this idea to ensure that the zionist regime's nuclear arsenal is eliminated because this regime is an illegitimate war-waging country. it has also proved that it does n

americans in iran. iran said that the half a milln bail had to be paid in cash. no word o made that payment. >> jenelle, thanks very much. dozens of list and firighters remain on th scene today after last thursday's deadly explosion and fire in san bruno. they're looking for a cause and police are providing security. terry mcsweeney joins us from that devastated area. terry, the coroner's office confirmed yet another victim today. >> that's right the official announcement came within the past hour that the fourth deceit result of this fire is 81-year-old elizabeth torres. her faly confide that informati to abc 7 news last week. as you can see behi me, you have a lot of emergency crews on the scene. fire trucks are here, a police department all over san mateo county. pg&e crews and progress in some area is being made. all but 14 of the homes have gas and electricity. that's excluding the 59 red-tagged homes, homes unfit to live in. why that pipe blew up creating a fireball and bursting the water main, th

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it's the same with iran. the consequences of confronting iran are, you know, i don't like to think about them. but we have to think about them. because the consequences are of not con friday nighting them and leaving them with nuclear weapons capability is also a problem. we live in a era of low predictability and tough decision-making. >> warner: tony blair, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> brown: and now we move from the perspective of a world leader to that of a businessman who is struggling to make peace on a smaller scale. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports from israel.- eporter: once upon a time this factory in central israel was a small kitchen selling a few jars of sun-dried tomato spread to delis in israel. then in 1992, founder benish got a visit from daniel, a recent law graduate and tomato spread fan. >> three people were working me and another two workers, and he came with a jar that he bought in a supermarket. he said this is yours? i said, yeah. he said i like this the most. i

what i discovered over iran's nuclear program takes the floor at a u.n. meeting in new york the media blitz against it has been launched in manhattan the main target of the pricey ad campaign is president with a job himself going to. call it a september tradition the president of iran visits the big apple. angry protesters scorn his arrival. the biggest area. and. just to drive no good bill you need on didn't is that it. or you. mahmoud ahmadinejad may be the most hated guest at the hilton. but the world leader americans love to vilify is also the most visible face in manhattan courtesy of this organization united against nuclear iran number of people don't understand the extent to which i mean just violator of human rights is they don't understand seriously the dangers of a nuclear armed iran. and the purpose of this ad campaign is to raise awareness of the specifics and we can only encourage people to take action again today new yorkers are surrounded by endless images of him sprinkled along second avenue posted along third pasted on phone booths and ho

iran is the member of international atomic energy and iran is the... part of... >> rose: the nonproliferation. >> n.p.t. so iran is getting out from atomic energy but iran should be transparent to us so this is the problem, you see. we want to see that this problem, this whole diplomatic way. but definitely this should be solved. >> rose: can turkey play a role? >> i think we have capacity to help, at least, because we are neighbors, we are able to talk. on the one side our alliance, member of nato very good strong relation with america. on the other side, iran is our neighbor. so we are in a position to talk. >> rose: i'm told that trade and the relationship between turkey and iran has grown. >> turkey depends on energy we don't have oil, we don't gas. >> rose: (laughs) right. you need to find it. >> so we are getting gas. in fact, we are getting gas from iran. iran is getting gas from turkmenistan. so... but they are selling it to us, you see. we wish to sell them, of course, russia wants to sell them. china wants to sell them. american companies are

with iran diplomacy. still can work so all the controversy with that we've been hearing in the past few months with major west europe reacting to iran sad. wanting to build nuclear power stations all this is unfounded if you're saying that technically speaking it will not be possible to produce nuclear weapons not this station isn't capable of producing weapons grade uranium the iranian nuclear program which war is americans and europeans and russians is not about bushehr it's about some other facilities which are on. stress the russian being very critical of iran north korea lee following all the procedures of international atomic agency still does not agree on whatever is in washington the london or paris or berlin as far as iran is concerned because russia has its own agenda with iran which is somewhat sometimes different and sometimes not related to nuclear energy at all russia and iran. difficult history of relationship. at the same time they have quite a while agenda. economic agenda including. the

and of course from iran so far we have been seeing very mixed messages from saying that iran's doors of cooperation and dialogue are open and we also heard the radian president see that he believes that if the united states tries to launch some sort of attack on iran's uranium facilities that would mean more war also a lot of media attention focused on the meeting of the middle east quartet as well was really positive news from them. well uh positive or not we're going to have to wait and see but definitely we saw an outcome when these talks of the quartet were held between russia the u.s. the e.u. and the united nations basically the main outcome has been an urge to wards israel to extend its freeze on settlement construction in the west bank and gaza and the reason this is important is because this has been one of the main milestones in the talks between israelis and palestinians because the palestinian people have been seeing them that if settlement construction there continues israel can forget about dialogue and this is of course something that's absolutely essential to trying t

sanctions on iran. talks are gripping the big apple as world leaders brainstorm how to eradicate global poverty and ensure peace in the middle east. you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital balkans in the program and also our top story the arctic's on tap natural wealth is a source of great temptation for the countries surrounding the icecap billions of barrels of oil lie beneath the sea and the arctic nations are keen to secure their sure now some of the finest scientific minds of gathered in moscow to make sure a different kind of cold war doesn't break out of a has more. all of the countries that have an interest in the stake in the arctic namely russia the united states canada and two scandinavian states all of them have a very big interest and of course all want a bigger piece of the pie that is the untapped seabed full of natural resources oil gas various minerals so the arctic is a very tempting piece but so far all of the sides that have a stake and have a potential claim

iran's p. iran as a nation has been >> the iranian nuclear bomb would trigger a trigger reaction of nuclear expansion. and that would then include nations in latin america. nucler expansion. and that would then include nations in latin america. a provocation by a the north korean regime have complicated the six-party talks to denuclearize the korean peninsula and have been undermining the regional security in general. the fact the north korean regime has a nuclear warhead and ballistic missile arsenal poses an obvious threat to the entire far east region and calls for new decisions that we would be why is to focus on unless these to crisis of iran and north korea are a result, many more states will have nuclear weapons and the would not be limited to the middle east. it would transcend and go to the other parts of the world. and mostly required by nations already balancing on the brink of the radicalization of the regimes and civil war. in this raises the probability that nuclear weapons would

iran again challenging the u.n. watchdog saying it is operating illegally, has no right to crack down. he's also saying the u.n. sanctions are having no effect, the effect of an interview -- in one interview he says it was a spoiled kleenex. what is your best information on how to deal with iran and whether these sanctions are having any effect? because certainly in his public statements skand iran's behavio it doesn't seem to have stepped back. >> you wouldn't expect the leader of iran to come ask say the sanctions are killing me. but with all the evidence we've seen, these have proven to be the toughest set of sanctions. u.n. community has ever imposed on iran and they're having difficulty as well as having iran move ships to acquire access to banking. they came in three categories. first, that that we passed at the united nations securities council. then the european union came behind, as did japan and south korea, others, canada, and imposed an even more sweeping set of sanctions as did our own congress. so in t

iranians inside iran? >> well, i don't know how that could be, because we made it very clear that we supported the legitimate efforts of the iranian people to protest and demonstrate against a flawed election. we made it very clear to the iranians that we thought that they had not only conducted an illegitimate election but counter to their own stated and professed laws and constitution, so we made it very clear, but we also knew that the worst thing for those protesting was for them to be seen as stooges of the united states. so, again, what we've tried to do is to stand up for the human rights of every person, most particularly those brave iranians, you know, lawyers and activists and others who are standing up and saying to the regime, no, you have to fulfill the promises you yourselves have made about what we should expect. without undermininging their efforts, now, it's very delicate and, you know, some days we get it right and some days maybe we could do better but our bottom line is we think the ira

you say iran is not cooperating. they say iran is not. so why not let them in if it's a peaceful program? >> translator: you say that we should not continue cooperation within the framework of the law and they should do everything illegally in our country. they should be confined to a law. >> they say they're following the procedures. >> -- go beyond the law. we say that it is against the procedures. and we have evidence, and the evidence is there in the iaea, and they have nothing based on the mpt and other laws and regulation. let me ask another question, modification provided by mpt, the iaea was instructed to -- to provide a report about the nuclear activities of the regime. and illegal regime that has nuclear weapons. they possessed nuclear weapons and they constantly threatened their neighbors, and in the past year, they threatened iran more than ten times. >> well, let's -- >> have they released any report about it? >> that's a question that the leadership -- >> -- of the united states and the -- >> i am honored to be with the pres

take off then she was saying that yes iran is ready for dialogue but iran is not happy with the format of the dialogue being suggested and then she would say that iran has been ready for dialogue this entire time so we're going to have to wait and see if real dialogue takes place any time soon all right thank you for that there was a nice to see a chicken of reporting from new york. now with this week's arctic forum in moscow looking at its projected mineral wealth the polar icecaps never been hotter later artie's call saga zones in on whether the international scrabble for a slice of the profits can be done without ecologically costing the earth. the energy which is drilling off the coast of greenland at the moment. you know all the vessels available there if something goes wrong that they were able to call on in the gulf of mexico greenpeace is more than happy to point out or oil breaks up much more slowly the arctic area than it would in the gulf large well if you want to jump in here i want to really jump in and say that there is. also the one that we people will explore in the fut

has imposed sanctions on iran. in officials for alleged human rights violations included on the blacklist style the country's interior minister and the commander of iran's revolutionary guard and the assets held by the man in the us are frozen while americans are banned from doing business with the movie's key to the rain insulation rolls in a can down an anti-government protesters after last year's disputed presidential election. western intelligence agencies say they've followed an al qaeda plot to carry out terrorist raids in several european cities it's reported teams of jihadists who were planning attacks similar to the siege of two hotels in mumbai two years ago the north was reportedly disrupted by a drone attacks on targets in pakistan and afghanistan songs germany and the u.k. are all on the heightened state of security at the eiffel tower was evacuated for the second time in the week on tuesday because of the terror threat. in india thousands of pharma say they're willing to fight to the death to stop the

because iran and terrified of the missile sites they're much course. to the russian border now they are actually to the american border so the rhetoric may be different but we have all got a common interest in helping the people of iran to escape the states protected to ship the star and to stop iran being a menace in the most volatile region of the world now here we're analyzing a country with at analyzing there a leader of the same way that possibly here we've done with iraq in the past so we should have a right to think that was a mistake because there were no weapons of mass destruction found out to date but we know that no we didn't know that then. so why is our is was after the other but iran and iraq have not the same iraq was a dictatorship of the most vicious and a horrible it was a country that is attacked one of its neighbors iran and used chemical and biological weapons it is a country that invaded another neighboring country kuwait and reaped and pillaged today and there is a country that used chemical weapons against its own people in the

sanctions on iran without a live to r.t.c. you go lou or hi there you go or now can you give us details on this decision by the russian military. well first of all this deal between russia and iran was signed back in two thousand and seven and is estimated to cost around eight hundred million u.s. dollars. one hundred. aircraft defense system. and since then russia hasn't yet actually shipped not one human it's all b.s. three hundred. air defense systems and now according to the people of russia general staff you go and modify russia is not going to ship any since in july the united nations security council have passed the fourth. set of sanctions against iran and now being included the shipment all ordinary armaments to the country as well including anti missile. and to sell india aircraft defense systems so now russian authorities are saying that they comply and respect the resolution itself the united nations security council and that's why they are not going to ship any of the as three hundred fifty to her own however the

materialist and if force is used against iran i believe this would be the shortest way. to the ridiculous in the room. truly. know that we will strike we must have. so striking the room in my view would be the shortest way to induce agreements going nuclear military and this is a position similar to what mahmoud ahmadinejad has been seeing he said that if the united states tries to attack its uranium enrichment facilities it can expect a war but the latest that we heard is that mahmoud ahmadinejad has promised that talks should come soon and hopefully some sort of cooperation with the international community is to follow. the un's atomic watchdog has not only rejected at resolution proposed by arab nations to allow an international committee to monitor israel's nuclear weapons program the proposal that israel's atomic allison which the country neither confirmed nor denied threatens regional security the u.s. voiced concern that the motion could jeopardize the ongoing peace talks with palestinians but one a former middle east diplomat claims that peace to be possible is t

iran on iran policy which is probably the obama administration's top priority we see w t o moving forward but slowly so there are modest achievements but it's a whole lot better than it was a year ago two years ago how different do you think president obama's foreign policy is to that of george w. bush i think it's very different this president seeks to inform. our eyes and cooperate in countries he seeks to consult with them. president bush had in my view is that habit of telling us our allies and our strengths and you want to work live like russia lecturing lecturing at a time after the fact after a decision was taken so i think this president seeks to build consensus i fear that president bush took unilateral action in my view too often what's the biggest obstacle in the way of improving russian american relations are several off circles the first is that while president obama and mitt got to. get along very well and i think they're genuinely friends of the visiting it's a very different and a long hard process to make the bureaucracies trust each other so you get direction from the to

however we have to remember that iran and iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad has really been playing a lot of mind games lately among other things that he has said is that iran is going to launch a war against the united states if the united states tackles iran's you rhenium facilities are other things that the mahmoud ahmadinejad has said that iran is open for dialogue and then he was saying that this format of five plus one is not exactly the best way for iran to cooperate so really no details worked out yet but at today's meeting the five plus one try to come up with the next steps that they would take if iran sits down for negotiations. discussion of iran's nuclear program takes the floor at a u.n. meeting in new york a media blitz against it has been launched in manhattan the main target of the pricey ad campaign is president medina job himself. has more. call it a september tradition the president of iran visits the big apple. angry protesters on his arrival are going to this. is the biggest area. and. we're. just a drive no good bill you need on show didn't get is that it. or

step russia is not anymore going to sell its past three hundred and so i missed out defense systems to iran i do to the recently imposed by the un security council sanctions against the country's nuclear program and it was thank shoes does suggest that any sale of weapons to the country including military planes three helicopters tanks and of course entire missile defense shield now then you shouldn't be the most going to launch the signs back in two thousand and seven when launches leaflets tell you that gold has begun to cut to the countries now they didn't have visitors but according to the russian people doubt whether this one check to be canceled altogether will depend on iran's actions we're still waiting to see here at home runs on this decision of the bush in the thirty's but russia has already won because those delivery will best thing hundred missiles to iran last winter and that the decision was not at all welcomes in iran so it is unlikely that it will be welcomed at this time but putting on what they did here do you

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and now to two years ago at the pentagon has has been reportedly developing plans of attacking iran how realistic is that when i think everyone goes in option planet from the lowest to highest well you know that's that's not true because iran is not a normal country seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and iran is a country whose president the ready said it wants to wipe one of its neighbors all summer so you can't talk about iran in terms of just a country developing and you could tell it's a danger to its neighbors and indeed as it develops a long range missiles to a much wider way reading and sideways when i go to moscow i find people in most school even more concerned that the americans are about the nuclear iran because iran and other the missile sites there are much course to the russian border than the united to the american border so the rhetoric might be different but we have all got a common interest in helping the people of iran to escape this disparate dictatorship to stop and to stall iran become a menace in the most volatile region of the world iran has no more a fundame

they expect iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons. it's called on the country to allow inspectors to view all nuclear facilities and interview relevant officials. iran's nuclear program will be discussed at an iae board meeting september thenth. the latest revelation is expected to lead to increased pressure on iran to stop its uranium enrichment activities. >>> with the u.s. midterm elections less than two months away campaigns started in earnest on labor day, monday. president barack obama was in the midwestern state of wisconsin to rally support for democratic party candidates running in the november congressional elections. all house of representatives seats and a third of the senate seats are up for grabs. in wisconsin obama unveiled a new economic stimulus package focusing on rebuilding railways and other infrastructure projects. it is a key state where democratic candidates are facing an uphill battle. >> i am going to keep fighting every single day, every single hour, every single minute to turn this economy around and put peo

transfers to iran. press reports indicate that sanctions have cut in half iranian trade with due -- dubai, long a critical export center for iran. south korean sanctions have suspended the operations of the iranian bank mallot branch in seoul. it is a known facilitator of iran's proliferation activities and south korea is iran's fourth largest trading partner. so the impact on iran is likely to be significant. based on our suggestion with the korean government, the bank's operations in that country have effectively been shut down for good. japan recently anournsed sanctions that target iranian entities and individuals of proliferation concern, including iranian banks, the islamic revolutionary guard corps, and the iranian shipping lines. these sanctions along with the prohibition on the transfer of proliferation sensitive dual use items to iran and new investment or sale of goods, service, and technology to iran's energy sector will deepen iran's isolation from the international, financial, industrial,

states tackles iran's uranium facilities are other things that mahmoud ahmadinejad has said that iran is open for dialogue and then he was saying that this format of five plus one is not exactly the best way for iran to cooperate so really no details worked out yet but at today's meeting the five plus one try to come up with the next steps that they would take if iran sits down for negotiations a martial arts champion who escaped from a russian psychiatric hospital has turned up in norway where he's pleading to be allowed to stay extreme nationalists viesturs love dot sick has a history of violence and was armed when he showed up to immigration office officials now sorry for takes up the story. he ran it decided he could no longer hide not long after his escape from the psychiatric facility in st petersburg. six has emerged in norway where he handed himself david to authorities asking them to grant him political asylum and that thank you. within there were a. day as well as highs of the last this part of the service this grabbing the attention. wearing a t. shirt with a swastika and c