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 preconditions 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 this conference than many others who have been invited bobo. but we're not conveni

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

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

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.

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

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

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

. >> 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

agreement,s supposedly to go into effect with iran leaves with iran the option to develop nuclear capabilities at will. dangerous.ly >> the deal said iran must stop enriching uranium and above five percent. worth billions of euros to the country. iaea.n is at the what has iran accomplished? how does it make it harder for them to build a nuclear bomb? first of all, they have to ad to enrich uranium certain purity level and it has disconnected certain centrifuges . means is thathis iran will be less able to enrich uranium further where it could be used to make nuclear weapons. iran has also agreed to stop .ork on a heavy reactor there have been little details about this facility and concerns from france that it could also be used for a weapon. >> there have been complaints in the past that iran hasn't cooperated with authorities. they aresatisfied doing everything to stay in line with this agreement? they say it will also double the number of infected. make sure they are continuing to comply with the agreement. there are other concerns that they want to address. there are suspicions iran may hav

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

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 issue that it's in the interests of both to us and iran 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 that that 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 se

it was a phenomenon in iran. areroved that the iranians 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. think preses 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. mansour,e now is riyad the permanent observer to the united nations for palestine. i am pleased to welcome him. where are we? >> one should admire the tenacity and determinat

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

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

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

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

and iran taking on a new tone. president obama addressing how he'll make sure the countries continue to make diplomatic progress. >> i think it's because we have more young people. i don't know if it's true, but that's the feel i get. it feels more private. >> a part of the u.s. that the rest of the country can learn from, a look at what it keeping the economy booming in the north-west. >>> hi there, good to have you with us here on al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton. >>> president obama is pledging to make 2014 a year of action. the president pitched a new agenda during his state of union address. he promised to modify the tax code, spend more to rebuild roads and bridges. the president urged a divided congress to work together and is willing to get things done through executive orders. patty culhane has more on monday's speech. >> mr speaker, the president of the united states. [ cheering and applause ] >> tens of millions of americans spent their evening watching the u.s. president out line his priority. the

no doubt talks with iran our historic. i'm a historian by training which means i get paid to predict the past, and they use only get that right about 50% of the time so not going to put a wager on what might happen with the iran talks now. it is dangerous, however, to confuse hope with change or to replace advocacy, to place analysis with advocacy. what we see with regard to iran is the end of the beginning rather than the beginning of the end. let me conclude simply by saying if history is any guide, the perils of engaging rogue regimes is faster because our high, and success is far from certain. thank you very much. [applause] >> we have plenty of times under and -- we have plenty of time for questions. i'll call on you to know and wr, claudia, if you could stand up and identify yourself for the camera and i will repeat that. >> thank you. claudia with the foundation for defense democracy. to questions from one specific. you mentioned the north korea drew conclusions from operation desert storm. what were they? more gene

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

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

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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

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

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

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

they say that it is essential for iran to bring an end to the violence. >> i believe strongly that iran needs to be a part of the solution to the syrian crisis. >> iran is an important ally to syrian president bashar al-assad. now, a group called the islamic front, an alliance of forces rejected the talks. if a breakthrough is reached, it will be harder to implement on a battlefield. violence in the war-rattled nation continues. we have more. >> government forces continue to hit targets in different parts of aleppo. the weapon of joys is barrels filled with explosives. the distribution is vast and people continue to die. act visits and residents are keen to find survivors. the army backs coalition going to the talks, provided they end the syrian regime. we support a solution guaranteeing a political traction of authority, fulfilling the syrian people's demands. we ask the government going to geneva to halt the goals. bashar al-assad, and his group must leave power, he must have no role in syria's future. a transitional government will be formed. prisoners should be released. especially

and iran. kikimberly hellcut, al jazeera. >>> the two men in this video claim to be part of the group that killed 31 people in volgograd. russians said they are looking for as many as four women said to be blad widows, believed to be at or near sochi. al jazeera's paul brennan is there. >> reporter: the olympic train rolled into town exactly as planned. the welcome was deliberately subdued. just meters from this spot less than a month ago 18 people were killed in a suicide bomb blast. a second attack a day later took the total dead to 34. torch bearer andre karpov is a native of volg graf, holding the torch he told me of the when asked about his city his words dry up with sadness. >> at three weeks ago, i guess like the whole country, we feel like a -- what pain in our soul. >> volgograd station still bay the signs. by staging the olympic torch relay as planned the city cements its resistance. that said, the release of another jihaddist video, underlines the fact that the threat is very real. >

there are islamic revolutionary guards, inside iran. >> iran is not going to be at the table. it was clear there was not going to be any transitional government. what could come out of the talks if all those things are true? >> well i guess as one headline in one of the stories today said, you know, the question is not will the talks fail but how will they take. >> oh, wow. >> i think that's a good way of putting it, simply because of all the obstacles. nevertheless it is good that at least members of the government, syrian government officials will be talking to the opposition and that is very important. however there are so many obstacles to any sort of agreement. >> having said that is there anything that could be considered some or the of victory that could come out of the talk, anything? >> i think ultimately, we are probably going to see a syria that is partitioned. i mean let's not forget that even now, the rebels control parts of the country. the dynamics in the war have shifted as of several months ago in favor of the current government. but nonetheless, syria today i

doesn't iran want stability in iraq? doesn't iran want stability in syria? perhaps question work with them. lo and behold the president actually said this. there's a probing effort and investigation to see if maybe impossible to come to some kind of understanding with them. and the second factor that drives us is the focus of the administration primarily on the al qaeda threat. when you look at the region you say the major threat to the united states from the middle east. women, it's al qaeda and the sunny -- and perhaps question reach an accommodation with the iranians on that. whether a lot of decisions made willie nilly or a strait go reach a talk with iran, it doesn't matter. it represents -- traditional containment as we have seen it. traditionally we saw ourselves as a leader of an alliance. we were alied with the vertical powers. in trying to advance interest against the interest of iran and its allies. the israelis today are much more -- their interest line up almost perfectly with the horizontal powers. we have moved very much against what the israe

he focused on north korea and iran and the actions he then took to have those sanctions on iran as a result we now have the toughest sanctions on iran ever imposed on any country anytime. it tightens the noose on iran with the bargaining table in geneva. third platform the third element is reducing the existing nuclear arsenal. we don't think much about this. we used to have 30,000 it is now been reduced weeder legal fate of these weapons but they were threatening into ways. as long as he maintain huge arsenals we give the incentive to other countries to build up their own arsenals but to require them if they're so valuable or a central it is a relationship long recognized between herself and this weapon that is the danger of accidental use or miscalculation. just two quick examples of b-52 bombers on a routine mission flying from my not airforce base in north dakota carrying six cruise missiles flying to dash air force base in the we see anna to eliminate these missiles they were put out of commission. they accidentally loaded not conventional cruise missiles and nuclear arms there

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

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

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 it's intent to hopeful 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 so i think it's wrong to imagine that somehow u.s. foreign policy in the middl

saudi arabia has an iran problem. iran does meddle, especially in the eastern province, but saudi arabia's biggest problems are internal and they have to do with issues the saudis have to solve. so i accept the caveat. the sunni world is convinced that iran has its hands at their throats. i mean, if you travel -- i spent a week in abu dhabi and dubai

they want measures against iran that will prevent iran from interfering in their internal affairs. it to go to war, destroy the nuclear program back out or to --ieve by diplomatic means >> where do you put the odds? to get intoctant the betting game because i would not have that that we got as far as we already have. produce and awill grill met -- an agreement? the odds are less than even. they have agreed to real concrete verifiable accountable measures. a small part of the total. >> a shocking story of violence from the central african republic. now it is showing an active cannibalism. some people seem to congratulate the christian man for carrying out this act. a warning, there are some very disturbing images. >> the winners in this conflict, delirious with victory. the christians were victims and now they are on top. a charred and dismembered body is dragged through the street. one was at the head of the mob he was in a blind fury that day. muslims killed his pregnant , theyhis sister-in-law broke down the door and cut the baby in half. i promised i would get my revenge. reveng