iran. train and manage the style that attacked corporate towers in. the six years leading the ringleader was general should be iran's military attache in bahrain the three leaders of the plot escaped from saudi arabia and went to iraq with it have been looking ever since believe us that we captured two years ago in lebanon with iran. even though he's a saudi citizen isn't this harboring and sheltering terrorists. after the iraq here in the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three. or after the attacks against afghanistan in two thousand and one some of them. that ritual board of directors of a car had fled from afghanistan to iran where they have been living in pursuits. the chief of operations while clark. was in iraq in two thousand and three when he gave the order to attack the three housing compounds in riyadh saudi arabia we had the phone conversation on tape that's a fact. iran has subsequently hard potential to be significant iran is providing more than ninety percent of the world'

stance on iran is. basically pretty awful and become a trademark of going to donald trump's republican party but how does that actually compare to the u.s. for a new relationship historically is the kind of aggression interference you know really all that new when you look at the u.s. relationship with iran. well no and in fact that's one thing i try to emphasize in my book. if you go back to nine hundred fifty three in the iranians remember this very well the cia's very first. date i was in iran the cia overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of iran mahmoud moses deck and installed installed the shah of iran a king we then helped i should say the cia helped the shah set up his security services called the sock train the sava could not see type torture techniques and helped the shah rule iran until the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine. very repressive tactics again this is something very much in the memories of the iranian people and something that i think americans need

date i was in iran the cia overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of iran mohammad moses deck installed installed the shah of iran a king we then helped i should say the cia helped the shah set up his security services called the sock train the sava could not see type torture techniques and helped the shah rule iran until the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine. through very repressive tactics again this is something very much in the memories of the iranian people and something that i think americans need to consider when we think about iran and how the iranian government and the iranian people perceive our government. one of the things that that sort of has come up now is that washington the mainstream media really quick to pave the way for a recent protests in iran as you know a budding popular revolution against the government you know as well here it is now you recently been to iran and have seen the situation on the ground for yourself and i want to ask you is the political structure in there really as close to chaos and failure as the establishment's

are trival from that and now it's a personal crusade for many years we're going to hear iran iran and iran against especially for take into consideration where we were last week this time the weekend we were seeing you rainy and and i mean clashes in syria over even. travelling to israel and being you know it was. exactly but for israel there was a clear provocation and clear. test of you know trying to. the borders of israel they were setting very keyboards being very aggressive but also. taking a very deep communication having an f. sixteen jet being full and you know taken down by anti anti by syrian forces that's something that we haven't seen in israel since one thousand nine hundred two so that was a big blow for israeli security and for that more all you know for the pride of israeli air forces so for you know if you put this in the context of iran today and what netanyahu the message he's trying to send is israel has a right to defend itself and he's going to he's going to probably use this speech to prove to the world you bring in connection of course to hezbollah which you k

news live from berlin at the munich security conference escaping condemnation of iran from israel's prime minister. mr zarif. do you recognize there's an italian who confronts the iranian foreign minister over a drone israel shot down in israeli airspace iran's foreign minister hit back calling the speech a quote cartoonish circus also coming up our government and president can do is send thoughts and prayers then it's time for them to be the change that we need. to hear what a state of florida grief turns to anger as survivors of wednesday's high school massacre attended gun control rally close to where the attack took place. and in the bundesliga struggling both birth we're aiming for an upset against table toppers byron munich on saturday we'll show you if they managed it. welcome to the program i'm mary in evanston and it's good to have you with us. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has warned that if israel feels threatened it could take action directly against iran netanyahu made the comments on the final day of the munich security conference and at the end of a week that sa

proxies that are attacking us but against iran itself. syrian kurdish fighters say they have reached an agreement with the damascus government for the syrian army to enter afraid to help repel a turkish offensive turkey launched operation on a branch last month to clear a freeing of kurdish y.p. chief fighters who they regard as terrorist linked to the p.k. k. . iran's leader ayatollah ali hominine has launched an investigation after an awesome on alan's flight crashed killing all sixty five people on board the aircraft disappeared from radar after leaving the capital to draw on. u.s. president donald trump has criticized the f.b.i. for failing to investigate the suspect in wednesday's school shooting seventeen people died when a gunman opened fire in a high school in florida the f.b.i. admitted on friday that agents failed to investigate a tip off about the suspect nicholas cruz who bought the gun used in the shooting legally president trump said the f.b.i. was spending too much time investigating allegations of collusion with russia dur

we thought shi'ism is iranism. and then we recognize that we have, we have shi'ism in iraq. f so tl of saddam hussein really exposed the whole this made it a direct fight between shi'ism and sunnism. (shouting): mi th: leading the pilgrims that day was an ayatollah just back from years of exile in iran. he and other returning exiles q were eager to remake irato another ia islamist state. (chanting): >>ouasically, very early on, have shia political groups thatr become vy important in shia politi, after saddam hussein. groups that had just spent the 2 last0 years learning persian becoming very close friends with iranian leaders, with leaders of the i.r.g.c., and trusting them as much as they trusted anyve ment. (crowd cheering) >> what the 2003 invasion did was give iran an opportunityne that it could r have dreamt of having, which was to bring shiites into power in iraq who were beholden to the iranian state. (man): (crowd chanting) >> smith: the americans did you a favor. they took t saddam hussein. >> oh, yes, you

it's up to iran iran has been trying to change the ground rules mr chairman. what has happened in the region is that if i can show that you see this and some of you in on this and see it and you know yes. this is a brief. a brief description of the middle east as it looks right now i call it the red in the black like the french novel by stand up well the red is isis. the radical sunni is the black is iran and its offshoots the radical shiites as the red compresses as the red compresses. and it will be wiped out very soon from the map of the middle east iran is moving in and we have fought both types of militant islam. israel contributed mightily to. the battle against the battle against isis by giving unmatched militant military intelligence that has prevented dozens of terrorist attacks in dozens of countries and we are absolutely determined to prevent iran from creating a new base in the west i call it isis west obviously egypt is fighting it as well to prevent isis from shifting its base from. iraq and syria into the sinai or into somalia and to africa and

administration, after the iran deal, additional sanctions were placed on a -- on iran that were not related to nuclear. does not relieve the need to address the other issues. now we hear a lot about the sunset of the agreement. i want to make it clear that this agreement does not fundset. there are restraints on iran's nuclear activity that do go away, however to core of the agreement, the most important thing are the verification measure put in place. what are we most concerned about? irane end it is not what is telling us what they are doing, it is covert activity. transparency, the ability to go anywhere in the country in a short timeframe to look at anything suspicious is what is critical. that never sunsets. this is a permanent, unique, verification measure. that is the strength of the agreement. if we break the agreement while to be incknowledged compliance we would never get that back, and that would be a terrible blow to ours and our allies security needs. host: massachusetts. caller: good morning. you are doing a great job, guys. i would like to say, you were part of the wo

iran out some on the. domestic airline of iran well it flies a lot in iran is a very mountainous country it tries a lot in difficult terrain so it is more exposed to risk just by virtue of the kind of country that iran is but let's talk a little bit about the rescue operation and the challenges obviously it being in the mountainous region means that all in itself be incredibly hard what needs to be done to make sure that the search happens as quickly as possible as well that they have located the wreckage as i understand it at the moment it has been difficult and. i think everybody has been confirmed death but confirmed dead so there is there are no. there's no rescue no need to rescue recovery of bodies yes or no risk you know what the. the authorities in iran have to do is to find the black boxes the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder which. will probably work and despite this rush result quite. quite unimportant. and from that which look whether what i said earlier about it looks like a

proxies but iran itself if if. need to be now the foreign minister of iran absolutely dismissed those remarks as cartoonish i have heard other longtime israel watchers here at the conference saying that was vintage netanyahu the fact is he's under pressure at home that was at least partly intended for domestic consumption i think when you listen to what we heard from foreign minister kerry in this past panel following mr netanyahu is remarks and interestingly enough even from russia's head of information and communication who came to mr kerry's side that hasn't been common here in the unit in the past couple of days in fact we've seen a lot of tension and conflict between russia and the u.s. but in this case the russian official as well saying you know what there is no military solution here there is no military option if for example the iran agreement is undermined if it is torpedoed we will once again see enormous pressure to bomb iran that this was these were the words of mr kerry also the words of mr bush pushe

iran had been internationally isolated by the war.ar but six yebefore, iran couldve hatopped it. you had a chance to bring that ecr to an end in 1982. and yet you madeions at the top of the government to continue the war. >> no, no, no, no. it was important that they confess. our condition was that, no, we do not stop the war unless you confess that saddam hussein is started this war. >> smith: was it a mistake to reject the ceasefire? >> n no, in 1988, we had a resolution, 598, which addressed iran's major demand. that iraq was responsible to initiate this war. at was very important for us. >> smith: but a lotta lives were lost in the interim. >> it's the unfortunate situation. >> smith: for that principle... >> thaquestion that the iranian people need to ask the international community. why didn't anybody in theat intenal community say a word about the iraqi use of chemical weapons? i believe the international community owes iran an explanation for its disastrous behavior. an doesn't owe anybody any explanation for defending itself. >> from iran came a statement reportedly from

morning iran brazenly violated israel's sovereignty israel holds iran and its syrian post responsible for today's aggression we will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty and our security the allies of syria and enemies of israel celebrated the downing of the warplanes. fighters from the pro iranian hezbollah group gathered on the border between lebanon and israel as israeli soldiers looked on. the iranian president hassan rouhani condemned the israeli action in syria. yet if one country thinks it can get desirable results by posting terrorism obama putting neighboring countries than it is making a mistake we are ready to defend the security of the region and we call on all other countries to cooperate in this nation boss the loss of the jet comes as israel acknowledged for the first time and i tack on iranian targets in syria. earlier i spoke to the abuse middle east correspondent tanya kramer interest and i asked her how serious this confrontation is. indeed it is a one of the most serious situations we have seen in the north for the past years one very sig

iran asmer on the domestic airline of iran well it flies a lot in iran is a very mountainous country it tries a lot in difficult terrain so it is more exposed to risk just by virtue of the kind of country that iran is is what the. the authorities in iran have to do is to find the black boxes the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder which will probably be working despite the fact that this crash was obviously quite. quite an impact. two palestinians have been found dead after an escalation in tension on the gaza israeli border it follows an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers in the area israel launched a series of ground of ass trikes on a number of sites in the southern gaza strip its military blames hamas for saturday's explosion several palestinians were injured in the israeli raids israel says that the dead palestinians were shot trying to cross the border. i think you are today's incident on the gaza strip border was severe we were responding appropriately i send my wishes for a quick recovery to the wounded let's go live now to our series but its worth i

iran has made more gains in the last decade under the obama administration in terms of advancing its had germany which is not in the united states' interest or israel's interest than they've made in the last thousand years and three i'll quote a former nato commander who said the russians have weaponized refugees pile them into europe allowed isis to infiltrate and have done more to destabilize our partners in europe and the warsaw pact ever did so i think all of those. with respect that's just pure propaganda in my opinion. picture react to that because i mean we could spend the entire program deconstructing only that one small part of that segment simply don't have to worry it's going to essentially michael's finds himself in the spot why because he has to explain he has to respond to to tucker carlson the simple question. assad is fighting isis the united states officially so that it's fighting isis so why is the united states. forces instead of isis the simple question no simple lesson well one that we got a non answer we got it we got to do exactly that inflection it was it was

and iran was a very different place. it was before the revolution society was different then in iran it wasn't like today no one cared about islam not. baba he said the shah's government tried to ban women from wearing head scarves and attempt to replace iranian culture with western values all part of a plan by foreign governments she says to control iran and iran's natural resources so khamenei is message of independence she says resonated with many people. he said there shouldn't be any poverty in iran he meant we should take care of poor people there should be justice everyone should be equal well many of the iranians welcomed this bubble you survived the nuclear bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki in world war two and lived through the iran iraq war that started almost immediately after the revolution when iraqi forces led by saddam hussein invaded iran bubblies son solomon farci volunteered to fight and was killed he was nineteen years old. decades later she still struggles to talk about it but says even knowing the

news live from berlin and at the munich security conference a scathing condemnation of iran from israel's prime minister. mr zarif. do you recognize there's. been a minute on yahoo confronts the iranian foreign minister over a drone is were all shot down and israeli airspace iran's foreign minister hit back calling the speech a quote cartoonish circus also coming up. our government and president can do is send thoughts and prayers then it's time for victim to be the change that we need to feel bad for it turns to anger and survivors of wednesday's high school massacre attended gun control rally close to where the attack took place. and on the run from nazis in modern day europe the first german entry at this year's berlin film festival transfers the plot of a famous novel to the french city of marsay we have a sneak preview for you of christian pencil's new film transit. and. welcome to the program i'm mary in evanston it's good to have you with us. tensions in the middle east have taken center stage at the munich security conference with israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu describi

and it was at the period when iran was testing a lot of different systems it was also when iran before jcpoa et cetera i think they were trying to advertise their capabilities. the emirates have received scuds from north korea. they may have a base where they have them an may be stockpiled somewhere. they have just a small number of them and i have no qlad they would use them for. you know, presumably if they're attacked by ballistic missiles they would launch them against the iranians in retaliation. but not going to really do much. much damage -- you know they kind of lack the range to hit anything but -- the base right across the gulf from there and whatever it's called. so yeah, the egyptians you know they've had missile development programs since the 50s, and they launched how many? go ahead and half a dozen scuds at the israelis and -- 67 or 73 -- 73. yeah. so yemenis had a lot of -- scuds that they purchased from first the soviets or were given to them by the soviets during civil war and after. ... israel, which i found somewhat interesting because israel doesn't really test the

proxies that are attacking us but against iran itself what iran's foreign minister hit back saying that terror and wants to forge closer ties with its neighbors and that israel is the aggressor in the region from israel's invasion and subsequent aggressions under been on its eagle occupation of palestine and it's almost they'd be eagle incursions into syrian air space to attempt to create cartoonish images to blame others for his own strategic blunders or maybe to evade the domestic crisis that treaty there is hashem is at that conference in munich what are we to make of that this extraordinary scenes we saw at the conference today. an indication of what we might see in the near future in the region basically further escalation and the iranian foreign minister. was that if these harsh words against the israelis the saudis are describing them as clients of the analysis of america saying that basically what has happened in the region over the last three decades is a succession of mishaps missteps and blunders by the americas and. in the region blaming them for everything that has been hap

the iran nuclear deal so in quote its unleashed a dangerous iranian tiger. you want aggression will be shipped. to congress. the nuclear agreement with iran is brought the countdown has begun on the ground during. the russian. the sanction relief that they do provided does not moderated iran does not make them more moderate internally and it's not made more moderate externally interact it's only a dangerous during interrogation in a region and beyond netanyahu has never been a fan of the a new nuclear deal that was signed back in two thousand and fifteen and on multiple times over the years he has called iran a great danger well of course talking about a deal in which to iran signed off to limit its uranium enrichment in response for financial sweeteners i think this do is a bad. deal now what we hear today from the israeli prime minister is again urging the international community to slap more sanctions on tehran he has called the country the greatest threat to the world and he drew the parallel between the nineteen thirty eight munich agreement that failed

iran, first of all. i think it is fair to say the rest of the world is somewhat confused and, indeed, alarmed by your policy — that is us policy — towards iran today. can you try and assure me that you know what you are doing? well, i'm not sure i would make that general statement. you know, i'm not sure that when you say "the rest of the world", i know who you are talking about. ok, i will be clearer — fair point, i will be clear. the european union, the russians, even the iaea, the nuclear watchdog authority, all believe the us is mistaken, fundamentally mistaken in its current approach to the nuclear deal with iran which, of course, was struck by the 0bama administration amongst the other great powers with iran, and which donald trump 110w seems intent upon tearing up. well, let me offer that in the countries that i most often deal with — israel, the sunni gulf countries, saudi arabia, the emirates and others — there's no confusion at all. and in fact, they are greatly reassured by this admi

howard you characterize this in syria vis-À-vis iran. whatever trying to do too iran and syria? >> are broad u.s. government objective is to limit iran's influence in syria. as we have seen, they are attempting to our unmotivated fighters that could pose threats to other vital partners here we of interest in trying to limit their influence and activities. >> i want to say that if there's any influencing gaining in syria we need to limit the perhaps some clarity how would you look at our strategy i characterize it as teacher, assure, and compete. we have to have capabilities in place to deter the ballistic capabilities against her partner and assure that they can erase their declare weapons capability. we have to assure our partners when it line up our coalition ours is much more capable. so continue to develop those relationships is important. showing our partners will be there. not just militarily but with other instruments of power. this is pushing back and going back on their narrative and in the areas we must preventing them from moving their weapons and other things that po

this is deja vu news live from berlin a three way confrontation brewing between israel syria and iran syrian forces shot down an israeli fighter jet they say it was one of eight targeting iran back to dish and inside syria israel's prime minister says his country was defending itself against a violation of its airspace by an iranian drone our jerusalem correspondent will bring us more also coming up. kim jong un's sister tells the south korea's president he's invited to a summit in the north korean capital and monday in says he'd be willing to go to pyongyang if conditions are right. it's good to have you with us israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country will not allow iran to establish a military presence in syria this after an israeli jet was shot down by syrian forces on its way home from a bombing mission it was one of a group of planes targeting iran back positions inside syria israel says it was provoked a charge denied by syria and iran. a burning israeli f. sixteen shot down by the syrian air force both pilots ejected one was seriously wounded. israel says th

i think both russia and iran support us to remain. stand i was try to i stand eyes sushi and are going to sign eyes also geneva in the future but i could see that. a solution may maybe come up like federal of syria north kurds that's what so high there american also weaken the is there if that's will not work out for the american. and the center part of the new syria but i think i said will lose power or he should not control these federal state in the future that's the way i see as a solution but i said we'll stay there for a while till we got might be because there is no political framework really now where it's going to have the right solution. i mean the syrian government has managed to take over an area which is about thirty kilometer from mount hermon and over the past few months the whole narrative was about what is going to happen in places like egypt but what we're seeing now is talks about potential confrontations with the fight goes back to areas like that and is this something which has been closely monitored by the israel

iran asmer on the domestic airline of iran well it flies a lot in iran is a very mountainous country applies a lot in difficult terrain so it is more exposed to risk just by virtue of the kind of country that iran is what the. the authorities in iran have to do is to find the black boxes the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder which will probably be working despite the fact that this crash was obviously quite. quite an impact. two palestinians have been shot and killed by israeli forces in gaza their deaths have added to an escalation in tension on the gaza israeli border following an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers in the area israel launched a series of ground in air strikes on a number of sites in the southern gaza strip its military blames hamas for saturday's explosion several palestinians were injured in the israeli raids israel says the dead palestinians were shot trying to cross the border. today's incident on the gaza strip border was severe we respond appropriately or so my wishes for a quick recovery to the wounded. then it's worth is in west j

yet another country involved in this, iran and lebanon are involved in this issue and iran has always been involved in lebanon on one side or another. what we are seeing is tensions rising and they try to rein in iran, and the americans have been upset that russia is not helping with that. you have many different countries in a complex diplomatic situation. that is one side of the story but in the new york times, you have trade relationships with a front—page headline, the saudis are looking for oil as they lose dominance? they we re oil as they lose dominance? they were always regarded as the swing producer, the one who set the prices. they wanted to cut back on oil production, they turned off the ta ps oil production, they turned off the taps a bit and the price went up. when they wanted more money, they opened the taps for oil and the boosted prices that way. they have lost their dominance to the united states. saudi no longer needs to sell oil. they have plenty of their own, and america is now the swing producer. the higher the oil price, the more shale production. they are busy

israeli territory he warns iran not to test israel's results also on the program. south korea celebrates more gold in the will winter olympic short track speed skating choice meaning joan bringing home bringing the home crowd rather along when she took the lead and held it in the fifteen hundred meter of it look at you up to date with the latest on the games. and i'm christopher springer good to have you with us tensions in the middle east have taken center stage at the munich security conference in a speech a few minutes ago israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu labeling iran the world's greatest threat and warning his country would act against tehran if needed it and you know who accuse the iranian foreign minister mohammad serif of quote lying with eloquence he also held up a piece of what he said was in a rainy and drone shot down in israeli aspace to drive home his point. iran also denies that it committed an act of aggression against israel last week that it sent a drone into our airspace to threaten our people well. here's a piece of that iranian drone o

and we will act if necessary not just against iran's proxies that are attacking us but against iran itself he followed up with a dramatic flourish that caught all the delegates by surprise brandishing a piece of wreckage from an iranian drone shot down an israel air space last week. and he had this message for iran's foreign minister mohammad javert. i bought it here so you can see it for yourself mr zarif do you recognize this you should be george you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of her own do not israel's resolve the man who netanyahu called an eloquent liar iran's foreign minister refused to rise to the israeli bait he preferred instead to outline a new plan to dampen down rising tensions in the region i prevent more conflict in the middle east. iran believes that our security in the persian gulf requires a french regional security architecture we believe in and how proposed creating what we call a strong region rather than a strong man in the region. at a question and answer session those are if expressed his frustration at israeli attempts to undermine the deal iran

iran us among the domestic airline of iran well it flies a lot in iran is a very mountainous country it tries a lot in difficult terrain so it is more exposed to risk just by virtue of the kind of country that iran is is what the. the authorities in iran have to do is to find the black boxes the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder which will probably be working despite the fact that this crash was obviously quite. quite an impact. yes president all trump has turned to twitter to criticize the f.b.i. for failing to investigate the suspect in wednesday's school shooting seventeen people died when a gunman opened fire on a high school in florida their b. i admitted on friday that agents failed to investigate a tip off about nicholas cruz who bought the gun used in the shooting illegally president trump said the f.b.i. was spending too much time investigating allegations of collusion with russia during the twenty sixteen election campaign. plus revelations that the f.b.i. received a tip off last month that the suspect had access to guns and quote a desire to kill people a

proxies that are attacking us but against iran itself well iran's foreign minister hit back saying that terror on wants to forge closer ties with its neighbors and that israel is the aggressor in the region from israel's invasion and subsequent aggressions under been on its eagle occupation of palestine and it's almost they'd be illegal incursions into syrian air space to attempt to create cartoonish images to blame others for its own strategic blunders or maybe to evade the domestic crisis that treaty life out of unocal does here is how is that security conference hashim an extraordinary exchange of words today there in munich . indeed in these ready prime minister benjamin netanyahu it is clear that israel won't allow iran to maintain and militant permanents miti presence inside syria that much concern that iran is trying to build a naval base not far from haifa all the mediterranean over the same time they're trying to provide a significant assistance to hezbollah and this is considered by the israeli government red line let's listen to what netanyahu had to say. nowhere are we ron's

iran in syria. something that would have been extraordinarily serious, that would have known no doubt drawn in the united states very quickly spread far beyond syria. so the atmosphere in which these two men traded allegations is very much more heated and tense, and we need to watch this situation carefully. how great has been the failure, would you say, among the people you talk to him diplomatic and military circles, that we could accidentally stumble into some kind of real serious conflict involving israel and iran as a result of the mess that is syria right now? the big picture, in the mess that is syria as you put it, the war is moving into another phase. the islamic state group has been largely defeated, and the syrian government has largely defeated its level opponents. the syrian government has been a winner, but iran has been a winner, too. it is very much militarily in support of the syrian government, which means that iran is now ina government, which means that iran is now in a position

directed against iran they have pushed russia and the rawness of i'm sure iran and china closer together russian the russian government years ago wouldn't have wanted to be caught dead in bed with the iran now they find they have so many geopolitical interests in common and they can deal with them so professionally compared to the westerners that you know we're looking at another de facto strategic partnership it's interesting that when you have to when you compare maybe russia's relationship with the rand and how it has to negotiate honest baby step level with turkey for example it's in fact the russian relationship both was iran and was it really could you not theory. of course it's boom or but it's there is growing in the one nine hundred ninety s. when the west and you see olson was the president of russia it wasn't because he also was intimidated and he wasn't it wasn't because his administration was sound that somehow against washington it wasn't it was because it was an issue of the lesion ship the united states pushing back semitic and wanted to be the only superpower in the worl

today in iran, a leading ayatollah warns if israel launches any military attack inside iran, tel aviv will be razed to the ground. how much of that picture did you get into when you were doing your reporting for this documentary? >> we cover a lot of territory. we start the in 1979 with the revolution in iran and the reaction then of the saudis to having a cleric take over and declare that the gulf monarchs that were allied with the u.s. needed to be toppled. we looked at their reaction. they doubled down on their religion. out of that came al qaeda, which eventually became isis. again, it's gotten hotter and hotter. i don't think at any time the rhetoric has been any more pitched than it is right now with threats going back and forth. now israel being very much involved as iran has moved into syria, has -- seems to be constructing missiles there for hezbollah. they are looking at the golan heights, a contested piece of territory that syria and iran would love to take a nick at. i don't know where the cooler heads are right now. >> you know, it is interesting. obviously, saudi arabia

the podium and beauty issuing a direct threat to iran israel iran. to put a noose of terror around. we will act without hesitation to defend ourselves. and we will act if necessary not just against iran's proxies that are attacking us but against iran itself he followed up with a dramatic flourish that caught all the delegates by surprise brandishing a piece of wreckage from an iranian drone shot down an israel airspace last week. and he had this message for iran's foreign minister mohammad javert i bought it here so you can see it for yourself mr zarif do you recognize this. you should be george. you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of her own do not israel's resolve the man who netanyahu called an eloquent liar iran's foreign minister refused to rise to the israeli bait he preferred instead to outline a new plan to dampen down rising tensions in the region i prevent more conflict in the middle east. iran believes that our security in the persian gulf requires a french regional security architecture we believe in and how proposed crea

iran and syria i think both made it certainly iran has made explicit that i think americans do not leave voluntarily they will be made to leave syria they've said the same about the american presence in iraq i think that in the northern part of the middle east there is a clear determination i don't mean. this is a conspiracy i'm just saying there's a clear consensus a view that the american presence in syria and in iraq is going to be disturbing to the stability of the. it's upcoming in this temple we're going to have the the russians the turks in the iranians now those three parties had their differences when it comes to syria but they are all united on one issue they do not want american presence illegal under international law presence in syria is that enough to keep them together no i mean it's more complicated but i think the relationship between russia and iran although there are a long history of disagreements but it is a real strategic interest partly because of the financial war they need both russia and iran need if you like commercial depth in order to survive any sanctions so

i might add, in the obama administration, after the iran deal, additional sanctions were placed on iran for reasons that were not nuclear. the deal takes the nuclear weapons threat off the table. it does not relieve us of the need to address all the other issues. the second issue is that now we hear a lot about the sunset of the agreement. i want to make it very, very clear, this agreement does not sunset. there are restrains on iran's nuclear activity that good away, some in ten years, some in 15 years the like. however, the core of the agreement, the most important thing, are their verification measures put in place in the agreement. after all, let's face it, what are we most concerned about? the enit's not about what iran is telling us what they're doing. it's about covert activity. transparency, the ability to go anywhere in the country, with a short time frame, to look at anything suspicious, that is what is critical. that never sunsets. this is a permanent, unique, verification measure. that is the strength of the agreement. i we were to break the agreement while iran is acknowled