policy on iran. iran is cornered, isolated, and its economy will suffer in ways we have seen under previous sanction regimes. i will share some evidence of recent sanctions, but i believe this time is different. america's choice will punish allies in europe, exacerbate tensions within the gcc and give china, and arguably russia and turkey more power within financial flows and new financial institutions. sanctions to be reimposed in august will hurt the trade sector most in construction materials, aluminum, and deal, -- steel and large currency transactions. we're seeing preemptive corporate exits from iran from asian and european firms. the oil and gas sector along with shipping will be most affected with sanctions on most november 4. affected will be transactions by foreign financial institutions. i think this is the decimal for the iranian economy. the fissures will be transatlantic. will work toc and the advantage of asian consumers of gulf energy products who are beneficiaries of the u.s. securit

iran has limited military structure in iran right now. they have not built up a missile array or ground forces there like you have in lebanon, and it has below were to be dragged into a conflict, again, you have 100,000 rockets that hezbollah arrangeduding rockets throughout israel, and if israel would want to stop the launch of rockets, they would have to go in on the ground. now,he fact is right hezbollah has become too important for iran to risk in such a war, and as a result, proxiese created these -- i mentioned before these groups being created to engage israel from the gallant -- from the golan so israel does not get dragged into the war. israel is also being concerned that iran and hezbollah may have been emboldened by their reinforceand might the propensity for overreach. we sought incidents, one involving syrians in eastern syria, the syrians working with russian mercenaries to attack resulting force units in american airstrikes and the killing of at least 200, andaps, of these russians pro-regime forces, and we still have the i

policy on iran. we join it in progress. >> you know, finding the voice of the iranian people and sort of economic warfare against iran. these are old tropes that officials fall back on when they don't have a creative new strategy of their own. trump's, i think, opposition to iran and the iran deal doesn't come from a kind of rational assessment of u.s. interests and the threats to our security. i think he has an intense hatred of the jcpoa because it was a success of his predecessor. not because of the details. i'm sure until this day he's read it and can't explain to anyone in the room about what is actually in the deal. so it's a lot of incoherence. just think about how these policies towards iran blend with what u.s. interests might be. is it in our interest to destabilize one of the most important countries in the region? is it in our interest to foment internal unrest which is essentially the default policy of the administration? is it in the trump administration's interest to harshly reimpose s

. >> so iran has kept its agreement under the iran nuclear agreement. it is abiding by the terms. when you say it's uniting the top, it's kind of solidifying the hard liners, right? >> it's further entrenching the revolutionary guards. whenever there is insecurity in a country, that often plays to the advantage of security forces. so the revolutionary guards who are already the most powerful institution in iran have grown more powerful. and to the extent that there were more pragmatic officials in iran, they have definitely been weakened over the last year. >> interesting. some have said like pompeo said, there is no such thing as a practici pragmatic in iran. do you believe that, there are no moderates in iran? >> i do think that there is a debate amongst iran's elites about whether they should be a nation or cause as henry kissinger put it. i think president rouhani does aspire for iran to be a nation state rather than revolutionary cause. the reality is those forces were already weak in iran. they have only grown weaker. >> so where do you think -- i

iran. he apparently missed that high level briefing in which they explained why such a smart idea to give hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief to a terrorist regime that leads chants of death to america and death to israel. but as you all know, in politics, talk is cheap. at the end of the day, it's actions that count. and as soon as president trump took office, supporters of the nuclear deal shifted into high gear to get him to back down and keep the deal. european leaders aggressively weighed in and the echo chamber and the media worked overtime to explain what a disaster it would be if america withdrew from the deal. even within the trump administration, many senior officials argue that the u.s. should stay in the deal. president trump could have kicked this can down the road. he didn't. he could have gone along to get along. he didn't. instead, president trump did what he promised to do. last october he refused to certify the nuclear deal and last may, president trump ter

is supposed to give iran a so-called package on friday and iran was says whether iran will stay in the deal or not we have to remember that when donald trump decided to leave the deal the rouhani government came under a lot of criticism domestically within iran because prior to trump leaving the deal . had actually threatened that if the united states withdraws then an iran would also withdraw and that's not something you ron has done of course so so iran is really waiting to see what the europeans will do whether they will be able to keep at least hope for the a major part of the deal the problem here is that donald trump does not only did not only decide that he wants to withdraw from the deal but essentially that he wants to kill do deal so he's implementing all these sanctions of maybe from his part to hope that iran would withdraw regardless of the europeans and i think this package will really much depend on what iran's reaction will very much depend on what the europeans will do on friday. president trump has been tweeting criticism of opec members saying that they must reduce p

plan to stop iran exporting oil a fantasy now tweaky hinted that iran could respond by stopping all time because from other countries passing through the strait of hormuz a regional gateway for imports and exports his government nonetheless faces a tough job to stop iran's economy from shrinking as the u.s. sanctions take hold many iranians are already desperate for relief from ongoing economic problems in june traders into her hands grand bazaar went on strike to make clear their concerns the collapse of the reality on the foreign exchange market is making imports more expensive and pushing up inflation meanwhile the government has blocked the import of hundreds of items in an effort to support domestic producers so what effect will the forthcoming sanctions have an how kind of raw navigate a way through them to discuss this we are joined in our studio by now. she is washington correspondent for iran international. how it was that he is a politics professor at the university after ron he joins us today from the iranian capital also and we have to say so the king she is a ph d. candidate

the own us is on iran. if they like the sanctions relief, then the united states has a few reasonable requirements. the verification regime needs to be fixed. the sunset provisions need to be lifted and the other bad activities must end. if there are any other nations around the world that want to keep the sanctions relief in place ask iran to change its behavior and agree to the united states' very reasonable demands. they are supported of president trump's determination to push back. they are the ones who are most impacted and they support the decision. in 2009, millions of iranians poured into the streets to protest a fraudulent election. and the united states offered zero support. president obama said it was none of our business which proved to not only be wrong but a huge error in judgment. we must learn from our lesson of 2009 and not repeat that will same mistake. united states must support the millions of iranians who continue to march in the streets desperate for support to help them turn the tide

youth unemployment is about 30% in a run iran -- in iran. demonstrations show that arab uprisings remain unresolved in the region. agitation from economic crisis is certain to pick at these wounds. it will have regional and international consequences and these are likely to be destabilizing. thank you. questionsof you have on these cards? yes. can staff please collect these and bring them to me? thank you. i would like to start off by the middle east policy council for the invitation to speak as well as for organizing this event and the opportunity to be on this panel of people. let me start off with a few comments about my take on the administration's strategy. hady count, we have authoritative policy statements on strategy, first by the president in october, where he rolled out the strategy, countering destabilizing regional activities and is proliferation of missiles and on fixing the flaws in the jcpoa. time, he was silent about the steps he intended to take to achieve the goals or how the strategy fit together and how to prioritize thes

so nobody in iran do you saying that the context that keep that i've been saying and iran that we saw just last week you know the same week that opec decided to increase production have nothing to do with how tough living conditions are for iranians at the moment they that you're saying they completely manufactured from the outside. no i think you should be wary about how you interpret what i'm saying what i'm saying is that as giuliani said he admitted that these are not spontaneous and the united states has been waging a propaganda warfare against iran for many years now so we have many persian language channels that are beaming into iran twenty four hours a day funded or own by western governments and we have a financial warfare campaign against the iranians going on it's been ongoing for decades now when under timepiece taking it a step further so giuliani has admitted that it's not spontaneous he has a big mouth and sometimes some things come out which reveal more than he should reveal but the point that i'm trying to make is that the more the americans are quite definitely going

no it will not force iran back to. negotiate with the americans the trump ministration doesn't want to negotiate it will not immediately change iran's policy in the region but that's because we have two competing competing false narratives that are both using of sanctions the us false narrative which is the trump administration one is we are going to change the regime in iran and mohamed ronnie's absolutely right that is the trump instructions goal but the false narrative from the iranian hardliner side is is to use the sanctions to tell the iranian people all these economic problems you have all these social issues you have all these concerns about the environment that you have that you've had for years it's all created by the foreign enemies it's all created by the americans or the british or persian language channels and of course it's not it's actually iranian people who have these concerns so you've got the iranian people who don't necessarily want the overthrow of the system but they want an accountable system th

people in the west and iran is a country you can't become an expert on iran without knowing at least the language you can't go to a persian restaurant and become an iranian expert iran is a complicated society and there are many checks and balances in iran and there are many political parties fighting it out as we speak over accountability and government corruption just as the current administration was doing the same with the previous administration we have a very sophisticated country with popular vote with elections with all of our leaders directed elected directly and indirectly by the people and as i said earlier the very fact that the americans are trying to strangle iran both under this regime the trump regime in previous regimes is i think a sign of iran's inherent strength but i think what the iranians are going to do is that they are going to try to rely more on local production and i think that ministration is going to move away from liberal liberal economics and move towards creating a larger map for the larger. net for those who are vulnerable and i think that also the f

policy toward iran. foreign-policy and nuclear security researchers spoke about options for the u.s. following its withdrawal from the iran nuclear agreement and sanctions. >> thank you for joining us. i am the vice president for policy of the national iranian council. i would like to thank senator markey as well as the rockefeller fund for sponsoring today's event. jcp away 2.0, iran, europe and the future of the run deal. we've got a great panel. we have kelsey davenport who is one of the top experts on the run deal, nuclear nonproliferation, she joins the association in 2011 as a junior piece fellow. she previously worked for jerusalem -based think tank researching security issues and she is a term member at the council on foreign relations. sitting next to me is john glaser at cato, his research interests includes grand strategy, u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, the rise of china and the role of status and prestige at international politics. they'll be joining us, he is the research director a

withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal. the panel hosted by the middle east policy council runs about two hours. >> good morning, everyone. i'm the president and chairman of the par board of the middle t policy council. i am pleased to welcome you on behalf of the council to our 93rd quarterly capitol hill conference. today we will address the issue of policy options towards iran following the u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal. as many of you are aware in january of this year we conducted a similar session focusing on iranian advances in the arab world. let me mention up front or focus today will be different. we've asked ouwe have asked ouro look at how, realistically, the trump administration and our partners in the region can address those actions of iran which they object to. this discussion was planted by the secretary's 12-point speech in may in which he listed 12 actions which the trump administration is calling on iran to take. today we are fortunate to have a truly expert panel to discuss if and how it mig

iran is still proving israel's defenses. iran is still the head of the snake in the middle east. hamas and hezbollah are huge terrorist organizations funded, trained and equipped by iran. the same iran to which the former president was trying to give billions of dollars. we must ensurethat iran's aggression is met with ever-increasing sanctions. keep up the pressure on iran, mister president . peace in the middle east is the secret to peace in the world. we are with you, mister president. be bold, be courageous. this is our hour to turn the world around . [applause] to the young people of iran who are protesting iran's rogue regime and its practices, christians united for israel stand with you tonight. you deserve a bright and predictable future. you deserve fair and free elections and you deserve better than the ironfisted dictators thathave enslaved your nation . previous administrations have not heard you. we hear you loud and clear. [applause] as the tide is turning in iran , our mantra must continue to be full steam ahead. victory will emerge out of this administration and c

iran should. negotiate only if they are ready to actually return to a behavior that falls in line with united states but also with. the intentions. in the region as well as israel for what it's worth noting that iran of course didn't pull out of the iran nuclear deal the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal do you believe that part of rouhani would have any incentive to meet with donald trump right now and even if he did. would he have the political capital to do so. you don't doesn't have any problems with negotiations iran has been negotiating about its nuclear program for the last sixteen seventeen years. in the senate i came and took two years of intensive negotiations between iran and p. five plus one so you don't is useful negotiation the only problem iran has is that the us hearing different policy ideas from washington as you pointed out president from. talks about negotiating without any conditions without preconditions this time in a press conference and then about an hour later his

is iran to israel today. iran is not an existential threat to israel but it is a strategic three. now let's compare the records of these two countries iran has never attacked a neighbor he has repeatedly attacked its neighbors iran signed the nonproliferation treaty israel has refused to sign iran submits to inspection but they by the international nuclear energy agency israel refuses to suddenly iran has no nuclear weapons israel has between seventy five and four hundred nuclear weapons so israel poses an existential threat to iran now thanks for the. recently and i want to make for the last forty years israel has conducted a systematic campaign of this information about iran why the lies why the double standards why the poc recy professors like can you say this in a straight face i cannot believe it if you look in the details israel right has been in existential threat ever since ever since its reestablishment and it was reestablished in one thousand four hundred eighty as a historian. in. israel. only out

that for us iran's place at the table in terms of international relations is a place that iran needed to come back to the negotiations to be able to start a dialogue with peace in mind and to not cause tense situations that can open the door it's a potential war they don't impress you said before that president putin and present cronje working together to salvage the iran deal could ease tensions and here ups east frontier yeah can macron do this while his russian policies are quite hostile there are sanctions accusations of election meddling sat around. i think that the relations between france and russia have been unsettled for the past number of years there were some mistakes from russia side but also from france aside so i think that there was between france and russia there has been a certain number of troubles in the last couple of years and i wholly approved when emmanuel mcconnell said from the very beginning of his mandate that. it was welcome in france and when he received him at the shuttle and when the talks are resumed as they were meant. i think that this relationship is

and iran? karim: there is. you have in president trump an erratic president who is not necessarily ideological but he is very impulsive. a -caps tweet taunting iran'san president hassan ro is an escalation. perhaps more importantly, you have the folks around president, ularly national security bolton, when he was out of government, almost every piece that he wrote about iran advocates military conflict. secrary pompeo himself is ve proudly hawkish. i think the onus is on iran to try to de-escalate, and that is generally not the instinct of iran's supreme leader. laura: on that point, iran's foreign minister hased, "color us unimpressed." you think there are fears in tehran about the bellicose etoric from president trump? karim: for years iran has somehow managed to figure out what the red line is not to n provoke military actth the united states. they have often walked t right p edge but never crossed it. but in the past they were dealing with u.s. presidents, whether that was president obama president bush, wr

and iran? >> i think, sandra, it tells us a lot about what the administration thinks the internal political conditions in iran are. the sanctions that the united states has imposed have discouraged other countries from doing business with iran. their he -- economy is in serious trouble. currency weakened and demonstrations in the streets now mounting over time. the regime is becoming increasingly unpopular. the administration will not say that it is attempting to overthrow the government or attempting to get regime change but i think that's exactly what this is all about. when you heard mike pompeo's description in the speech you showed a piece of about the mafia-like behavior of leading powers in iran and the fortunes they've accumulated it is an effort to appeal to the american people you need to throw off the yoke of this government. >> sandra: jack keane was making the case that what we're seeing from president trump today on iran is what we have seen from him since day one on the job. list

if iran were to satisfy u.s. concerns on the nuclear front, we won't take the sanctions off because they have to cease ties with hezbollah and a whole range of activities. we are not party to this agreement. sanctions don't seem to be an effective tool to resolving compliance issues. europe is keeping the agreement. the west is no longer unified. as much as president trump talks about wanting to talk with the iranians, there are no new negotiations going on and no discussion that anyone can identify. i would like to hear the panel say having gotten out of this, how you think one could constructively try to resolve these issues with the iranians. >> i have ideas, but i am the moderator. i will turn it over to you. let me take michael's question and ask you somewhat of a counterfactual. if iran was in violation of section t of the agreement for this nuclear archive because it was seeking nuclear weapons, why not actually take that violation, go to the joint commission, accuse iran of being in violation, give them a

years have been very close to iran so the instability is definitely bad for iran never that that's i think if the summer is over then you're on will be able to again provide a tricity to iraq's southern province. we're talking about busts the. focal point of the protest movement where which accounts for about eighty percent of iraq's oil exports but people are saying we are poor we're discriminated against. who should get this mess is into account is the political establishment who in particular well it has three levels here it has the domestic level of let's say the local level which busts are actually suffering from is that there is a huge conflict between the political parties there in basra. also let us not forget corruption was one of the suffered from the highest the highest corruption in iraq so you can imagine how much people actually seeing not only the oil battle bus but also the seaport that that's already has so many. so many work for the political parties and there is no real jobs. to the to the to the bus or people the second level is actually the political level or let

comes on board that iran is not threatened that iran has some sort of life so in other words is the world versus trump saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . i'm very good to get your analysis. jordanian foreign minister says dozens of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are waiting for the go ahead to pass into syria he has discussed the situation and province with his russian counterpart both men admitted there is cause for serious concern for the area in that our fighting is ongoing as part of the so-called deescalation zone it nears syria's borders with jordan and israel just a moment we'll speak to chance stratford he's in these really occupied golan heights but first let's get in with bernard smith whose job of crossing on the jordan syria border to how died is a situation look there to you bernard well some we know that there are around two hundred seventy thousand displaced people who fled the fighting in daraa province fled towards the borders syria's borders with jordan and israel at least some twenty five thousand people that come behind me that we're not allowed to go and see tho

if iran were to satisfy u.s. concerns on the nuclear front, we won't take the sanctions off because they have to cease ties with hezbollah and a whole range of activities. we are not party to this agreement. six is -- sanctions don't seem to be working to resolving compliance issues. europe is keeping the agreement. so it's not unified any longer. as much as president trump talks about wanting to talk with the iranians, there are no negotiations going on and no discussion that anyone can identify. paneld like to hear the hey -- say having gotten out of this, how you think one could constructively try to resolve these issues with the iranians. ideas, but i am the moderator. i will turn it over to you. counterfactual. if iran was in violation of section t of the agreement for this nuclear archive because it was seeking nuclear weapons, why actually take that violation, go to the joint commission, accuse iran of being in violation, give them a certain amount of time to explain themselves and come clean on the pmd is

with iran, because of the iran agreement, because these things have been verified, we know that iran does not have that same nuclear capability that north korea did. >> right. >> so it's a different kind of country that this president would be going after, and i think many people believe that for him, he may be thinking, in other words, that iran is an easier adversary, and so war could be something that he considers more possible. >> yeah, except they have boots on the ground unlike most of the hot spots in that part of the world that the united states is concerned about. we're going to take that on in a later segment about why he might be instigating things in iran. but while i have you, the president -- that style, on the substance level, he spent a lot of time on fisa, and he basically makes three determinations from what came out, as heavily redacted as it is. he can get information whenever he wants it. he says, one, it was all about the dossier, the fisa application. two, it turns out that it was done in shady fashion, and it wasn't disclosed to the judges where it was coming

a nuclear armed iran. thank you for making clear you intend to roll back iran's aggression, not accommodate it. and thank you, president trump, for standing up to an iranian regime that vows and works to destroy the one and only jewish state. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, president trump's decision was nothing less than a hinge of history. a year ago, iran's regime had the wind at its back. sanctions relief had unleashed the iranian tiger across the middle east, in iraq, syria, lebanon, yemen, gaza, and beyond. and under the dangerous nuclear deal, iran's nuclear ambitions were moving ahead. they were developing advanced centrifuges, developing ballistic missiles, and hiding their secret nuclear archives. day after day, iran was getting closer to the time when all the nuclear deals restrictions would be removed and when it would be free to enrich as much uranium as it wanted. if that day ever comes, iran won't have to sneak in or break into the nuclear weapons club, iran will be able to walk it to th

and iran especially since trump became president but why is all of this happening right now. right well the tensions really go back decades but certainly donald trump campaigned in twenty sixteen on saying that he didn't like the iran nuclear agreement that was negotiated between the united states and iran and other world powers to limit iran's nuclear program and then we saw in may the united states withdrawing from that agreement and certainly there has been sort of this escalation of rhetoric ever since then the feeling being here in the united states that there is somewhat of an opportunity right now given the fact that there are these anti-government protests that's why you saw that very strong speech from the secretary of state mike pompei o sensually this is sort of what the united states has been carefully doing moving forward and that is trying to pressure the top leaders in iran so not only is there the strong rhetoric but we know that there are going to be anti-government broadcasts that are going to be put together by the united states and broadcasting into iran o

against attacking iran, saying "war with iran is the mother of all wars." trump, don't play with the lion's tail. you will forever regret it. amy: rouhani's comments came afafter hours after secretary of state mike pompeo compared iran's leaders to con artists and mobsters during a speech to a largely iranian-american audience in california. this comes as the u.s. is working to restore sanctions against ironic and companies that do business with iran-after trump withdrew the u.s. from the landmark 2015 iran nuclear deal in may. we'll have more on the trump administtition's war of worords with iran later in the broadcast. in afghanistan, at least 14 people were killed and more than 40 others were wounded sunday after a suicide bomber struck near kabul's main airport. the attack ripped through a crowd of supporters of afghan vice president rashid dostum, an ethnic uzbek politician who had just returned to the afghan capital from more than a year of self-imposed exile. dostum was unharmed in the explosion. dostum left afghanistan last year, after the country's

that for us iran's place at the table in terms of international relations is a place that iran needed to come back to the negotiations to be able to start a dialogue with peace in mind and to not cause tense situations that can open the door it's a potential war is a deep down at best you said before that president clinton and president met cronje working together to salvage the iran deal could east tensions and here ups east frontier yeah can macron do this while his russian policies are quite hostile there are sanctions accusations of election meddling cetera. i think that the relations between france and russia have been unsettled for the past number of years there were some mistakes from russia side but also from france aside so i think that there was between france and russia there has been a certain number of troubles in the last couple of years and i wholly approved when emmanuel mcconnell said from the very beginning of his mandate that. it was welcome in france and when he received him at the shuttle and when the talks are resumed as they were meant. i think that this relatio

some iranians into iran were also cautious about trump's off. the bat it was i don't believe trump saying he wants to negotiate with iran without any preconditions i don't have any problem with negotiating with world powers but it's quite suspicious maybe if he came to this decision we should do it possible that listen. if they are true to their word that they want to negotiate with us without any preconditions then at least they should stay in the nuclear deal or let us benefit from european trip but the reality is this man is a liar and we cannot trust his word but i'm a mom or dad didn't we all believe that trump is the enemy of iran and its people but maybe now trump wants to give the uranium people a chance and god willing this will help us get past our disastrous situation. let's now speak to same bus driver who's into iran for us saying despite the fact that president trump's remarks about iran certainly attracted a great deal of attention yesterday we certainly shouldn't expect a meeting between these two countries any time soon. that's

is iran to israel today iran is not an existential threat to israel but it is a strategic three. now let's compare the records of these two countries iran has never attacked a neighbor israel has repeatedly attacked its neighbors iran signed the nonproliferation treaty israel has refused to sign iran submits to inspection but they by the international nuclear energy agency israel refuses to certainly iran has no nuclear weapons israel has between seventy five and four hundred nuclear weapons so israel poses an existential threat to iran now thanks. recently and i want to make for the last forty years israel has conducted a systematic campaign of this information about iran why the lies why the double standards why the poc recy professors like can you say this in a straight face i cannot believe it if you look at the details israel right has been in existential threat ever since ever since its reestablishment and it was reestablished in one thousand four hundred eighty as a historian. in. israel. only out of self defense is defending itself and israel has never ever threatened ano

to inflict economic pain on iran. since we decided to leave the agreement, we've seen european companies, they're worried about retaliation from the u.s., they're pulling out of projects. you have companies like these saying they're not going to invest anything more in the future. the problem is, we don't have the leverage we had four years ago, which is that we were able to reluctantly sort of drag all the europeans with us and impose not global sanctions but sanctions from a large number of developed countries. we don't have that bait anymore, right? so we can inflict some pain. the most important question is, what does china want. so in the case of north korea, it was very clear that china wanted and was nudging north korea in from the cold. right now, iran has a very nice economic position for china which is on the path between china and european and just as they are with pac and a bunch of other countries, they're investing in iran. they don't care what we're doing and they're going to keep paying to build roadin

that for us iran's place of the table in terms of international relations is a place that iran needed to come back to the negotiations to be able to start a dialogue with peace in mind and to not cause tense situations that can open the door it's a potential war they don't impress you said before that president putin and present cronje working together to salvage the iran deal could instantiations and here ups east frontier can macron do this while his russian policies are quite hostile there are sanctions accusations of election meddling cetera. i think that the relations between france and russia have been unsettled for the past number of years there were some mistakes from russia side but also from france aside so i think that there was between france and russia there has been a certain number of troubles in the last couple of years and i wholly approved when emmanuel mcconnell said from the very beginning of his mandate that. it was welcome in france and when he received him at the shuttle and when the talks were resumed as they were meant. i think that this relationship is curren

skepticism in iran about donald trump's offer of talk for president hassan rouhani u.s. president says they could meet at any time without preconditions iran's interior minister has ruled that out saying it isn't trustworthy. results as a presidential election is expected to start trickling in both president and opposition leader nelson chamisa have said they are confident of winning. the syrian military buildup is continuing around the rebel held province activists are reporting shelling on just south of city and in neighboring hammer province a child has died at libya's the only significant territory still held by the rebels but president bashar assad has said retaking the province is his top. israeli politicians will meet again to discuss a new law that would officially define israel as a jewish state it comes amid mounting domestic and international criticism of the law that's being called racist fifty two of its one hundred twenty members of parliament called for a special session which will take place next week president ruben rivlin has already said he will sign t

and war with iran is the mother of all wars. he got a response last night via tweet. >> president trump warning rouhani in all caps, never threaten the united states ever again or you will suffer consequences in which few throughout history have suffered before. we are not a country that will stand for your demented violence and threats. we have nick paton walsh with the latest. live from london this monday morning. an all caps warning to the ir irani iranians, nick. >> reporter: and all caps in this area of the world means something real. how did we get to this? you mentioned the statements from hassan rouhani. one which it was unwise to pull the lion's tail, so to speak. that seems to be reaction to the bid by the united states to try to tie sanctions with iran after pulling out of the nuclear agreement. the u.s. is trying to stop oil trade with iran right now. increasing the economic and military to some degree pressure as well. the problem really is that they seem to be laboring under the belief there is a liberal iranian go

or declaration against iran and iran has the ally. to defend itself when its say is that if it is prevented from exporting its and or noisy it will prevent others from benefiting from their exports now that was taken as a threat to close the strait of headedness and that threat should be taken seriously because closing it doesn't mean physically closing it it means minding it with the hope that one tank will hit a mine and that will frighten other than calves from coming through the gulf or by an iranian threat to damage a tanker or some bank at us which would prevent tank at us from all around the world from coming to the gulf area across the city of our own lives and thus. preventing oil supplies coming out it will have the same effect of on oil prices by raising oil prices possibly one to one twenty one thirty dollars during the crisis but of course prices will go back to normal afterwards so the threat should be a take as seriously and there are other methods iran can use and a member of that there are several tadg methods which i

jcpoa two, iran, trump, and the future of the iran deal. we have kelsey devonport who is one of the top experts on the iran deal, nuclear non-proliferation. andjoined the association 2011 as the junior piece fellow. previously worked for a think tank researching security issues and she is a term member on the council on foreign relations. and we have the director of foreign policies at cato. his interest include grand strategy, facing posture, the rise of china, and the role of status and prestige motivation in international politics. then we will have a research director joining us who formally served with the department. shortly before -- who has openly spoken and advocated for military strikes on the koran. he nominated mike abbe are to be secretary of state. a pale was one of the most fervent critics on the hill of the iran nuclear deal. since then, the administration has withdrawn from the iran deal lot and announced the u.s. would impose sanctions not just on around but secondary sanctions on u.s. allies and other parties to the jcpoa

well sammy whenever donald trump and this white house throw iran a curve ball what iran has been doing is turning to the other signatories of the joint comprehensive plan of action the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and in this case since the u.s. pulled out from the deal iran has placed maximum pressure on its european partners to say to them that it is now up to you to save the deal it is up to you to ignore the american sanctions and it is up to you to continue to deal with us and make sure that we get the economic benefit we were promised for continuing to comply with this deal and that is exactly the play that president hassan rouhani of iran is is running now in a meeting this morning with the new british ambassador to teheran president hasan rouhani made a few very very important points he said that iran does not intend to interfere with any sort of oil shipping in the persian gulf as he said and he said that while that is the case iran still intends to export and sell its own oil no matter what the trumpet ministration says and another point he made was that the trumpet ministrati

-iran relations. we were in a better place couple of years ago, and it has been said to watch it go downhill. host: why is the economy so perilous at the moment, be on energy and oil issues? what else is motivating the decline? guest: the best description from my angle is that the iranian leader class are squeezed between two pressures. one is the trump administration iranians and the government's incompetence to deal with the economy in a proper way so that everything can be controllable and business can go ahead. the reason for the crisis is deep-rooted. budget deficiency, and also, the liquidity. the amounts of cash flow in bureaucracy.he fat and also, i can say, the fact executor of the service department. people are earning their money by selling something and buying something. something, selling it tomorrow, just to earn the difference, to get the commission. this is a country with an economy based on the middlemen, just dealing between two parts of the transaction. this is not a country of prod

us president have for this tough stance on iran well that depends when donald trump left the iran the green ones polled said that's two thirds of the american population were against that decision at the same time of course nobody hears things that the iranian regime is a very good one and most people don't mind probably to put some pressure on that regime and hope that it might somehow go away certainly a majority is not in favor of war but the iranian regime is not very popular but the bottom line is that many people have criticized the discrepancy between donald trump's behavior towards russia which a tech to as through cyber warfare and his approach towards iran which hasn't done anything yet cost and phenomena in washington thank you. and with that you're up to date now on. i'm sara kelly. thanks for watching claims. climate change so. waist length. isn't it time for good news. for go people and projects that are changing the lives that are meant for the better it's up to us to make a difference going to the. w.

but they saw what they themselves paid in kind to discuss that i'm now joined by a senior advisor to iran's supreme leader ali akbar velayati really a great pleasure talking to you thank you very much for your time yes more you're most welcome. who. you know are friendly and. as you may know moscow is a pretty hectic city these days just yesterday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu don't buy to watch football. palestinian leader mahmoud abbas is visiting on the same day as you but none of you tell your visit formally the upcoming meeting in helsinki is this just a coincidence that all your schedules happen to overlap. you know and you can actually reach you know your attendance. in your country and the presence of all the. mention of so. independently only for the talking with the hiring. of oh them president putin i have cherry the messages of or great leader and all for president and president putin if we could try an opportunity for about two hours the discourse of. every shoes including the bilateral relations regional cooperation international cooperation but i'm sure you're ful

iran. barbara: others think it is the onlyay to bring down the government. but everyone hates the travel ban, barring those from countries mr. trump sees a s a security risk. it has become a bit ornely one man, and expensive -- so far he has lost half $1 million. he likes mr. trump's policies, ense tos doesn't make him. >> take the travel ban from the an country, because the iranian people are educated and love america. barbara: there is some confusion about what exactly the policy is after mr. pompeo's speech.en longtime opponts of the regime ynse a window of opportun and are waiting to see how far the administration is willing to b. barbara plett-ushe news, los angeles. laura: for more on thef words between the u.s. and iran, i oke a brief time ago with karim sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for inteational peace. do you feel that there is a rising risk of conflict between the u.s. and iran? karim: theres. you have in president tmp an erratic president who is not nece