who's on iran we disagree on the j.c. but i believe we can come up with something that can deal with the fundamental issue of the j.c. which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that aren't included. trump again suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability and security following the defeat of eisel the countries that. are there that you all know very well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump had agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs on steel of aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have the very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is still in a limb in him it doesn't come from europe and not even from friends can really help it al-jazeera at the white house with the u.s. and france trying to resolve their differences there is no disagreement over iran's next news as we mentioned earlier its foreign m

they say that iran can't be trusted because in the 1990s and two thousands iran lied about the nuclear program. and it is a estimate that iran is cataloging the past nuclear program. >> even after the deal, iran continued to preserve and expand the nuclear weapons for future use. why would a terrorist regime hide and meticulously cat log its secret nuclear files if not to use them at a later date. >> reporter: while netanyahu implied it. he did not lay out a case of iran starting the nuclear program. the secretary praised the overall deal. >> it is written with the assumption that iran would try to cheat. so the verification much what is in there is pretty robust. >> reporter: iran's foreign minister mocked netanyahu for the speech writing on twitter. the boy who can't stop crying wolf is at it again. undeterred by the cartoon fiasco. you can only fool some of the people some of the times. >> the debate over the nuclear agreement comes as tensions are heating up between syria and israel and iran. israeli jets struck at iranian targets inside of syria. >> bret: thank you. president trum

those backers are iran and russia. the administration has said on multiple occasions that russia and iran are complicit in assad's chemical weapons attacks. so i just ask another question here. does the administration support imposing costs on the russians and the iranians for their role in the assad regime's war crimes against its own people? >> mr. chairman, the administration has taken steps with respect to both iran, iranian supported proxy forces, notably hezbollah, and with respect to russia for engagement variously in the kind of proliferation, criminal behaviors, and actions both in syria and outside syria that you reference. and we will continue to act aggressively to use the authorities available to us to that end. >> one area that i think is, if i could just close here, i hope that the senate, with a lot of pressure from the administration and us, will move quickly on the seizure civilian protection act, the seizure syrian civilian protection act, in order to put this into law. and i think that that will hel

if we are going to counter iran's abuses, iran's terrorism, iran's threats to our troops and our national security interests, we must work with our partners around the globe. we will stand together against repression and the violation of human rights. we will stand together against religious persecution. we will stand together for the rule of law and democratic values, and taking hostages and violating the most fundamental values that cut to the core of our dignity as human beings is unacceptable to this congress and to members of the international community. i urge all of my colleagues to stand up to iran's rogue regime, to stand up for human rights and for the people of iran, to stand with the levinsons and the other families whose loved ones are missing from their lives, and to fight for their return home by supporting this bill. please support h.r. 4744, and together we will stand for basic human rights. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. royce: i yield three minutes to the gentlelady from florida, ileana ros

iran lied. big time. , i ranigning the deal intensified efforts to hide it see clear -- secret nuclear files. iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location. kept thehere they archives. right here. if you knew where it was. very few. a few israelis. from the outside this was an innocent looking compound. it looks like a dilapidated warehouse. containedide it archives locked in massive files. ago in a great intelligence achievement israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults. here is what we got. pages. files on 183 cds. seeything you are about to is an exact copy of the iranian material. incriminating presentations. incriminating blueprints. -- criminalize it incriminating photos. incriminating videos, and more. we have shared this with the united states. united states can vouch for its authenticity. we will also share it with other countries and the international .tomic energy we have known for years i ran a secret nuclear weapons program. it was aove compre

iran lied. big time. after signing the deal, iran intensified efforts to hide its secret nuclear files. in 2017, iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in southern tehran. orabad district. this is where they kept the archives. right here. few iranians knew where it was. very few. and also a few israelis. from the outside, this was an innocent looking compound. it looks like a dilapidated warehouse. but from the inside, it contained iran's secret archives locked in massive files. actually, they are bigger than this. a few weeks ago, in a great intelligence achievement, israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults. here is what we got -- 55,000 pages. another 55,000 files on 183 cd's. everything you are about to see is an exact copy of the iranian material. you may want to see the originals. they are in a very safe place. here is what we found -- incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos

with respect to iran in syria. we certainly identify and threatened to challenge, not just israel but to the reason as a whole. we have identified those concerns not only an hour dialogue with israel and the israeli security -- >> i apologize, i do not wish to had a fewut i just questions. the first one is, does the united states rely on russia to influence iran and the reason -- region? >> we have made clear to moscow that we have seen no region -- reason, even by action or inaction, what russia is doing in syria is a threat. >> if russia is unable to provide assurance that the syrian regime, or other iranian forces will cease violence in these areas, what is the next option for the united states? what do we do then? >> with respect to russia i will defer to my colleague. athave a variety of means our disposal which are under constant and active consideration to try to bring about the kinds of mitigation of harm and risk that we are all seeking in syria. those decisions lie in many cases with the president himself

iran was required by the i.a.e.a. to come clean by the nuclear deal to come clean to the international atomic energy agency about its nuclear program this was an explicit condition for implementing the nuclear deal iran has to come clean so in december two thousand and fifteen the i.a.e.a. published its final assessment of what it called the military aspects of iran's nuclear program this is the report this was iran's chance to fully come clean to the i.a.e.a. they could tell the truth they could say that we had this program the secret program it's over and we showed that it doesn't exist we destroyed the material here's what iran actually told the. it said. iran denied the existence of a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device and specifically denied that this specifically denied the existence of the amount planned. the material proves otherwise that iran authorized initiated and funded project ahmad a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device here's

first, iran. you said once again in front of the press what your position was during the campaign, as well as the president of the united states. not a mystery. we did not have the same starting positions, stances, and neither you nor i have a habit of changing stances are going with the wind. that being said, i can say that we have had a very frank discussion on back, just the two of us. you consider that the iranian deal, the one negotiated in 2015 with iran, is a bad deal. for a number of months, i have been saying this was not sufficient deal but it enabled it until 2025 to have some control over their nuclear activities. wish for now to work on a new deal with iran. need, and i believe that on that, our discussions allowed us to shed light on the convergence is that we need to cover four topics. to block nuclear activity of iran until 2025. this was feasible thanks to the agreements. the second is to make sure there is no iranian nuclear activity. the third, to be able to put an end to the ba

iran is trying to gobble up one country after another. iran must be stopped. its quest for nuclear bombs must be stopped. it's aggression must be stopped. we are committed to stopping it together. i was very much encouraged once again by the steadfast support of the united states for our israel.- four our bond is special, it is based on shared values of democracy, freedom and the quest for security and peace. i can say that today, america and israel are closer than ever before and i have no doubt that we will glow -- will grow even closer in the years ahead. i want to welcome you back to israel, mr. secretary. it is a pleasure to see you and i wish you the best of luck in your important mission. >> thank you. good afternoon. it is a great honor to be here on my first trip as secretary of state. i have not been to my office yet. this relationship has never been stronger. i think we should both be proud of that. we had fantastic conversations today on difficult issues facing each of us. we are incredibly proud to be aening the new in the city on may 14. way ahea

that the iran deal was to be preserved. now you are talking about a new deal with iran. why did you change your mind? did you join the stronger approach suggested by president trump? is it because he could not convince him and in addition, to think those that signed the agreement deal will follow you? [speaking french] >> i say there's no plan b, regarding iran, i've always been coherent. you can go back to what i say, the u.n. in september, always saying we needed to add until 2025, the ballistic deal in the region. i do not know what president trump will be but with his responsibility, the pillar of the framework, i'm not sayinm one deal to another, i am saying it's one aspect of the problem. i've never been critical of the deal that president trump has because i believe we can usefully add to it but no matter the decision that president trump will take, i would like to work on the duty, including what is already covered by the deal. ongoing -- the current nuclear activities, the long-term activities, ballistic activitie activities. over the past few weeks and for exam

and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran or combine that ticket and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions further violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of their being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago maintain that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for negot

iran quibbled with that. what iran's nuke deal is looking at an assessment.

it doesn't have a border with iran. it does not have a border thatis with iran. it does not have a border that is separated speakership is commission bomb in a limited fashion, but that is not fighting a war. that is not invasion. that is not really caring countries apart, as has happened in syria. it is not happen to stop the anxiety. these conversations — unless iran rival to sendin conversations — unless iran rival to send ina conversations — unless iran rival to send in a couple of divisions across iraq into syria... 80,000 is not a small, not a small... taken together, tens of thousands of troops in market is not a small manoeuvre. these conversations we are having our related. people don't wa nt are having our related. people don't want the iran in regime to become the next north korea with the power to stop... donald trump hang out with donald trump tweeted that iran would not be a nuclear power in two yea rs, would not be a nuclear power in two years, five years, never. these are tough lines being taken, but they are informed by the desire not to ge

the iran view it is not sufficient to see that iran's ambitions are curbed and contained it is most important to recognize that iran through its ballistic missile program is trying to exert geopolitical influence in syria and lebanon. solid or blockbuster verifiable agreements that guarantees that iran will not acquire nuclear weapons to denounce it without proposing anything else would be a serious mistake not respecting it would be irresponsible longly france thank you . and we should acknowledge that the current agreement doesn't allow us to address all of the issues among the things not covered by the iran nuclear deal is iran's activity in the region. politics professor saeed mohammad marandi thinks any backtracking on the iran deal will diminish merkel's own across credibility in the eyes of terror on. it did more damage to themselves and anyone else because iranians are looking at the actions and the statements of these european leaders and when they see that they flip flop so easily and they try to appease the u.s. president so readily then in future i don't think that the iranians wi

iran said to the i.a.e.a. . no work has been conducted with multipoint an issue this is multi-point initiation you've got to forgive this jargon the scientific terminology is something that is necessary to understand the production of nuclear weapons but here's what they say no work has been conducted with m.p.i. technology and hemispherical geometry but again the archives shows that this is a complete fabrication iran conducted extensive work with n.p.r. technology in hemispherical geometry is an example hundreds of more documents prove that iran said. to the agency that it did not conducted metallurgical work specifically designed for a nuclear device but the files again show that this is a lie iran conducted extensive metallurgical work specifically designed for a nuclear device it was an original winning photo plenty more in the in the archive so what i've shown you tonight. is just a fraction of the total material that we have but even from this sample. you can draw four main conclusions first iran lied abo

it all ties in with iran. at this point, we would be forgiven for knowing that these talks were happening. how worried about you about the current state of affairs? on one level, it is all the same. the new wrinkle is that israel in the last couple of weeks has attacked some iranians bases. there is a lot of speculation about, this may lead to some kind of direct conflict between israel and iran, and the secretary of defence is in israel today. i am slightly sceptical about shooting war between iran and israel coming out of this, although i think the possibility of direct conflict inside syria skirmishing style exists. it is hard to get reporting done. they going in under strict restrictions, it is very hard. iran controls the shi—ite militias of hezbollah, it has its own revolutionary guard that is a force. but the real arbiter in syria is russia. they control whether assad stays in power and interestingly, talking of the nuclear deal, we talk of how will the european governments, who are co—signatories f

iran the recent pressure started about a year ago when trump got into office in iran threaten to drop the dollar the mainstream media will likely run increasing number of reports pushing for a bleed a rating yet another country such as this from p.b.s. over on the still of top state sponsor of terrorism one must assume this list of terrorist ponces does not include the country that mase arms that significantly enhanced isis's military capabilities or the country that averages over one hundred forty bombs dropped per day under donald trump but those bombs don't cause terror those are the happy bombs there they are they just drop one thousand nine hundred ninety five richard simmons down on people that. this is very jazzy and fun it's going time. but if this is all about dropping the dollar then why was french president macpro not running around d.c. this week trying to get trump to stay in the iran nuclear deal yet france was leading the charge to attack libya and bring down gadhafi and you really are second otherly they really are. i'll tell you why iran dropped the dollar for the. eu

is that iran just simply can't be trusted. and he used information intelligence information that while new, in terms of what we're seeing on the screen today was publicly known. iran has denied in the past its nuclear program. that's not news to anyone. we've heard that for decades now. but the fact that they have complied so far with this agreement is sort of the central question right now. but prime minister netanyahu laid out the argument that iran can't be trusted, that they lied in the past and they are continuing to lie. have a listen. >> even after, iran continued to sprefrb and expand its nuclear weapons for future use. why would a terrorist regime hide and meticulously catalog its secret nuclear files if not to use them in a later date? >> reporter: so one of the important things here is to keep in mind that he didn't actually say that iran has reconstituted its nuclear program. essentially he said that the program has been put on the shelf that the files have been saved, that they've been lying about this program for

camps and iran. hezbollah possesses approximately 150,000 missiles. hezbollah provides the construction facilities near israel to produce more of these munitions. in that context, the former secretary of state described hezbollah as part of the political process in lebanon. i think we would be fools to disregard that but i just wonder if there's any concern from state that this tends to legitimize a violent theological extremist group who stated goal is to destroy israel? >> in no way do we intend to legitimize hezbollah. in no way do we distinguish between hezbollah's terrorist activities, its so-called military wing, from its so-called political wing. that's a distinction many in the world make. it is one we reject completely and have done historically. the same. >> i want to make sure that there's a bright line. >> there is. >> and i appreciate that. let me ask you this and maybe this for you, dr. mitchell. i'm sorry if i got that wrong. the eu seems to resist designating hezbollah in its entirety

because the iran deal -- again, one has to remind people, iran has no nuclear weapons. this is a deal which freezes their program 20 years before north korea is, in a sense. >> i disagree with my friend elliot. look, i think the president has tweeted himself into a corner. first, if he tears up the iran deal on may 12th, as everyone expects, it does send a terrible message to kim jong-un, we are not worth the agreements we sign. and that's going to make it more difficult to negotiate something with kim. second, in calling it repeatedly a terrible deal, the worst deal in history, trump has set the bar very high for himself in any negotiation with north korea. is he going to be able to get the north koreans like he did with iran to actually dismantle the bulk of their program? is he going to be able to get the most intrusive inspections regime in the history of any arms control agreement? that's the bar he set for himself. we should be dreaming about getting an iran-like deal with north korea. that would make us infinitely more secure than we are now. i think that's a ver

iran even under the jcpoa. they have these goals in sight. , with the ballistic missile the program and what they have been able to develop and calibrate and make them walking awayu see from any of that? no, not really. i think it is interesting that you can use the ballistic missile program as one of the tests of iranian intention. you would not spend so much -- on tophis program of the missile. the fact that we were told that make dealing will with this ballistic missile in the context of the deal, we are now seeing that it did not come into fruition and there is nothing easy about negotiating the ballistic missile program because the deal does not change their attentions why they want to have a nuclear weapon. weaponmeans to deliver a is a critical component in the iranian strategy utilizing outlined,missiles as the evidence is well aware of ,he importance of this program and it was one of the conditions that the president wanted to see fixed in the context of congressional law, negotiations with iran, and t

over iran i appreciate the president's leadership and your position on stopping iran from acquiring nuclear weapons i appreciate the president's and your position on stopping iran's aggression in the region that aggression has grown many fold since the signing of the when you people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing to do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other iran must be stopped well how are for such as life for us in west jerusalem harry the official line is that the deal is still on the table it must be improved it's been described as deeply flawed but was the impression you got today with the with the press conference at least in the message that the new secretary of state was bringing that it really was dead in the water. that it's hard to interpret it differently given what's been said by both in belgium then in riyadh now in jerusalem presumably his next stop a man as well this very much seems to be if not definitive does preemption of a decision to pull away from the iran nuclear deal at least a v

first topic is iran. you said once again in front of the press with your position was during the campaign and as well as president of the united states. it's not a mystery, we did not have the same starting positions stances, and neither you nor i have a habit of changing our stances or going with the wind. that being said i can say that we have had very frank discussions, discussion on, just the two of us. you considered the iranian deal the jcpoa, the one negotiated in 2015 with iran is a bad deal. for a number of months i say it is not a sufficient deal but it enables at least until 2025, to have some control over their nuclear activities. we therefore wish from now on to work on a new deals with what we need and i believe that on that, our discussions allowed us to shed light on our convergence is that we need to cover four topics. the first one is to block any nuclear activity of iran until 2025. this was feasible thanks to the jcpoa. the second is to make sure in the long run there is nuclear irania

there is no evidence that iran is not complying in any significant manner with the iran deal. and if all of a sudden the united states just rips it up, the north koreans will be asking themselves, how can we trust the u.s. in future negotiations? i think there are ways to use other agreements to address some of the efficiencies in the iran deal. but to completely rip it up i think would make it difficult to go with north korean negotiations on another deal with north korea. >> on another issue, you reacted to cnn's reporting on president trump's personal use of a cell phone by a -- a personal cell phone, i should say, by tweeting this. i'll read it. dear president trump, you can either use secure communications and general kelly will know who you are talking to or you can use your unsecured personal cell phone and foreign intelligence agencies will know who you are talking to and record your conversations. aide god with kelly. is this just a national security issue? do you believe congress should have some oversight as far as the president's use of a personal cell phone with s

getting in eliminating an enemy of iran and then getting out and leave iran actually we are not going to do this in syria so after defeat the defeat we are not going to allow iran to take control in this part of the world so it was clear to me from that time that the united states will be doing something in order to do to reach that containing iran so by striking now at the installations might by having this and at least like i think that was somehow. a message also sent to iran that we will not accept any sort of iranian military presence in syria there is an easy read. dyess air base last week was also another message that will not allow any sort of iranian military presence in syria so iran is the key objective right now just some was dropping from iran's revolutionary guard let's just use events will certainly not be in america's interest that's from the fars news agency and of course iran has an influence in that it's keeping its american involvement both in syria and in iraq there's involvement in the northeast of syria and also advisors in iraq you know this has to be a concern

rather than climate iran. now regarding iran. i've always been coherent and you can go back to what i said at the u.n. general assembly in september. i always say that there was the jcpoa but we needed to add three pillars. through 2025, the ballistic and the regional influence. i do not know what president trump will decide regarding the jcpoa. it's his responsibility. the jcpoa is the first pillar of this framework i described. so i'm not saying that we're moving from one deal to another. i'm saying it is one aspect of the problem. i've never been critical of the jcpoa as president trump has because i believe we can usefully add to it. but no matter the decision that president trump will take, i would like us to work on a new deal with four pillars, including what is already covered by the jcpoa, that is the ongoing -- i mean, the current nuclear activity, the other activities, the ballistic activities and the regional influence. so this is constant. but over the past few weeks and today, we've been attempting to very much talk

we therefore shall, together with the regional powers and iran, and in the context ofa powers and iran, and in the context of a demanding dialogue with iran, we shall cover all issues. first of all, the post 2025 situation of iran in the nuclear sector. second, dealing with the ballistic activities of iran in the region. next, containing the influence of iran in the region, in yemen, lebanon, iraq and syria. and these three subjects would add to the existing jcpla. and yesterday at the press c0 nfe re nce , existing jcpla. and yesterday at the press conference, as you existing jcpla. and yesterday at the press conference, as you have existing jcpla. and yesterday at the press conference, as you have seen, press conference, as you have seen, no matter the decision to be taken by the united states on 12 may, we shall act jointly by the united states on 12 may, we shall actjointly in the region in order to find a broader agreement and ajoint order to find a broader agreement and a joint strategic framework to talk to iran, to coverfour topics. the three i just talk to iran, to coverfour t

we will talk about more of iran ina progress. we will talk about more of iran in a moment. michael? we talk about the north korea pictures. thursday we would have been talking about the dandruff picture. things change, move very quickly. the meeting is as much about economic issues as anything. i do not think anyone is under any illusion as to whose voice donald trump listened to on iran. they are domestic political things happening, whispering in his earandi things happening, whispering in his earand i think things happening, whispering in his ear and i think an emotional inclination to distrust the irani regime. what they are worried about are the tariffs as actions against russia and this morning, for example, one of the things that is critical to germany is the price of aluminium. russia provides a tremendous amount of the aluminium that goes into holding at bus planes and this morning the oligarch who is under sanction by the us and made importing and purchasing the stuff more difficult has stepped aside. he is leaving the company. these sorts of things, when you read them afte

iran. -- has sought to assure us that it sees this cooperation as a necessary steppingstone towards process -- progress and the geneva process. the ease with which -- to facilitate the operation olive branch, arrangements to which america was not privy, was greatly concerning. theas agreed to purchase russian missile system which could potentially lead to sanctions and adversely impact turkey's participation in the f-35 program. it is in the american national interest to see turkey remain aligned with the west. our policy has been to combine close engagement with clear messaging, that the united states will actively defend our interests. we haveontext of syria, engaged in high-level interagency discussions, to -- and avoid inadvertent collisions between our forces. these conversations are ongoing. moving forward, our aim is to enlist turkey as a more active ally. the defeat of isis and stabilization of syria, as well as a long-term factor in thwarting the expansion of russia and iran. let u

in iran were critical of it they were saying that iran has given too many confession but ultimately when the iranians decided to sign those critics and those who supported the agreement they all agreed that you're on must abide by its commitments over the last couple of years more than two years the iranians have been abiding by their side of the border bargain and the americans haven't. a leg conversation has revealed the u.s. democratic party's leadership pressured a candidate for a house seat in colorado to drop out of the race he would like to get. i know your fund raising. you guys are selling money. i'm. someone and then i read primary. you report that. the vitamin had been focusing his campaign on clean elections skull that in climate change and improving the health care system in the u.s. he was endorsed by the state senator last night that was later asked to drop out of the race the house minority leader has defended the move. i don't see anything inappropriate let. mr hoyer was engaged in a conversation about the realities of life in a race as to who can win the general electio

another guarantor is iran. they have a serious implication in the chemical attack and yes we should homed russia accountable. how do we go about doing that. we need to build a coalition. turkey, israel and other countries in the area, iraq and all of those countries have a stake of what happens in syria. we need a strategy buildum. and we need alliance with europe and nato. and one other thing, the people that were talking here. walid was going in laying out part of the problem that exists. clearly the obama administration fame would in its attempt to deal with the syrian situation. they did have a strategy and it did not work. they were unable to identify an organization or subsets of the resistance to work with. and turned out most of them were bad actors and so yes, that was a serious problem and a failure of the obama administration. we don't need another failure here. it is it pretty clear going forward we'll have to deal with assad sometime in the future. how can we do that? >> all right. thank you. >> th

nuclear situation now and the iran nuclear situation in the future, iran's ballistic missiles and regional peace and security and that's something of interest to the president and worth pursuing. but in terms specifically of the nuclear deal, there's no decision on that yet. chris: but i guess what i'm asking is does he feel that the deal itself is fatally flawed or does he think if you address some of the other concerns like ballistic missiles, like the sunset clause, like the regional actions as bad actor around the world that he -- you could fix the deal? >> well -- chris: fixable is really the question. >> implies that the other steps wouldn't really address that concern, look, it's possible in the discussions with european allies that we will be able to see some possibility there. he would make the decision when it's appropriate to make the decision and that's be up to may 12th. chris: finally, we have been colleagues and gotten along but you are a controversial figure in washington and i want to talk briefly about that, former secretary powell said of ewe publicly, he's absolutely br

first is iran. you said once again in front of the press what your position was during the campaign as well as the president of the united states. it is not a mystery -- [inaudible] and neither you nor i have a habit of tending our expenses are going with the wind. that being said, i can say that we had a very different discussion on not just the two of us. you consider that the iranian deal, the one negotiated in 2015 is a bad deal. for a number of months, i've been saying that this was not the best deal, but at least until 2025 to have some control over the activities. we therefore reach to work on a new deal with iran. [speaking in french] >> translator: what we need, and i believe the discussions allowed to shed light and we need to govern for topics. the first one is to block any nuclear activity of iran until 2025. the second is to make sure in the long run there's no nuclear or her brain and neck cavity. the third topic is to be able to put an end to the ballistic activities of iran in the re

iran is also fueling the humanitarian disaster in yemen with its houtis.of thei the iran nuclear deal has serious falls -- serious flaws. this committee has closely examined them. the administration is rightly working to address iran's ballistic missiles, to strengthen inspections and to fix the deal's sunset problem. the british, the french and the germans need to stand with us. the list of the region's other challenges is long. our relationship with turkey's strained as never before. it's military offensive against the kurds in syria has benefited isis. the kurdish syrian democratic forces we back now have to dever at -- now have to diverge their attention from the offenses they against isis to defense of action, defending from turkish military attack. turkey's increasing engagement with russia and iran is very concerning. in libya, radical jihadists remain strong. egypt is a critical partner in the fight against isis and should be supported, but its suppression of civil society risks backfiring. and hamas terrorists are inciting violence in gaza. as tempting as it is to say, enough

iran. we will talk about the latest. then we look at the increasing number of women who have suffered a miscarriage and are then forced by their catholic health care provider to bury the fetal remains. >> i want you to know that my daughter was re-traumatized. she was already devastated by the miscarriage, in that had to be re-traumatized by this coercion of how the provider shows, not how my daughter shows, but how the provider chose to dispose of the fetal remains. amy: plus, we will go to tucson to speak with immigrant rights and reproductive justice activist alejandra pablos who has just been released from 40 days in ice detention. >> we're goingng to ask the governor to do the rigight thing and to pardon me and let me stay here without f fear. i'm tired of feeling scared. i'm tired of being persecuted for just defending my life. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a fefederal judge hahas ruled te trum

>> it's iran. this summit is going to have plenty of sizzle. we saw some of it this morning, we'll see more of it tonight. the question is whether it's going to have any steak. >> what do you mean by that? >> the substance, whether it's iran, the paris climate change agreement, whether it's syria, trade, there are some really tough issues that macron has got on the agenda for president trump. the question is whether is he going to be able to deliver. there's high expectations on president macron because he seems to be the only european -- >> he's his boy. >> right. who has any influence with trump. they see eye to eye on a lot of pageantry. the question is with whether he can convert any of that into substantive wins. that's what everybody's going to be looking for. >> but he as a knack for making president trump look good and that seems to be something that's going to be beneficial to that relationship, guys. >> certainly that is what president trump cares about, it's the brand, it's the show. >> the stage craft of it. >> how they look, how th

iran. despite all their domestic problems, they continue to be a biggest sponsor of world terror activity. they spent $2 billion every year for all this crazy support for terror. you know, in lebanon, hezbollah, hamas and jihad islamic in gaza strip, houthi tribes in yemen, shia mailitia in iraq, they spet $2 billion every year for this. it's crazy with all their own domestic problems. they invest up until now in syria since this war about $13 billion. we think that it's biggest problem that the iffanatic leadership is not reasonable. we don't have any problem with iranian people. hundreds of years we enjoyed very close relations. we have a problem with their leadership. ideology. we hope also one day we see today in korea peninsula to establish good relations with iranian people. we will see political change. we will see leadership. certainly, we don't have any dispute with iran, but they remain political and destroy the straight of israel because of fanatic ideology. >> this leads to my n

and we heard some very tough language on iran from the new u.s. secretary of state when he was in riyadh this must be music to the ears of the israeli prime minister. very much so i mean this is not just preaching to the choir it's preaching to the priest if you will benjamin netanyahu has been talking about iran in these terms for many years now and especially since the signing three years ago of the j.c. the iran nuclear deal has been wildly critical of it saying that it totally underestimates the future threat from iran and that morning is to be done to combat as you heard both men say the current situation of what netanyahu says is a spreading of missiles or any missiles into syrian territory into lebanon and thereby being a potential existential threat to israel something that he would not allow happen so when he hears the u.s. secretary of state and not just a u.s. secretary of state but a very different one from his predecessor rex tillerson who was in a state of semi detachment at best from the white house for most of his tenure as someone

i think it is against interests of thought iran that we don't have any ambitions to the store iran. what we need is security, time come and possibility to develop our economy, science, technology. israel is a third world nation. with and have ambitions to come back to gaza, syria. please, forget about us. >> let's turn to the situation on the gaza border, which he spoke about earlier in your remarks. we are in the run-up to may 15. we have seen various levels of border conflicts. what do you expect? do you think there will be an entirely new level of conflict? how would you evaluate your own response to dealing with the conflict over the last number of weeks? >> first of all, i hope a new conflict with the people in gaza -- as i mentioned, we don't have any ambitions to come back to the gaza strip. not to establish new settlements, nothing. you have your gaza strip, please concentrate on your efforts to build you society, new entity. it is not our business. but, if they tried to provoke us and to launch missiles, to damage our sovereignty, to penetrate to israel, we will do everythi

stern warnings iran iran is the aim to have developed a number of packages in response to any abrogation of the deal by the united states that includes. actions and a package in the nuclear and this tree and other package also that comes and missile industry and missile technology as well as iran's a regional clout and influence and activities but these three packages are over the state people and it's believed that iran would choose all of them the nuclear package itself i need to say it includes restart and resumption of all halted nuclear activities some even believe that iran would get out of the n.p.t. but of course we hear it every now and then but it doesn't seem to be very much likely now it's widely believed that if things go wrong iran might also adopt such a measure ok now donald trump says that the iran deal is far too lax on these criticized iran over its ballistic missile program and for backing the syrian regime in the war so do the iranians see all this as new conditions which cannot now be added to the deal. now iran has repeatedly stressed that the deal is not going to

the first topic is iran. you said once again in front of the press what your position was during the campaign and as well as the president of the united states. it's not a mystery, we did not have the same starting positions, and neither you nor i have a habit of changing fences or going with the wind. that being said, i can say that we've had very frank discussion on that, just the two of us. you consider that the iranian deal, the jcpoa, the one negotiated in 2015 with iran is a bad deal. for a number of months i've been saying that this was not a sufficient deal but that it enabled us at least until 2025 to have some control over their nuclear activities. we, therefore, wish to work on a new deal with iran. what we need, and i believe that in that in our discussions allowed us to shed light on our convergence of views is that we need to cover four topics. the first one is to block any nuclear activity of iran until 2025. this was feasible thanks to the jcpoa. the second is to make sure that in the long run

special report on weight lifting muscles and raising the bar on women's rights in iran. what men can do women can do to we've already broken more than half of the women to weightlifting records that's glory and say. oh we begin the day asking how much influence does the french president. really have over us president dogwood truong mccrone is in washington on his first state visit since truck took office and both men have referred to the u.s. france relationship as special but even more so they say their personal relationship is something special although they began with trunk telling reporters that the iran. nuclear deal is insanity tough talk but nothing new there well then trump and went into private talks and when they emerged while the plan b. which macron had said does not exist suddenly appear trump sounded as if he is willing to let the iran deal stand as long as a new deal is negotiated to add on to the existing one now that left a lot of unanswered questions but it did expand on one burning topic in paris washington and even here in berlin that budding bromance

and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran or combine that took and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions further violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of their being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east remains of people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago maintain that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for negotiation that

yet to write a lesson from the nuclear the nuclear crisis between iran and the us iran and their war continued for twelve years when they decided specifically president obama decided to engage constructively to have peaceful negotiation to have mutual respect then they could settle in one of the most important and critical issues between iran and the west practically after it will who should nine hundred seventy nine now president macaroni saying we should keep the deal and we should fight with iran in the region the lesson from disappearing tears if you were engaged constructively with iran you would be able also to help to resolve the regional crisis iran would cooperate for peaceful management of the regional crisis but if you are going to fight with iran in the region to tension that animosity be going on and a vessel would increase and definitely sooner or related we would witness the death of nuclear at the. in nicaragua president daniel ortega says that he'll withdraw the proposed pension reforms that sponsor a wave of violent protests killing twenty six people dozens of shops