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it's been forty years since the overthrow of the shah of iran would saw his government replace with an islamic republic on talk to al-jazeera we speak to a former foreign minister ambassador to the united nations and a leading voice on the principles of the islamic republic dr come out was also a military spokesman during the iran iraq war with a central role in iranian state media. as he is now chairman of iran's strategic council for foreign relations and the foreign policy adviser to the supreme leader ali khamenei so forty years on the revolution achieved its goals and how is iran overcoming the challenges of the u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear disarmament deal tougher sanctions and heightened

military tensions in the region dr talks to al-jazeera. doctor an. adviser to iran's supreme leader on foreign policy and former minister of foreign affairs thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera. as iran marks forty years since the one thousand nine hundred nine revolution it also recently unveiled a ballistic missile now the u.s. has come out and said it will remain relentless in pressuring iran to deter its missile program we know that relations with the united states are described by some at an all time low and the nuclear agreement of which the u.s. has pulled out of some are saying is hanging by a thread why would iran unveil a ballistic missile now there are many enemies. are moments. including force base was it just fighters who had no choice but to give it all or psychology to

a different order but even the european union said earlier this month that it was gravely concerned by iran's ballistic missile launches and that iran continues to undertake efforts to increase the range on perception of its missiles together with increasing the number of tests and operational launches so even the europeans who are considered your allies and partners in this nuclear agreement are concerned about is no justification for that because according to resume lucian two three three was. designing misfires for show or need to carry nuclear war. or prohibited but not other kinds of miss arias in terms of the range of this ours we have decided to have up to two thousand kilometers so what you're saying is iran is not violating their nuclear agreement likely but when the e.u. says that it's actually calling in

a statement it's calling upon iran to refrain from these activities that deepen mistrust and destabilize the region are you discounting that statement by the e.u. exactly shrewd what is the step and raising the region who is the stability in the region those who are already here saying that iran is there and if that is what they claim but in fact those who have developed terrorist groups and have tried to topple done. existing governments don't depart these who have disabilities the region we have tried to keep the status quo by fighting against terrorism in iraq and syria which were defeated by the help of your own and therefore iran has been established in fact they're not vs the police in fact. you know european countries have to say that the why door selling so much arms to the arab and united arab emirates and to history. why they are selling arms to do

so contrary to iran has the i mean iran to develop its own armaments including technology but is the j c p o at risk of dissolving with these activities on behalf of iran is the pressure of americans on european countries to not do business with israel that is making just you a useless instrument well the europeans have said that the g c p o eight can exist without the united states and now as you know they've come up with a concept called a special purpose vehicle to help facilitate trade with iran but is this special purpose vehicle ultimately going to fail in your opinion because washington is saying that if europe tries to go around us sanctions that have been recently imposed then they will be subject to fines and penalties that all depends on the decision of the european countries that if they want to show their independence

against the pressures on americans or not so far unfortunately they have not been committed you know they were supposed to have normal relations with iran in terms of bank or relationship to read business investment in your own but nothing has happened are iranian european relations at risk of unraveling specifically after recent accusations by the europeans that iran has been behind assassination attempts on european soil in twenty eighteen as you know that's according to the dutch government for one as well as the french government these are accusations one has to look to you to do what they are or if there are any certain situation to that. some people have claimed that this is the case. but. iran. is not doing anything against european security we've got verse some good relation of it some european countries but it is unfortunate that european countries have their own problems with the united states and mr trump is putting

a lot of pressure on european countries in fact united against the existence of european union is trying to space that would be established the european union as an entity and therefore they have their own problems with the united is the case and if you sit with them and talk to them you can find that any individual country indeed a european countries have problems with the policies of the united states so far iran has said that's it is willing to stay in the nuclear deal should iran stay in the deal in your opinion. you have decided to is the stay in the deal but me you know there was some end to it if we find that there is no benefit out of it till you know we signed a deal to have benefits over three and been of his in terms of tourism business and

normal relations you know not only the trade and business have been developed between iran and european countries but there are mounting new pressures on iran on the case of. i mean myside technology and the case of the president of iran in the region. therefore all of this pressure. may lead to stopping to have cooperation on the. president trump said last year that he's willing to hold talks with president rouhani without preconditions the iranian government up until this point has said that they won't do that but recently rouhani said that negotiations would be possible with the u.s. if it repents would you advise your president to hold talks with president trump and would you advise the supreme leader who has the ultimate say on foreign policy issues and you know it will hurt him it's not the current situations because no one

can trust the president of the united states so let's say there was a different president than would iran be willing to talk about would your advice be let's talk to the united states or you know the result if you chair you know that is a hypothetical question and we have to wait and see who is going to win as the president of the united is is for the next year before everything should be trust should be based on equal footing and equal rights and that's missing you know united it's just putting pressure and they think that by pressurising iran they can achieve their goals and this is their mistake you don't has never needed to the pressure all true forty years of its life we did not submit to the pressures by you know saddam hussein and those who were supporting said the morsi you did not

submit to the pressures of the united nations and others in terms of putting sanctions. and therefore that is their mistake it seems that americans have be food by certain circles that if they put pressure on iran iran would stop me. how would you describe u.s. iranian relations as they stand today it's rewards is. there's no relation and there's an impasse at a between iran and the united states during using all their instruments to put pressure on iran and even. mr john bolton. said that iran unit would not see there for two years and you were sorry this means that they were going to. change and change regime change and therefore ease off most animosity from the side of united states i can see it or is there any way out

of this impasse with the united states in your opinion it on what is the way forward if they have to change their policies they have to come up with a new policy unfortunately do not estates he's trying to match airlines financial perilous and if india pass i'm paralyzed him was dependent on arms and wars today americans are dependent on point i'm sure instruments are putting pressures on everyone to put it on adequately but it's not going to stop president rouhani as well as of his allies have really staked their credibility a lot of people would say on this nuclear agreement as well as the economic benefits it was supposed to bring to iran so domestically there's a lot to lose for the current government if the deal collapses or if iran pulls out

of the nuclear agreement would that empower hardliners who oppose that from the starts there are a lot of persons on the government naturally because everyone was. expecting that the clarity of would bring. trade and business through to. and economic rules would be created but unfortunately by depression of americans it's not happened and therefore there are lot of pressures on the current government and now even the supreme leader of iran acknowledged that the sanctions the recently imposed u.s. sanctions are pressuring iran so what do you say to the average iranian who is caught up in this. witness in this themself and they know that this war soft is pressures of the or the united states but the economic problems that iran faces surely are not simply down to the u.s. pressure is because last year we saw protests across cities and towns and tens of

them in fact people were protesting over poor living standards that can't be something down to the americans here death was because you know. inflation and. a change of. foreign currency but the i.m.f. is saying that at least one in four people in iran can't find work unemployment rate is at twelve percent does this all threaten the current leadership should it be worried. that these are the problems that we are facing in europe but one has to look to it that what is the source of. problems to sort of the problems is unjustified pressures one of the united states as the country struggles economically dr iran is engaged as we know in conflicts around the middle east in iraq in syria as well as in yemen spending a lot of money billions in arms and financing as well as support many people saying why is iran spending this money abroad when there are so many economic problems at home it is the mother of iranian security we rush to the help of iraqis and

syrians under their invitation because eventually our security was at this stage you know if the issue had succeeded. to take over. damascus they were very close to iranian border and more than that to come into a region and oppose those countries who have tried to get supplies to however countries accuse iran of destabilizing the region the u.s. even some of your neighbors in this region say that iran is so in discord and confusion around the middle east the e.u. in a statement this february expressed concern iran's role in growing middle east tensions including it says support for groups in syria and iran own forces in the country do you agree that iran is complicit in the chaos of these countries no because we have tried to keep the region as

a tease to keep is that it's cool to support existing governments will never try to dearest. and to top it on the governments those are the parties who have to be have to be questioned but you were supporting a syrian government which the un accuses off war crimes and you are supporting the who think groups in yemen the un just saying that iran is financing who feeds through illegal shipments of fuel there are a lot of talks on the conditions here and there at this have to be substantiated. reality is that we oppose intervention of others in any country in the region so the arab e.o. has intervened in yemen so there has intervened in syria and become the let others to intervene has iran intervened in yemen and syria

and you at least agree that iran don't know ask you what you want is you complicit in these wars intervention means that you go to other countries without invitation as americans have intervened in syria. as the arab your has intervened and united i mean it's the saudi arabia that was then we went down by the yemeni government listening to yemen then the syrian government has also gone to come over and help them that is doesn't mean intervention is supporting the status quo so it's quite different what is iran's end game in syria we know that there are iranian advisors on the ground what is the endgame there. we are trying go to visit courtney to us on his initiative to have a new constitution and people of syria would decide based on the constitution that who would govern them that his ultimate game president trump recently said

that he'd like to keep american troops in iraq to quote watch iran what is your reaction to that to have failed in syria in fact they are giving some excuse that the law you do are going to leave syria they have no choice but to leave and they would not have any choice to leave it up as well as they have no choice but to leave afghanistan because they have proven that by their presence notching nothing they can achieve let me ask you about israel and the secretary of the iranian supreme national security council said recently that israel will receive a decisive response if it continues attacks in syria netanyahu recently said that israel won't let iran remain in syria how do you see those threats from israel is the possibility of a war between israel and iran on the table if they want to gauge or in their own

security iran would respond. but they're not going to restore it more against any entity and you know that is their decision if they want to engage. that's what that would be something else last year the u.s. secretary of state he set out twelve demands for inclusion in any new nuclear treaty with iran among them according to secretary pompei was to end iran's threatening behavior against its neighbors some of which are u.s. allies including israel and the poland u.s. summits and war so it's being described in unofficial circles at least as being an anti iran summit somewhat does this all put pressure on iran on the international arena nothing they can do against iran but i believe that one of their main cools he's against russia because it has been a long time that they do want to. bring in poland

against russia and therefore it's not only the matter of iran is the matter of a new a strategy of the united this these against iran against russia i guess you need to go into a country you've described the polish government's hosting of this conference as a disgrace for the european identity and we know that iran has summoned poland's top on boy council the polish film festival so this conference must bother iran somewhat for the house was that it was really a bond that is a sign of a new must city if anything would. be kim against you know from this conference. you know do you know that. let's look at the g.c.c. for a moment because countries like bahrain and saudi arabia the u.a.e. say iran interferes in other states affairs iran's relations specifically with the

kingdom of saudi arabia and bahrain can be described as strained at best why do you think that is because he joined the policies of the so the arab young government you know they have tried to develop their regime when you know it's only on battery on. or on yemen and other countries and dispute between qatar and. saudi arabia and united irises for the same reason and they have to a stop to say germany policy and come up feet first into the country first thing is relations with the neighboring countries or their voice you know that would be. syria or situations into which i'm speaking of the disputes the secretary of state my comp a.o. said that the dispute the rift between qatar out on one side and saudi bahrain egypt and the u.a.e. on the other side was threatening regional unity that's needed to counter iran does the g.c.c. blockade work in favor of iran. we are not happy that disputes are

developing in duration because that does not help for the security and development of peace in your region but this is a matter of fact that out of his human and policies of the b. and united arab emirates this dispute has been developed we are ready to talk to everyone in derision even so the r.b.i. emir is all other parties and we believe eventually that he's defining a solution for developing peace and security and duration. out of intervention of foreign countries if you sit there and talk to each other for the benefit of the region i believe something will be come out of it dr haraszti you were foreign minister under president mohammad khatami of course who was and is supported by a political faction known as the iranian reformists now his vision called for more

freedom called for more democracy yet today iran is ranking one hundred sixty four out of one hundred eighty that's according to reporters without borders on the world press freedom index and there are twenty eight thousand reports and they say that the state controls news it controls information it's been relentless in the past thirty nine years of its persecution of independent journalists media as well as arbitrary arrests you must be dismayed by all of this disarray things are politicized not impartial but these are you saying that iran that has a free media iran compared to many countries have three media iran compared to many countries around has been developing so surely economically. for example guilds and ladies have. been going to universities have been taking care it is sponsored while it is in iran and. some

impartial body has two great ranking why does organisations or totally politicised forty years on from the revolution do you think that the revolution has achieved its aims in your opinion it would lucian has achieved a lot of schools the most important is to keep the independence of the country and security of the country iran is the most secure place in decision iran has been developing economy the socially in terms of social justice. if you compare iran today read iran before evolution you find it in many respects iran has been developing for example in terms of science and technology you know as one of the forerunners

of science and technology to the region iran's number one in the region and over seventeen in the vote in terms of the number of articles and citations and in terms of developing its defense needs iran has been able to develop all their needs by itself what we still find in iran though is that a lot of the wealth of still concentrated in the hands of a few people and that the revolutionary guards for example have extensive business interests so that was one of the ends of the revolution has that been fulfilled has the wealth been redistributed evenly amongst the partly claim that all the aims of iran of solution has been achieved but there has been created developments in iran and the distribution of arabs in terms of achieving real lower developments in terms of. building dawns in terms of the roads transportation and

gameport and self that is that all of these have been happening with our support of foreigners it has been based on say afraid alliance by good resources that we have internally that is very important that is why. is inspiring and many nations i don't all look to iran as an independent and as and as in dependent entity that vid out. support so far and there's even in dick a self and he mustn't see of others like me as his own in terms of sanctions you don't have been able to do it all and therefore that to use this source of inspiration and disorder of influence and delusion if he or any media are talking about influence over you don't need good reason you know that it's not because we

have intervened in other countries that is because we have been inspired let me finally ask you what is your hope for iran to have a good life to develop fair there to keep our independence and integrity and to be a problem that after forty years over the russian guy had been moving we had been trying to business or the british for the little boy for. science and technology and so that's sort of our private doctor commodity advisor to iran's supreme leader on foreign policy and former foreign minister thank you for talking to al-jazeera that come.

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a certain proportion of palestinian tax money which was supposed to be equatable to the amount that had been paid towards palestinian prisoners and their families those convicted of carrying out attacks on israelis during the course of twenty eighteen the calculations have now been made and the israeli government intends to withhold some one hundred thirty eight million us dollars in money that the palestinians say is theirs is their rightful money which should be paid to them under the system set up under the oslo accords a tax which is collected by israel and paid on a monthly basis to them the palestinians are saying that this is piracy that this is in contravention of those oslo accords and this is money that is rick.