to the geneva two talks in syria well iran agreed to help from the sidelines iran is an important player in this region. it would be rather. ironic to have. those who support extremist groups participate in the conference invited to participate in the conference and then for some. predispositions say that iran should accept preconditions in order to participate in the conference . will either participate in the conference or as any other state that has been invited without precondition on the descent same circumstances and others have been invited and will participate. in the. main course of the conference and on the sidelines or iran will decide to stay away if you're not invited. we remarked accept anything that that is beneath our dignity that is our own the only can. we do not have any condition for participation in the talks we are prepared to participate if you are given the same invitation as anybody else who participated in the conference we believe we have a much more important role to play in this conference than many others who have been invited. but we are not convening this

in terms of capacity when iran -- in other duce words, iran maintains its industrial capabilities. construction of nonnuclear is ermitted and it proceeds elsewhere. he production continues. >> the details worked out in agreement by the i.a.e.a. and iran have provided them much wider access to this agreement. the 2003 undertaking included arlier access to the nuclear r&d. visit to was the tehran and component managed facilities and key material such as high strength weapons. one of the challenges that they are facing is the material centrifuge manufactured by iran. iran commits itself not to construct new locations and will not construct any thing capable for reprocessing. , the he access provided i.a.e.a. is in their capabilities in the statements made to iran. preamble of the this, additional steps and final step which includes addressing the u.n. security council resolutions that includes outstanding issues and of the iranian nuclear program. in other words, iran needs according to those resolutions to explain -- resolve the questions and certain high explosive studies and has to

effort to bring iran to the table. there are many members on both sides who feel it is appropriate for congress, the body that built the sanctions architecture, that brought iran to the table, to remind the iranians that full -- full sanctions relief will come only when a deal the p5+1 and the regional ally is reached. this relief can only come if congress acts so it also suggests it's appropriate to send iran a reminder as well as to remind the company lining up to visit tehran. a message of what is at stake if iran violates the term of the joint plan of action. a deal is in place. if we're going to move forward with a final view we have focus on them fulfilling their obligation by beginning to parameter of the solution. we are eight days in to the implementation of the joint plan of action. a six-month deal to freeze iran's nuclear activity resulting in sensation of iran's 20% enrichment and the convention of the current stockpile wells open up the nuclear program. and while the caps on iran's current program are sub

and iran their historical reasons for it their course u.s. run line says in the region so it's not going to be a brave new world just because the nuclear issue is resolved but i think the nuclear issue is so important that it should be resolved before other issues are even addressed so i don't i don't see is somehow a return to the good old days of the shah being policy would whoever is in the white house those days are gone but the nuclear issue is such a dangerous so you shoot that it's in the interests of both to us and you're on to the road need to resolve that richard doesn't it if they were determined position of being on ministration go ahead richard jump in go ahead yeah it is it is there's been a bomb inspirational they phrase it a little differently it's if you can't trust iran to agree to comply with its nuclear obligations you can't really trust them for anything syria afghanistan ever and so therefore we have to settle the nuclear issue before we can achieve extensive cooperation with other areas although i think you're going to

>> guest: well, iran is a what is good about iran? i guess what concerns me most is the stereotypes that are wrong, and, for example, that khomeini tried to take the revolution back to the seventh century, at the time the faith was founded by the prophet mohammed. in fact, there are many attempts to modernize. they've kept on many of the modernization products started by the shah building a subway system in teheran, building new new development projects. i think that their focus, their hatred was channeled against the west. it was the westernization that was synonymous with modernization that so turned them off. and there are still many sides of life where iranians are approachable. they're open -- life for women is better in iran than it is in many of the gulf sheikdoms with which we have good relations. there are women in parliament; there are women in the ministries; 51 percent of teheran university a year ago was accounted for by women students. so it's not what is good or bad about iran; it's a different culture, and it's... i th

to the geneva two talks in syria well iran agreed to help from the sidelines iran is an important player in this reach it would be rather. ironic to have. those who support extremist groups participate in the conference invited to participate in the conference and then for some. predispositions say that iran should accept preconditions in order to participate in the conference. will either participate in the conference or as any other state that has been invited without precondition on the descent same circumstances and others have been invited and will participate. in the. main course of the conference and on the sidelines or iran will decide to stay away if you are not invited. we will not accept anything that that is beneath our dignity that is our own the only condition we do not have any condition for participation in the talks we are prepared to participate if we are given the same invitation as anybody else who participated in the conference we believe we have a much more important role to play in conference this. then many others who've been invited. but we're not convening this

to bring for iran? >> of course, iran will gain officially around $8 billion immediately. this money will be transferred to iran starting from 20th of this month, january 2 days ago. more important, there will be more deals with the iranian government over gaza and oil and thirdly, they will be changing the image of iran, changing investment. this is what iran hopes to achieve. >> israeli has been very cautious about this, saying it's just the actions, not soft words, as it says. >> israel will be always worried about iran not because of its nuclear issue, but because of the nature of regime. israeli will worry about the rhetoric, about the slogan, about the construction of the regime in iran and this will not change overnight. despite all of what's been said, you know, good will shown by iran, israel will worry about iran unless there are more things presented. >> it is an unlikely alliance between saudi and israel on this issue. >> it's unlikely to happen as we see it in public, but there is sort of,

in exchange for sanctions relief for releasing the sanctions on iran iran would be promising us that they will halt all enrichment of uranium above five percent that they will dilute to below five percent or convert to a form not suitable for further enrichment their entire stockpile of near twenty percent enriched uranium in just just to put this in context you can run a nuclear power plant with you or any i'm around three or four or five percent of believe medical applications but you really need over ninety percent i'm pretty sure to make a bomb if anybody out there looking to go back to those the that they will not install any additional centrifuges of any type that they will not increase their stockpile of three point five percent low enriched uranium but they will not commission the heavy water air act reactor that's a reactor that could produce plutonium and that they will not allow it or that they will i.a.e.a. inspections the international atomic energy association or agency fees agency thank you so john what does all this mean. this is basically a demonstration from all par

if the united states and western powers continue their dialogue with iran go ahead. well first of all i want to say i agree with the first part of what brian had to say with regard to the fact that yes the third is migrant workers yes they're paying off people with oil wealth but the idea that saudi arabia is somehow a client state of the united states i completely disagree with they have independent interests that often coincide with the united states and saudi arabia can pursue an independent foreign policy if iran for example were to get nuclear weapons saudi arabia would have nuclear weapons probably within a month because of their alliance with pakistan that many people think that pakistan got their nuclear weapons because of saudi money so if there is a nuclear arms race we will be right there after iran it's one of the reasons why i support the current iran deal because i think it is the best chance we have to prevent this nuclear arms race from happening but please don't pretend that saudi arabia somehow is an independent or somehow if the united a client sta

is long and getting longer the saudis are furious over western dealings with iran disappointed that obama didn't bomb syria and determined to export its radical form of islam and one of its only real friends in the region is israel given all of this can the house of saud afford what it calls an independent foreign policy. crosstalk saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he is the national coordinator of the answer coalition and in nashville we cross to mark levine he is a senior fellow with the truman national security project and a radio show host or a gentleman cross talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage you brian is it time for washington to tell saudi arabia to pound sand. well i think it's been long established that the u.s. government considers the saudi government to be an indispensable ally not its only ally and perhaps now not its principal ally but certainly an important one ronald reagan made it clear more than thirty years ago that there would be quote no revolution in saudi arabia because the us was ju

let me turn to iran. what we talk about iran because it's clear the most pressing issue we face today. these other issues that i discussed lurking in the background. in fact, we funded a group called we think immediate and they did a survey for us, and of all the stories over the last several years there on nuclear policy, 70% of them are on iran. so we could think of ran is our greatest threat, you have a reason to think that the most of what you read on nuclear policy, i don't happen to think the. i think iran is a concern but i'm much more worried about pakistan than i am about iran, a country that always has 100 nuclear weapons. there's a chapter in "nuclear nightmares" called the most dangerous country in growth and it's not about iran. it's about pakistan. iran is the most pressing issue. it becomes now a critical policy point, if we get this right there are enormous benefits that can play out, that go beyond solving iran nuclear program. strategic openness that could develop in the middle east. ope

and iran to decide over whether iran should attend these this conference is now over should iran simply say its word that it could scupper these talks and simply acknowledge that fact and now walk away. was oh i don't think so and i don't think that would be a wise approach by iran iran has repeatedly expressed his interest to participate and play a constructive role toward a political settlement in syria their foreign minister zarif radio raiding iran's principle position in favor of a political transition in syria you know democratic free elections and so forth so i don't think iran will walk away given the fact that syria strategy. and the civil war in syria are serious ramifications in terms of regional instability affecting iran's national security calculus so i think that iran is interested and keen on accepting the invitation sent by the un secretary general which to my understanding was sent without any precondition and that has been confirmed by the deputy foreign minister mr yon who said that iran was not invited to geneva a wonderful it's sort of illogical to impose on iran s

iran's support for terrorist groups like hezbollah and thomas. iran -- hamas. iran is actively engaged in subverting the government in several countries in the middle east right now. the intention of u.s. negotiators right now is to try to focus very narrowly on the nuclear aspect of this. we can talk about whether or not this is a successful approach. when it comes to the iranian perspective, i'm not sure that they're looking for friendship -- i think the intention of u.s. negotiators right now is to try to focus very narrowly on the nuclear aspect of this. we can talk about whether or not this is a successful approach. when it comes to the iranian perspective, i'm not sure that they're looking for friendship with the u.s. they want to get out from under the burden of these sanctions. i don't think they see themselves as ending up as aligned with the u.s. at the end of this process. they look to other countries in the world as their natural allies such as china and russia. host: let me summarize how "time" focuses on this deal. the easy part in dealing with ir

resolution says remove it from iran. it can be left from iran and diluted but it's possible to reconvert it. you can go to 90% to create a weapon. the idea of the congress not acting really does offend me because the purpose of the sanctions is to deter them falling apart at a time we still need them. sanctions is to determ falling apart at a time we still need them. the number of countries sending delegations to iran is growing by the day. beginning to fall apart. if congress voted to pass new sanctions that could only be imposed if this agreement fell apart, it would reinforce to the western world, stop doing business with iran. michael singh, the politics behind all this, what's going on? guest: to the extent we have made progress on iran that led , ithe stage we're at now was as a result of cooperation between congress and the president, perhaps unspoken cooperation. it was that combination of very tough sanctions as well as this diplomacy which has taken place as well as other factors that led to the place we're at

a point of difference between iran and turkey. what is going on between the two countries, why are they meeting. is it the trade ties? >> i don't think so. i mean, if you look at the turkish foreign policies, tps an impasse, it's in deadlock. it is not going anywhere. both in syria and the u.s.-turkey relations. the prime minister is looking for an escape out of the impasse, then to find a base upon which it can put in turkish policy, to go back to the original policy. i don't know if people believe that at this moment. >> speaking of u.s. turkish relations, u.s. officials, before the meeting said that iran is not open for business as you are aware. there have been sanctions on rain, which have been - some of which have been relieved with the p5 plus 1 nuclear deal. by turkey going to iran, are they undermining sanctions. >> there's an ongoing investigation in turkey. >> the cash for gold. >> yes. in that case that shows that turkey undermined the sanctions. that's the sensitive part of the investigation. to what extent after this

we just ran a four-part series on iran and south asia so there's one on iran and afghanistan, iran and pakistan, iran and india. so i commend it to you. so iran primer.com. >> very good. let's go here. >> thank you. i'm from george mason university. my question is about new technology and social media. we know more than 50% of iranians have access to internet, and rouhani and zarif also on twitter. but a few days ago they had a policy to have more censorship on social media and internet access. how is it fixed with the realistic policy of rouhani? >> i'm happy to take that. i follow both rouhani and zarif on their twitter account coming yesterday in fact which is posted on the iran primer today tweets from the presidents account on his speech about freedom and the arts. and one of the problem is that president rouhani doesn't have control over that issue, and it's one which he's talked about a lot. and again this goes back to the nuclear deal, that they can't do anything else until they get this nuclear deal and they prove their credits and the rest of the regime has to bend more becau

it was a phenomenon in iran. it proved that the iranians are trying to support the system by electing the right people and the right person. they are serious to continue on. >> thank you. >> it was a pleasure to see you. >> the ambassador of iran to united nations. back in a moment. stay with us. >> but i will say that we are working with great intensity, serious purpose, and with a commitment to try to resolve this conflict that has gone on for many years too long. in which i think presents is now with the possibility of trying to find a framework agreement which would really lay out the endgame. >> for decades, american diplomats have attempted to broker a palestinian-israeli peace deal. secretary of state john kerry kick started the process last july. he just returned from his 10th trip to the region. he promised that any framework would be fair and balanced. joining me now is riyad mansour, the permanent observer to the united nations for palestine. i am pleased to welcome him. where are we? >> one should adm

the story is that syria, iran during the iraq-iran war and they helped us a lot. what we said about syria is the stability and, it is very important for us and in the region, stability, so, therefore, this is the responsibility of syrian people to decide about themselves. so that is why we have supported any kind of initiative to stop the bloodshed in syria and bring closure together to the real open position groups, not sunni groups and terrorist groups, the real opposition group with is syrian government to solve their problem and come up with what they want to see for the future of the country. >> rose: how strong is the commitment to the individual bashar al-assad, the president of syria? >> i mean, would you and i mean would iran be part of some negotiation that would witness his removal from power if there was a division of power in syria? >> i don't believe that based on any international law and regulations any country has any right to decide about the government, the kind of government in another country. what needs to happen in syria should be syrian led

and also by iran. we just ran a four-part series on iran and south asia. iran and india. iran and pakistan. i commend that to you. it's on iranprimer.com. >> very good. all right. let's go here. >> thank you. i'm at george mason university. my question is about new technology and social media. we know more than 50% of iranians have access to internet and rouhani and zarif also on twitter. but a few days ago they have a policy to have more censorship on social media and internet access. how is it fixed with the realistics' policy of rouhani? >> i'm happy to take that i onlow both rouhani and zarif their twitter accounts and we just posted tweets from the president's account on his speech about freedom in the arts and one of the problems is that president rouhani doesn't have control over that issue and it's one which he's talked about a lot. and again, this goes back to the nuclear deal, that they can't do anything else until they get this nuclear deal and they've proved their creds and the rest of the regime has to bend more because the balance of internal power moves mor

and you come to the confused power structure and in iran -- in iran. i think president rouhani wants an arms agreement as a way of relieving sanctions and preserving as much of iran's nuclear assets as possible. at the same time, i think iranians are not sentimental about their nuclear diplomacy. this is a longer context. the american administrations going back to the 1970's have always viewed arms control and detente as join together. the soviets could easily negotiate with the united states and invade afghanistan. they saw no necessary connection between the two. they are not sentimental about this. we tend to view arms control as flying open a different relationship with the country and the country in the region. that is the way we approach arms control. >> hillel? i was going to ask you something specifically. believe, thewe administration believes a nuclear weapons program makes the iranians more responsible? it calms them down? >> you mean an agreement? >> an agreement and program, having the actual bomb would calm them down and make them more re

because it's it restricts the possibilities for banks to open letters of credit for iran. to important matters this is basically what they've done is that something that senator menendez can be proud of that's for him to respond to but the iranian people will stick to the road it's really not bow to pressure the way they've got to understand that the way to deal with iran is true respect sanctions have not produced and produced any results up to now they will not produce any results that are positive and constructive and can help resolve this problem in the future if they believe that sanctions are so important. then they can test it and see the consequences i don't see the consequences of something that they like but also the way i see it as far as this particular agreement is concerned iran claims that any signed agreement gives it the right to enrich uranium at a low level for peaceful purposes america says this agreement does no such think we're not talking about which side reads what in this agreement correctly or incorrectly at the end of the day you have two main ne

and also on iran. we just ran a four-part series on iran and asia. iran and india. it's on iranprimer.com. >> very good. all right. let's go here. >> thank you. i'm and george mason university. my question is about new technology and social media. more than 50% of iranians have access to internet and rouhani andzarif also on twitter. but a few days ago they have a policy to have more censorship on social media and internet access. how is it fixed with the rouhani?s' policy of >> i'm happy to take that i follow both on their twitter accounts and we just posted tweets from the president's account on his speech about freedom in the arts and one of the problems is that president rouhani doesn't have control over that issue and it's one which he's talked about a lot and again, this goes back to the nuclear deal, that they can't do anything else until they get this nuclear deal and they've proved their creds and the rest of the regime has to bend more because the balance of internal power moves more from rouhani's favor. they also don't want to move too quickly because th

invited iran, and the opposition threatened to boycott. showirst, iran needs to good faith. i believe in the political process. i believe in peace. >> the u.n. withdrew its invitation. ban ki-moon's spokesman accused the iranians of acting in bad faith. likes the secretary-general is deeply disappointed by iranian public statements today. they are not at all consistent with the stated commitment. >> the u.s. and britain say iran has to declare support for a transfer of power in syria. we have no problem in principle of iran attending, it has to be the same basis as all of the rest of us, to implement -genev president assada i. >> made clear he won't step down. that is the opposition's main demand. extremist groups will fight on, no matter what happens here. the big international supporters include saudi arabia. is a western ally, but it gives money and guns to rebel groups that oppose democracy. iran -- it bankrolls the regime. an agreement without iran might be possible, but now they are not going to these talks. thething that is hoped achieve, access for aid. this is rare

first, iran's president tweeted the world's powers surrendered to iran's will. second, iran's foreign minister declared his country isn't dismantling any of its centrifuges. and then you have iran's president today explaining to cnn's fareed zakaria what the chants of "death to america" really mean. >> what they mean to say relates to the aggressive policies of the u.s. and intervention and meddling boy the u.s. we don't want those to continue. >> well, i would just suggest that you that if an american leader was wandering around chanting death to iran, it would be hard to explain we meant that it symbolic. and they have had a long tradition now of over 30 years of behaving as though they mean it. >> you're right, newt, they have a long tradition of saying things exactly like that. but what matters here is that for the first time in decades we have an agreement in place that has halted iran's nuclear weapons program. it's a temporary agreement that dpi gives us space to negotiate a broader deal. this is real progress that the american government under president

act and its contingent sanctions on iran? i ask you, ryan. >> well, you know, they are being accused of supporting it because they want to scuttle these negotiations. the white house has gone on the record and said that, quote, unquote, certain senators ought to be up front if they want war with iran, because the argument that they are making is that unilateral sanctions would allow hard liners in iran to play the victim card and say the united states isn't dealing fairly with us. the international community would broadly agree with that assessment. and we would have managed somehow to turn iran into a sympathetic figure in the global stage, which would be just an embarrassing accomplishment. >> collapse of the talks as well. john, clearly behind this, israel's behind this, a-pac, israeli lobby-- >> behind what? >> behind this s 1881, the senate bill. you get the republican hocs, evangelical christians, saudis, an enormous coalition. i agree with ryan that if the republicans succeed somehow in passing this, overriding the pre

iran needs these sanctions to be lifted further. they are hoping with the opening offensive they will be able to encourage more investment. the president invited all participants to come to iran to investigate opportunities and meet to see where they could do deals in the future. the is important to restart economy. there was also a warning from the president about the obstacles, the other sanctions that remain as a block to the economy and how that might create further diversions. tweetedf the most ian bremmer, the president of a political risk consultant firm, and this is what he had to say about the speech. >> is stored, the most important we have seen from an iranian leader since the revolution. he is focused on the improvements of his country economically. this is a guy that wants to show the world that he is committed to a comprehensive nuclear deal. it does not mean it will happen. a lot of people will be skeptical and upset, but if you are asking me if that is the speech that international community hoping for a deal wanted

predispositions say that iran should accept preconditions in order to participate in the conference iran will either participate in the conference or as any other state that has been invited without preconditions under the scent same circumstances and others have been invited to participate. in the. main course of the conference on the sidelines or iran will decide to stay away if you are not invited. we will not accept anything that that is beneath our dignity that is our own the only condition we do not have any condition for participation in the talks we are prepared to participate if you are given the same invitation as anybody else who participated in the conference we believe we have a much more important role to play in this conference than many others who have been invited. but would not convening this conference or other convenience of the conference they will destroy. their own benefit on that are meant to vote or not so let me make sure i understand this correctly iran will only help advance the peace process in syria if it isn't right as a full member of the difference iraq.

iran -- hamas. engaged inively subverting the government in several countries in the middle east right now. the intention of u.s. negotiators right now is to try to focus very narrowly on the nuclear aspect of this. we can talk about whether or not this is a successful approach. when it comes to the iranian perspective, i'm not sure that they're looking for friendship with the u.s. they want to get out from under the burden of these sanctions. i don't think they see themselves as ending up as aligned with the u.s. at the end of this process. to other countries in the world as their natural allies such as china and russia. host: let me summarize how "time" focuses on this deal. the easy part in dealing with and six major powers have agreed to a six-month freeze of tehran's nuclear program. guest: that's in many ways an oversimplification. i don't think this interim stage is the easy part. there's going to be two very hard things coming up. one is negotiating the final agreement. that will be very dif

iran won't come to the table sanctions. iran won't come to the table sanction. you will turn the tv off right mister or sanctions. >> there are 59 senators including 16 democrats who have deified the president to support a bill to ready new sanctions if diplomatic talks fail. >> jon: 16 dema -- what? i get republicans. they would line up to oppose obama on the or gaz yams cure cancer act or the resolution finding jennifer lawrence delightful but democrats -- democrats -- why would they vote for this? >> well, i think a lot of them haven't read it yet. [ laughter ] >> jon: really? they haven't read it yet. that's never slowed them down before. [ laughter ] why? why are the democrats really voting for this? >> but i also think that with big parts of proisrael lobby and the united states being against it, the country of israel being against it it's a steep hill to climb. >> jon: that makes it. the senators from the great state of israel are against it and we don't -- wait a minute that's not our country. why do we have to listen to snem israel is our alley and iran

which further hurts iran. the vast majority of the people in that country are under the age of 30, and they are sick and tired of these repressive regimes. and because social media, , youtube, theyet see how the rest of the world is living. and the tools of social media are not only used for aspirational purposes and seeing how everybody else is living, but highly effectively for organizational purposes tehran and is not like new york city. it is not like -- it is like los angeles. it is spread out. but the regime is good at keeping people down. we need to be very, very careful. i know i went a little bit longer here. i just ask -- brief comment. >> thank you, maybe we will have them comment with someone else. thank you so much, mr. higgins. next. >> thank you. thatemen, a couple things bear repeating over and over again. this is a key quote out of iran earlier in the decade. the dilemma was if we offered a complete picture, the picture itself could lead us to the un security council and not providing a comple

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both russia and iran have different interests. for iran the stakes are use. iran has been heavily invested in preserving the assad regime. it knows if the asad regime falls its regional clout diminishes by a huge proportion. it's doing everything it cannot for reasons of political theology or anything that has to do with religion but sure naked power calculations. if assad leaves power, saudi sai arainens will increase power. based on today's calculations that iran and russia are winning. >> what about that suggestion, that bashar al-assad is more in control of syria than people realize, and stronger than people gave him credit for earlier in this war? >> actually i don't share this analysis or view. his power relies on foreign players in the syrian crisis. he lost his reserve of manpower to fight his war. they came to aid him, hezbollah has now become a part of the fight in syria coming from lebanon. militias coming from iraq and others. so that is a clear indication that he is now surviving using foreign aid and foreign aid to his regime. >> professor landi

so with the u s urging the un to un invite iran. key members of the syrian opposition threatening to pull out the sink the general was said to be caught allegedly considering his options. but the wrongs common mission to the un helped him to make up is money. lip reading the united states writes issuing a statement it made it clear that iran would melt it and it's good to have to help set up the new syrian governments saying it's the anticipation of the rawness conditioned to accept genuine communicate the role will not participate in geneva to conference. that effectively cleared the way to visit the gentle trickle his invitation. scott's cousin announcing the news he has decided that the one day. montrose gathering will proceed without the wrongs participation. with all the cctv. the likely continue on the upcoming geneva to peace talks are to follow up on the costume from last june the objective this time around is to implement geneva one communicate for preview of the conference list of the correspondence which investing he's in

these entities either helped iran evade sanctions or provided support to iran's nuclear program. on january 7, the administration halted the transfer of two boeing airplane engines from turkey to iran. through these actions, the obama administration has made it abundantly clear the united states will continue to enforce our sanctions against iran. third, the agreement does not codify the violation of u.n. security resolutions. critics have attacked the interim agreement for its failure to completely halt all of iran's nuclear enrichment by noting that six united nations security resolutions have called on tehran to do so, and it has not done so. the purpose of the u.n. resolutions was not to suspend nuclear enrichment indefinitely. instead, these resolutions were designed to freeze iran's nuclear activities until the iaea could determine whether or not iran's activities were for exclusively peaceful purposes. now, this is an important point. the interim agreement achieves what the united nations' six resolutions could not. it freezes iran's nuclear progress while a comprehensive,

the interim agreement over iran's nuclear. program the united states went ahead and signed the accord even though it was very apparent that saudi arabia and israel were not happy about that so i think the fact that the united states has conducted under the obama administration diplomacy with iran in fact has done so secretly for the last. for over a year and is now signed an interim nuclear agreement and is intent to hope to to sign a comprehensive agreement despite the concerns of saudi arabia and israel i think indicates that in fact the united states has pursued its own interests in the middle east and continues to do so i would point to another example where the united states pursued its own interests in the region with regard to egypt the united states you know albeit somewhat reluctantly but did ultimately support the overthrow of hosni mubarak in egypt despite the fact that again israel and saudi arabia were opposed to that so i don't think i think it's wrong to imagine that somehow u.s. foreign policy in the middle eas

include iran almost derailed the process and iran is out and the talks are set to go on as planned. world leaders including n secretary general moon are starting to arrive in switzerland and syria's opposition will be taking part in the talks which officially get underway tomorrow in geneva. on monday the u.n. rescinded iran's invitation because the country would not commit to the geneva communication, a plan to establish a transitional government in syria. >> joining the global consensus behind the geneva communicae and outside of the basic understanding he has decided the one day montra gathering will go without their participation. >> reporter: they are busy keeping peace talks on track the war ranges on in syria as nick reports from the border syria shares with turkey the fighting is taking place across the country. >> reporter: just two days before conference designed to start a peace process syria's war is as violent as ever and monday's deadly attack and killed at the crossing and targeted vehicles going into syria and destroyed shops and killed customers. we are right on the

. >> i believe strongly that iran needs to be part of the solution to the syrian crisis. >> iran gets the invite but just days before the syrian peace talks fears they might fall apart. >> a dangerous turn in the koran. ukraine. >> i'm jessica taff where the shawks havseahawks have just pur ticket to super bowl 48. we'll have later in sports. >> tonight the syrian peace talks are in danger of ending before they even get started. just hours ago the united nations invited iran to the conference in switzerland but that upset syrian rebels who are threatening to pull out. the united nations wants the invitation suspended until it agrees that syria's president steps down. >>> shuttled diplomacy over syria. this was moscow last thursday. a meeting of friends and allies. russian hosting the iranian and syrian foreign ministers. the man from teheran that his -- making clear that his country was ready to go. the u.n. secretary-general made this announce. >> pledged that iran would play a positive and constructive roll in montreul. therefore as convenor and host of the conference i have issued

but iran's stance on this is clear. i feel that a common agreement is forming, but the main problem is extremism and sectarianism. >> those comments were made a week after a trip to jordan. >> they support not only the syrian conflict but political conflict in iraq and lebanon, and saudi arabia is nervous about iran's growing ambitions including its nuclear ones. >> reporter: iran has agreed to suspend its most sensitive nuclear work in return for limited sanctions relief. iran and the five permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany will implement the agreement over the next six months. it took ten years of diplomacy to make the deal happen, but just six months and a new government to start what many see as iran's return from the cold. al jazeera, tehran. >> for more on those syrian peace talks that may or may not start we turn to james bays in geneva. >> reporter: it's taken nearly eight months to get the syrian opposition to agree to come to the talks which are due to talk here in switzerland from wed

now iran's new president rouhani offers hope of a new beginning, unless rouhani is blocked by iran's hardliners. >> a major open question is whether president rouhani can actually implement any deal inside iran. >> reporter: or unless the deal is blocked by its many critics in congress. while iran is cooperating on the nuclear issue, it is still arming syria's president assad. so after intense pressure from the u.s., tonight the u.n. has withdrawn its invitation to iran to take part in peace talks this week on syria. the first talk since the war started more than two years ago. brian? >> andrea mitchell in our d.c. newsroom tonight. andrea, thanks. >>> we heard today from an american missionary who has been jailed in north korea for over a year. kenneth bae appeared a news conference, appealed to the u.s. government to negotiate for his release. he said he had apologized for anti-government actions against north korea. it was not immediately possible to confirm whether he was speaking freely or speaking from a pre-prepared script. >>> in ukraine, violent new anti-government protests