then they would push iran to leave the deal but iran is a member of non—proliferation treaty. iran would remain as member of non—proliferation treaty. the main criteria is non—proliferation treaty. as long as iran is going to be member of non—proliferation treaty, as long as iran is going to permit the iaea inspectors to visit its nuclear programme based on safeguards and iaea regulations, therefore, why there should be a war? and the other members of npt, 180 members of npt, they are already complying with safeguard agreements foreseen in iaea regulations... let's quickly move on, we don't have much time, to syria. after the trump announcement, we then saw tensions rise very rapidly inside syria, notably between israel and iran. the iranian forces, and there are believed to be 30,000 or so personnel directly answerable to tehran inside syria, they fired some rockets towards the occupied golan heights. in return, the israeli airforce launched strikes against a whole series of iranian military targets. how worried is the tehran government right now about spiralling direct

since the time the iran nuclear iran hasimplemented. been engaging in its unique rand of sectarianism and violence, exporting revolution lebanon. middle east through nd, in some strange way iran's compliance with the iran nuclea eal, a low bar, compliance became a seal of approval iran when you look at the threat atrix, especially in missiles t has done nothing to diminish >> talkile launches. about ally cooperation. in cooperation. air ally what they see and do. you theioned the saudi's. effects of the liberation. >> ofn you look at the number launchedthat have been from yemen inside of saudi arabia this is when one lands right there in the riyadh airpo his is a threat to security. al peace and imagine if one of the missiles ad been at charles de gaulle o. there heangerous. dangerous work. the theyferation of missiles, re trying to weaponize the middle east. they were able to forward deployed missile base i they have the same aspirations iran is goodyemen. plausibley zone. eniability for the missile att. e don't make a distinction etwe

investment in iran. that is his main complaint. the united states is not asking europe to invest in iran. that is the key to the whole iran deal. now that we are -- again, europe was afraid to go in to the iran deal because of u.s. secondary sanctions. they are key because the islamic revolution regard corps -- revolutionary guard corps. irgc backed out of the economic sanctions on the domestic front and the economy, again, the rgc budget tripled. the iranian protesters complain squandered the benefits of the jcpoa. we would still have an iran deal. they have been using this money, you are arguing, for a proxy war in yemen, in syria against israel, without the iran deal in place, is there a risk that the united states gets dragged into these proxy wars? guest: i have been hearing what russia is saying about this you had european countries yesterday condemning iran's 20-missile barrage on israel. urging both sides to stop. but there was a message. this will not be tolerated. we cannot back you up, iran, i

the way for iran to have a bomb. the deal is fundamentally flawed and it allowed around to block inspectors from accessing military sites leaving them incapable of verifying if iran was there -- complying with the deal. it did nothing to stop the ballistic missile program or support for terrorism. is using the final windll from the deer to spread money to terrorists and insurgents throughout the middle east. iran firing rob -- rockets into israel and -- bowstring has a lot to unprecedented levels of strength in lebanon and arming rebels in yemen and backing the taliban in afghanistan. thanks to intelligence revealed by prime minister benjamin netanyahu we know that the deal was built on lies as part of the deal the leaders promised to never build a nuclear weapon and come clean to the iaea about past activities. the foreign minister said iran did not have any program to develop nuclear weapons and consider them a rational as well as a moral. the document exchanged by israel proved that iran had a program and they bra

of iran possess. this is all on top of a well documented terror and torture that the regime has inflicted for decades on those who dissent from the regime's ideology. the iranian regime is going to ultimately have to look itself in the mirror. the iranian people, especially its youth, are increasingly eager for economic, political and social change. the united states stands with those who are longing for a country of economic opportunity, government transparency, fairness, and greater liberty. we hope, indeed we expect that the iranian regime will come to its senses and support, not suppress, the aspirations of its own citizens. we're open to new steps. not only with our allies and partners, but with iran as well. but only if iran is willing to make major changes. as president trump said two weeks ago, he's ready, willing and able to negotiate a new deal. but the deal is not the objective. our goal is to protect the american people. any new agreement will make sure iran never acquires a nuclear weapon

iran supports terrorism. iran has ballistic missiles. iran tramples on human rights. as the leader said, no one doubts that iran is a bad player. the question is, how do you answer it? yes, there are some parts of a jcpoa that are problematic. but how do you fix them? do you fix them by staying in the deal? or do you fix them by walking away from the deal? i think it's clear that if you want to fix them, you stay in the deal and try to get others who are in the deal to work with us. we needed to work with our partners to extend the life of the deal because the sunset provision were problematic. we need to work with our partners to dial up pressure on iran. we walk away now. we have no pressure. instead of iran being isolated, the united states is isolated. we've lost all leverage. we've lost the goodwill of our partners. it seems to me that at this particular time, walking away from this deal is the worst thing we could do. we've also lost credibility on the world stage. at a time when we're going into serious negotiations with north korea. who would want to negotiate

threat to pull out of the iran nuclear deal iran destabilizes this entire region that supports proxy militias and terrorist groups. it is an arms dealer to the the rebels. and iran conducts cyber hacking kept it. supports the murderous assad regime as well compares arrival in riyadh followed a barrage of eight ballistic missiles fired into saudi territory by hooty fighters in yemen the u.s. 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 for its 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 rema

iran lied. big time. after signing the nuclear deal in 2015, iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files. in 2017 iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in tehran. this is the district in southern tehran. this is where they kept the atomic archives, right here. few iranians knew where it was. very few. and also a few israelis. now from the outside this was an innocent looking compound. it looks like a dilapidated warehouse. but from the inside, iran's secret archives locked in massive files. actually they're bigger than this. a few weeks ago in a great intelligence achievement israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults. and here's what we got. 55,000 pages. another 55,000 files on 183 cds. everything you're about to see is an exact copy of the original iranian material. you may want to know where are the originals. well, i can say they're now in a very safe place. here's what the files included. incriminating documents, incriminating charts,

statesreement clearly iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will iran ever seek, develop, or acquire any nuclear weapons. unequivocal statement. ensure iran- and to never does, this agreement provided for ongoing inspections. they were not just inspecting obvious places. they were inspecting the entire supply chain that iran would have to go to to make a weapon. secretary of energy under obama has received recognition for his expertise. he sat at the table because he knew what would take to develop a nuclear weapon. he put into the agreement that president trump is walking away from the kind of access for inspection gives us the insurance that iran could not cheat. anyone who argues that iran could build a weapon under this agreement is simply wrong. each time, i asked what his experience had been in iran. if your inspectors want to go through a certain door or inside a certain facility. where you stopped by a ron -- iran? stoppedme that if we they opened the door. that iran repeatedly was in compliance with the theear agreement and that inspectors were able to resolve any areas wher

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. this is the shorabad district. this is where they kept the atomic archives. right here. few iranians knew where it was. very few. and also a few israelis.ay . 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 -- secret atomic 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. and 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 know where are the originals. i can say they are now in a very safe place. here's what the files included -- incriminating documents incrim

great things can happen for iran. and great things can happen for the peace and stability that we all want in the middle east. there has been enough suffering, death, and destruction. let it end now. thank you. god bless you. thank you. >>> mr. president, how does this make america safer? how does this make america safer? >> thank you very much. this will make america much safer. thank you very much. >> is secretary pompeo bringing the detainees home? >> secretary pompeo is right now going to north korea. he will be there in virtually an hour. he has meetings set up. we have our meeting schedule. we have our meeting set. the location is picked. the time and date. everything is picked. and we look forward to having a very great success. we think relationships are building with north korea. we will see how it all works out. maybe it will. maybe it won't. but it can be a great thing for north korea, south korea, japan, and the entire world. we hope it all works out. thank you very much. >> are the americans being freed?

the iran nuclear deal had certain merits and was potentially the best way to try and prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon in the future and that of course is entirely in opposition to what benjamin netanyahu has been arguing for many years now and you heard that he tried to strike a pretty somber resolute tone in his comments both in hebrew and in english but behind the scenes there's little question he will be celebrating this because he tried to many years to lobby president obama on this issue he bypassed obama went straight to the u.s. congress made a speech against the idea of an iran nuclear deal since it was instituted he's been lobbying against it now he has this u.s. president who seems to share his concerns and his recommendations almost entirely and i think a couple of things in trump's speech will have stood out specially for netanyahu first trumpet using the the the same sort of speech that netanyahu gave with the screen behind died and saying iran lied last week he cited that talking about it iran not making good on its promises it promised and it lied but more impo

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 and 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

and iran impossible and i think donald trump has essentially become the amen version inside of iran's politics now where it is going to be borderline impossible for any iranian official to go into a national security council meeting and argue with any kind of veracity and accuracy that iran can do business with this so this is what makes it even more important for the europeans the russians the chinese the indians the japanese the south koreans the rest of the world to really step up and prevent the donald trumps and the john bolton's and the might pump ayos from achieving for what they've been the last thing after for so long now they've said it in their own words regime change in war for i do believe that the white house is actively pursuing regime change in iran and would that even be possible. it is not going to be possible they have been they the reaming vision change for about forty years since the one nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. it is not going to be possible but if you look at the hearing that my comp had for his secretary of state confirmation he was asked t

out of the iran nuclear deal. trump signed a presidential memorandum reinstating sanctions against iran after calling the agreement a quote, horrible, one-sided deal that did not bring peace and never will. in an address before signing that document, trump called iran the leading state sponsor of terror. trump had previously resisted lobbying from the seven other signatories to the deal, insisting that it had to be changed to keep the u.s. on board. let's listen in to part of what the u.s. president had to say just a few hours ago. >> at the heart of the iran deal was a giant fiction that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program. today, we have definitive proof that this iranian promise was a lie. brent: all right. we have team coverage of this story tonight. we want to go first to clear richardson in washington. -- claire richardson. what was the biggest take away from this announcement today? clare: there is a lot to unpack in what was truly perhaps the most monumental foreign-policy dec

out of the iran's nuclear deal trump signed a presidential memorandum reinstating sanctions against iran after calling the agreement quote a horror. one sign a deal that didn't bring peace and never will in an address before signing that document trump called iran the leading state sponsor of terror trump had previously resisted lobbying from the seven other signatories to the deal insisting that it had to be changed to keep the u.s. on board let's listen in to part of what the u.s. president had to say just a few hours ago at the heart of the iran deal was a giant fiction that a murder's regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program today we have definitive proof that this arabian promise was a lie all right we have team coverage of this story tonight we want to go first suit claire richardson she is in washington but richard is in brussels force good evening to both of you claire i'll ask you what was the biggest takeaway from this announcement today. hi brant there's a lot to unpack in what was a truly perhaps the most monumental foreign policy decision that we've seen in gene

and then we also have jim and joel making the iran's ending of iran's presence. this is, again, the proposed units getting out of syria. this is a diplomatic priority for jim's work. it's a priority for my work to impose sufficient pressure on iran that the cost-benefit analysis changes for iran in terms of the proliferation into syria. that extends to iraq. we're trying to change the cost-benefit analysis for iran's line behavior in iraq and syria. >> is there any -- is there any scope for partnering with iran on a limited scope here on the stabilization and reconstruction? i know this is getting a little bit. you mentioned iraq, in particular. is there any prospect or any -- have you seen the calculus begin to change? especially in iraq. is iran moderating its behavior or showing, perhaps, it isn't worth what it was going to destabilize and it could be part of the solution? >> i think after you saw the press reports about iran bringing missiles into iraq, you then had attacks on our embassy. a couple of weeks ago on thursday and friday and then you had the atta

trade with iran. unlike the united states they have companies that for many years, since our own unilateral sanctions went into effect many years ago, they have had trading relations with iran. they like making money on iran. the companies see a market they can do business in. so long as they can come up with parameters that kept the united states in the deal, kept the united states secondary sanctions as they are called which would apply to their companies and their banks from saying off, that can continue. what were the 3 leader that i had declared, similar to its fatima, that it would never develop nuclear weapons, they would limit range with her missiles to 2000 km. guess where the negotiations came on ballistic missiles? anything over a 2000 km missile tests, a missile capable of traveling farther than 2000 km, would win international sanctions would anything in their existing arsenal would not so iran gets to keep the delivery mechanisms michael told you about. with regard to inspections, one of

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

iran deal. if there wasn't this strategy to destabilize in the middle east or to prop up new militias and to further destabilize yemen and saudi arabia relationship and we still have iran deal. >> host: the been using this money for proxy wars in yemen against saudi arabia and for a proxy war in syria against israel and without this deal in place is therees a risk that the united states gets dragged into these proxy wars and into an open war like "the new york times" suggested today?? >> guest: i listen to what russia has been saying about this and you have european condemningesterday iran's 20 missile barrage on israel in the golan heights. yes, they are urging besides. there was a message there that d.this will not be tolerated and we cannot back you up if you are doing things like this to prove the president's point that you are not a trusted actor. the other rhetoric is we can't race to a bomb because you lose as well but you lose europe and russia and china you race to the bomb because uran

rights in iran. so far, that has not been the case. any more questions? ginsberg.insperity -- >> excellent panel. i am from the contra-extremism project, and i was also in the white house in the state department during the iranian revolution in the 1979. so it is fascinating to watch this. >> so you were a young cadet then. >> yes, i was a young kid. the obama administration officials such as phil gordon and susan rice are urging everyone to be quiet in the editorial, op-ed writing. don't do anything, don't say anything to rock the vote. -- don't say anything to rock the boat. patrick was absolutely right, i agree with him about the issue on sanctions. where do you all come out on as a policy for the united states where the obama administration in its infinite efforts to get the jcppoa passed, took regime-change off the table? it seems like the trump administration would like to put regime-change on the table. >> let me just ask hanin. is u.s. support or silence better in this circumstance? of course

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 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 shuttled for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago maintain that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for

policy towards iran under presidents trump's decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. dark money in political campaigns here at at 3 p.m. eastern the senate returned stupid sitter the nomination of dana the uncle to serve on the consumer product safety commission. voter outreach efforts with state and all officials and three. -- on c-span3. david o'sullivan says the u.s. decision to with draw from the here brand new new deal has strained transcend plenty -- transatlantic. stepversation on the next or iran and the key players in the region. this is underlined in. arbara. good morning. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. it is seven minutes past 12:00 so it is no longer the morning. i will not hide from you that it is with a slightly heavy heart that i take the stage this morning. this is never where we had hoped we would be. maybe we should not be entirely surprised, but that does not stop me from feeling the need to express my extreme disappointment at where we now are. we deeply regret the decision that president has taken. maybe we should not be entirely surprised.

iran. on sunday, u.s. ambassador to britain woody johnson wrote an op-ed in the telegraph urging britain to withdraw its support of the landmark 2015 iran nuclear deal. ambassador johnson wrote -- "america is turning up the pressure a and we want the u.k.y our side." johnson's op-ed comes after the trump administration re-imposed economic sanctions against iran last week following trump's decision to o withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. the sanctions increase tensions between the u.s. and iran, and the u.s. and its european allies. trump threatened other countries seeking to trade with iran, tweeting -- "anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the united states." iranian president hassan rouhani has condemned the sanctions as psychological warfare, saying last weeeek he would not begin negotiations until the sanctions are withdrawn. the first step would be for u.s. president donald trump to show he generally was to engage in negotiations to solve the problem. what

most of iran's 80 million citizens have sadly never known an iran that prospered in peace with its neighbors and commanded the admiration of the world. t the future of iran belongs to its people. they are the rightful heirs to a rich culture and an ancient land. and they deserve a nation that does justice to their dreams, honor to their history and glory to god. iran's leaders will naturally say that they refuse to negotiate a new deal, they refuse. and that's fine. i'd probably say the same thing if i was in their position. but the fact is, they are going to want to make a new and lasting deal. one that benefits all of iran and the iranian people. when they do, i am ready, willing and able. great things can happen for iran and great things can happen for the peace and stability that we all want in the middle east. there has been enough suffering , death and destruction. let it end now. thank you. god bless you. thank you. reporter: mr. president, how does this make america safer? how does this make america safer? [inaudible] president trump: thank you very much. this will make america much

and to a large extent israel the center of this alliance was iran and how to counter iran and how to put an end to the iranians influence an expression of this here in the region so if you are full of the u.s. policy from that moment until now with it's the cancellation of the nuclear deal with the. harsh sanctions that were imposed recently on iran so this one just one additional step in that overall policy in order to increase the pressure on iran to single out iran is that because it's keep in mind on the issue of iran here because here we're talking about two different definitions with that is terrorism as ice a lot of guy there on or something was by but the united states what it's for fit into here isn't thems of. relationship support it is. ok hamad. i mean to some of the reports but today when it comes to iran it talks about. two things about the new global reach of iran basically iran as a destabilizing force in places like. and also bringing to its terrorist activities the resources of a state this is exactly the wording in the report is this an indication of that we might

and to a large extent israel the center of this alliance was iran and how to counter iran and how to put an end to the iranians influence an expression of this here in the region so if you are full of the u.s. policy from that moment until now with that it's the cancellation of the nuclear deal with that. it is the. harsh sanctions that were imposed recently on iran so this one just one additional step in that overall policy in order to increase the pressure on iran to single out iran is that because it's keep in mind on the issue of iran here because here we're talking about two different definitions with that is terrorism as ice a lot of guy there on or something was by but the united states what it's for fit into here is in terms of. relationship support. as well or. as well ok hamad. i mean to some of the reports particularly comes to iran it talks about. two things about the new global reach of iran basically iran as a destabilizing force in places like. and also bringing to its terrorist activities the resources of a state this is exactly the wording in the report is this an in

in iran's favor when they started meddling in syria syria called for iran to help and iran's influence grew when they laid siege on khattab saw iran as its risk you path in the two countries iran and qatar saw a new chapter in their cooperation and ties so when they failed in all these attempts of the united states seems to be intolerant and now they if they are taking matters into their own hands probably but of course that that's why probably the foreign ministers of our coal way and omani in the recent meeting in new york of gave a positive you know response when they called iran it's red and stress than you know of the fusing iran's influence in power or containing iran's influence and power in the region most often left and i just want to know what you've just been saying that's one of the oil that is within iraq that central point to hillary mann leverett in washington hillary obviously the u.s. sees iran as a threat for u.s. strategic interests in the region and also u.s. security in terms of the g.c.c. but very clearly as well in terms of israel are those worries accurate and j

could sell oil but still this way if there's a work and iran can you know bring back the money to iran to home and they are going for swapping currency deals as well as barter trade and many other ways to bypass these sanctions and the u.s. doesn't allow even two foreign embassies like the south korean embassy to use the banking ties in order to you know budget there in operations in iran and that's a major problem people now have come to realize that the u.s. is not an honest you know actor in the deal and that's why many are opposing i mean the public opinion as well as politicians in here in here from across the camps they are they believe that iran should know more of course will go for any other deal with the west because the results are already clear that's why even if i have to mend my answer to the first you know to the last question that even if europeans protect their companies and remain committed to deal or way from the united states if they drop the deal i mean in washington iran would go on with the europeans but there might be some changes to small changes in iran has fo

iran will not be able to change its foreign policy because iran's policy in syria and iran is what prevented isis from coming into iran. not only did iran stop the extremists that western governments helped create with the saudis, look at the intelligence agency document of 2012. the most important military intelligence organisation in the world, the pentagon, stated from early on in syria the dominant militant forces were the extremists and they would create a salafist entity between syria and iraq. and the regional regimes that were allied to the united states were supporting this. and then general flynn later on in an interview admitted... he was the head of that organisation, he admitted the united states took a wilful decision to help its regional allies do this. what was the group that later made a regime between syria and iraq? it was isis. the united states helped the extremists. how can you stand back and allow syria or damascus have the black flags raise over them ? you may make that point, i'm more interested in what this means for iran. there's no question, it's quite obvious tha

iran suffered hugely in the iran-iraq war. we worked with ir. the iranian people are present -- represent an ancient and important civilization that has a rightful place in the modern world with a modern economy. but too often, iran's security interests are pursued in a way that destabilizes and at times directly threatens others, supports terrorism and distorts the iranian economy. these regional activities risk increasing international conflict and threaten international peace and security. we are deeply concerned by iranian assistance to groups in yemen, lebanon, security -- -- syria and iraq. this includes reported transfers of iranian ballistic missile parts and related technology to in full fees -- the houthis yemen. such transfers miley our resolution 2231 which prohibits authorization with the security council, they violate our resolution 2216. it prohibits the sale or transfer of arms to terrorist groups. the missile attack targeted civilian areas. had they landed as intended they , would have caused suffering and chaos. there are repor

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

do business with iran iran will not get the economic benefits and then that is likely to encourage the iranians to completely pull out of this deal and restart their nuclear program and mean that diplomacy slides away and we look towards yet more military conflict in the middle east what about the wider consequences for diplomacy this decision comes at a time when the child administration is trying to track a tackle the nuclei ization on the korean peninsula how does this affect the the u.s. position and their credibility in trying to achieve that. well i think it makes it potentially more difficult because north korea wants to come up with a binding deal with the u.s. not just on its nuclear program but it wants a guarantee that they'll no never be any regime change they'll be a sort of norm aggression deal with the united states and many diplomats here are saying would you really trust the united states now after you've seen president trump tear off a deal that the u.s. was central in negotiating its interesting that might prompt the u.s. secretary of state is now on his way again to

sanctions on iran are in force there the first round of measures against iran after president donald trump rene exam the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal iran's president is accusing washington waging psychological warfare of sanctions are likely to weaken iran's currency which has been in freefall since trump's decision but also blocked iran from getting access to american dollars the u.s. has stopped imports from iran including food and carpets the sanctions also limit iran's ability to buy raw materials like steel and coal as well as precious metals in november more sanctions will kick in they'll include measures for civically targeting the oil sector and foreign banks that do business with iran kimberly healthcare reports from washington d.c. . the united states says iran is a threat and it wants to punish the country's government by isolating it from the global financial system starting tuesday you. u.s. sanctions will be reimposed to target a range of sectors blocking iran from purchasing u.s. banknotes and trading in gold in metals like aluminum and steel it will also lim

iran doesn't iran give what most of its leverage. if there if you are going to be negotiations i think the iranians will have to reconstitute the leverage that the loss. that's what we're likely to get into another cycle of isolation is is to completely collapses. at the end of the day north korea has a security guarantor. iran doesn't. that's with is another rift, which i think if the europeans manage to keep the deal alive with china and russia, and those who were seeking to kill the deal, and do not succeed, their plan b might be to raise tensions in the region so that there is more friction between iran and the u.s., in yemen and syria, iran, u.s. and its allies by the way, not just the u.s. in this way we move for some kind of confrontation that within make assisting the deal between the europeans and iranians an impossibility. the last point i make is the lessons, people most talked about the lessons the north koreans would learn from this experience with the iran deal. i'm more worried about the lessons that iranians learned f

, the president of iran. the way that it's going so far is i think next. with the administratiowhat the e is reimposed sanctions. the united states has tremendous unilateral economic and financial power in the world and i think most of us here know that but still perhaps surprising just how those have been. they suspect that they might continue to be a problem and and those that are reengaged have left. the imf and world bank have predicted the consequences for the macro economics will be severe and in fact i think to the trump administration's pleasure they've managed to do this without a spike in the oil prices which is going down. that is on the economic side. another thing that has gone well is discontinued in the limits of the jcp away -- jcpoa but i can't get into that here. they've managed to have their cake and eat it as they've reimposed the pressure and it's struggling and it's not receiving economic benefits at this stage and yet they have not resumed the expansion of the program goes far and that

in the region iran suffered hugely in the iran iraq war we worked with iran after nine eleven the iranian people represent an ancient and important civilization that has a right for place in the modern world with a modern economy. but too often iran's security interests are pursued in a way that destabilizes and at times directly threatens others supports terrorism and distorts the iranian economy these regional activities risk increasing international conflict and threaten international peace and security we are deeply concerned by iranian assistance to groups in yemen and yemen lebanon syria and iraq this includes reported transfers of iranian ballistic missile parts and related technology to the hooters in yemen such transfers violate our resolution twenty two thirty one which prohibits such transfers without the authorization of the security council they also violate our resolution twenty two sixteen which prohibits the sale or transfer of arms and related material to the huth is who the missile attacks in november and december targeted civilian areas that they landed as intended they

may be thousands of kilometers away from iran syria. syria and iran countries that are right. in the four winds of a host who. no one thinks the deal is perfect but european leaders argue that it's better than nothing if iran is to be prevented from developing nuclear weapons and cancelling the agreement would split the west down the middle. it's our job as europeans and as signatories to try everything we can to keep it you know together with the with the chinese and the russia's this is one of the side effects of what trump is doing pushing this to the arms of the chinese and the russians trumps decision will also have economic implications for both iran and germany but they pale in comparison with the fears that if the deal is scrapped it could cause a nuclear arms race in the middle east. all right so our correspondents i mean young is here at the big table to help me and practice tori plus the iran expert at none how about high he joins us from our studios in bonn to both of you gentleman good evening simon the new u.s. ambassador to germany richard grinnell he posted a t

from the iran nuclear deal. this is a live look at the white house diplomatic room, the podium where president trump is speaking shortly. we are waiting for that official announcement, which is expected to happen any moment u nnow, an when it does, we have the president's comments live in an abc news special report. thank you for joining us. our other top story, nurses in centers across the state are joining the three-day workers strike that began yesterday at california university medical facilities and college campuses. they say they got a boost, and a amy hollyfield is live with the story, amy? >> reporter: yeah, senator connell-harris is not speaking at graduation this weekend as scheduled as she's supporting these workers picketing right now. she will not cross their picket line. workers appreciate the support, having nurses with them today, and students are having to adjust to life without the support staff. uc berkley students trying to get to the final exams had to dodge a huge picket line today full of

therefore moscow is trying to forge an equilibrium between iran and israel so that iran can get much of what it wants, namely asad will rule syria and they think the united states had or did before helsinki and that iran will allow itself to be evicted from the area around israel. ten days ago moscow proposed in jerusalem that iranian forces be kept due to miles and they abide by the 1974 agreement and that they would guarantee it. the israelis turned them down flat. just some consternation or surprise in moscow because israel's policy is that the iranian military in syria has to be completely withdrawn or the problem from moscow's point of view is that why they understand security interest, taking the iranians out of syria means that a suds government is not secure at any point in time or anywhere in syria and moscow is not about to commit ground forces to syria in order to sustain asad against his people. the ideal outcome would be a solution that holds the balance between israel and iran and gets the united states out of syria and return for other concession concessions, the creat

change in iran whether through an internal uprising or through military strikes he is against the iran deal he's also allied to this crazy organization called the m.k. oh yeah quite frankly a bunch of terrorists iranian terrorists the us has long recognized them as terrorists and they haven't got a hope of throwing the iranian government so on the one side you have these crazy people in a war cabinet as you describe on the other hand iran is not iraq in two thousand and three it's not libya in two thousand and eleven it is a strong country internally cohesive with a popular government which is backed by its people and a strong military the west likes to pick on the weak not the strong and the wrong is strong iran can set off lots of fires and if america dares make a move you're going to find israel missiles raining down on israel you're going to find missiles raining down on u.s. bases in the persian gulf and perhaps in saudi arabia is going to get it from the iran has a regional alliance called the resistance axis it also has international allies like russia and china so this won't be

in a you to the private sector but also to iran that we are continuing business with iran. that's the first thing. the other thing is setting up protected credit lines. we have seen a few of these initiatives happening in france, in italy, denmark, and so on. essentially, you would have work with credit export agencies, banks, to establish credit lines to iran the nominated in euros rather than u.s. dollars. theoretically, you would circumvent the reach of the u.s. secondary sanctions. it will have some impact, i think, but the problem is, when i talked to businesses about iran, everyone said we are really interested in this market. we see a huge potential. we want to do is this. the problem is the bank -- to do business. the problem is the bank. the bank says we want to do this but the risk is too high. we cannot take the risk of penalties from the u.s. that is the sticking point. that you have european policymakers saying we encourage this. youif you are a big bank, are relying on access to european capital markets, on the ability to have processing payments in u.s. dolla

should iran when we see iran moving a bit more eastwards or will they also be a bit more pragmatic and say well at the end of it that president trump is in power for two years maybe six at the most just ride the wave after all they used to that i think it's a going to be a mixture of these two tendencies so of course we know that the preference of the iranians ministration has been since the very beginning since two thousand and thirteen to improve relations with the european partners and he has stressed that from a political perspective and economic perspective so i don't see the european preference dropping anytime soon of course because of the limitation of the european tools available to protect what the scope was mentioning are referring to is so small and medium enterprises it's going to be difficult for it iran just to rely on europe us so they are going to look at russia and china we have already seen a number of statements and discussion about no agreements on the energy sector infrastructure scepter between iran and russia and china and that has been also the tendency that we