has completely disregarded and run over not just the intelligence community but also the pentagon who both of them which have objected to this decision was pushing back against it but were essentially set aside by bolton and those in the white house have been driving this policy and the reason why they have objected to this is precisely because they recognize that this decision actually does not serve u.s. national interest because it makes the united states less safe by increasing the likelihood of a confrontation with iran so and this is not a new position when these issues had come up earlier on when israel and other countries were pushing for this ten twelve years ago it was then back then as well the pentagon and the intelligence community as a push back against this decision and for at least twelve years they've managed to hold it off up until the trumpet in the strait came in of course which seems to be much more sensitive to the advice given to them by netanyahu or n.b.s. in saudi arabia than the advice that they're given by their own intelligence

community and mohammed in tehran when my pompei or the u.s. secretary of state says that this policy of maximum pressure against iran will continue until iran behaves like a normal nation what goes through the minds of the administration in tehran. i think the first thing that comes to mind is afghanistan and al qaeda which the united states and the saudis helped create that the rise of the taliban support for saddam hussein and chemical weapons that they provided him that this invasion and destruction of iraq supporting extremists in syria the destruction of libya and of course the ongoing starvation that we see in yemen and all of this is very much linked to the united states and of course the ongoing misery that palace in this are enduring the iranians believe that it's extraordinarily hypocritical for the americans to make such statements about iran but i think what trump has done is not

only has the united iranians more than before but also by antagonizing turkey they've drawn turkey closer to iran by trying to impose their will upon iraq iraqi government and also by trump entering iraq without rocky permission they push iraq towards iran by antagonizing russia and the trade war with china they're drawing all these different countries closer to iran simultaneously in the united states looks very bad by making such a foolish foolish act whereas as your previous guest rightly pointed out when even members and people within a very extreme regime in washington are opposed to such a policy that shows how bad it is for the united states all right ellie coming back to you it's estimated that the revolutionary guard comprise what one hundred fifty thousand people at the moment but these new citations could affect many many more people couldn't they how many do you think. well according to

a statement made by u.s. officials to reporters yesterday this could cover as many as eleven million people that have at some time or another been affiliated with the group now what's important for your viewers to know is that iran has mandatory conscription and that means many many young men have to join parts of the military including r.t.c. at some point or another and there's a real question mark about what's going to happen to these folks particularly those who are traveling abroad and those who are under current these as in the united states because one of the predictions is that there's going to be even more extreme vetting than we already have for applicants from iran so really there's a there's a big question mark over how exactly this is going to be implemented critically at a time when the u.s. treasury is currently swimming in a pool of sanctions on iran that keep increasing day by day you know on

a weekly basis we're hearing more and more sanctions against iranian entities and the treasury has so much capacity to actually implement these but for sure this is a new challenge of exactly who's going to be covered and how. mohammed how would you assess the state of u.s. relations today following on from this trading of labels of terrorist organizations much worse than before. not much worse i i think that it is obviously worse than before but they were they were pretty bad again when you look at polls in that that have been taken recently in iran the dislike for the u.s. government is now almost universal and it's the highest that it's been since polls have been taken by these institutions in iran for the last twenty twenty five years

and on the other hand even the united states as a country for the first time in many years as a country. more people dislike the united states and they like the united states government aside so what trump is doing is that he's destroyed u.s. public diplomacy capabilities and the image of the united states and i think it goes far beyond iran's borders and again he i think he is isolating the united states not only when it comes to iran but also when it comes to many other countries and it draws them all together that the multiple trade wars even his statements with regards to mexico just last week he said he shut the border then he reversed his decision these sort of statements i think actually benefit iran a lot in the long term although it has caused a lot of difficulty economically for your audience but i think in the long term the

united states has wrecked its position globally and in the eyes of the public and in the eyes of many governments with its behavior both towards iran and other countries all right thank you all very much indeed really interesting conversation mohammad marandi in tehran trita parsi in washington d.c. and l.a. jeta mayor in london thank you very much indeed and thank you as ever for watching the program if you want to see it again even gauge of the web site al-jazeera dot com if you want more discussion this f.a.'s book page facebook dot com for. sorry and there's the choice is fair of course i handle at a.j. inside story i'm martine dennis from the whole team here in doha is far from out.

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four days of protests against the president continuing that i did with the military is headed to surround the. algerians interim leader calls for elections within ninety days but still not enough. to grows in northern ireland was brags it hangs in the balance. with ninety nine percent of votes counted in israel's general election it's still neck and neck between prime minister benjamin netanyahu as they could party and his main rival benny gantz earlier on what to state both declared victory neither side has secured an outright majority though it appears netanyahu could secure the fifth term in office though with the support of smaller right wing parties her a force of reports from tel aviv. after

a night of wild be diverging exit polls benjamin netanyahu waited and waited until it started to move in his favor at two in the morning he took to the stage to declare what he called an unimaginable victory. with already tonight i have started talks with the heads of the right wing parties our natural partners already tonight almost everyone declared publicly that they will recommend i form the next government they will recommend it to our president i intend to work quickly to establish a stable national government i want to make it clear it will be a right wing government but i intend to be the prime minister of all israeli citizens right or left jews and non jews alike israeli citizens. the proven master of israeli electoral politics well aware that his carefully cultivated right wing block of smaller parties gives him the edge in the decisive business of building a governing coalition but across town in tel aviv there had already been another

declaration of victory benny gantz israel's former army chief and leader of the blue and white party put together in essence to remove netanyahu from power said he should be given the opportunity to do just that if you want to serve in the winners and losers in elections but we have to win as we might be new but we're not naive we understand we've got to wait for the true results but within a few days will work to calm a government as big as possible but it's up to israel's president ruben rivlin to invite the most likely prime minister to form a coalition balancing two factors who leads the biggest party and who has the clearest path to a governing bloc for netanyahu that's complicated by a couple of his natural allies such as his education ministers under threat new right to party hovering around the threshold for a place in the israeli parliament or knesset for a time palestinian israeli parties warning their voters that low turnout could threaten their presence in the knesset as well they complained of intimidation by

liquid activists bringing hidden cameras to the polls this bruising bitterly contested election is not over just yet the challenger is raising his arm in victory but netanyahu insists he's done enough to retain the title after for now. final few days of campaigning in which he feared to the right from a sing to an extent legal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank and convinced his voters that his premiership was in mortal danger. leaving the. telly be ready to leave but it didn't. work this. you should. check it against the b.b.c. . is. there a very young one as another. little . well as harry mentioned in his report there are one hundred twenty seats in the israeli parliament or knesset to get in parties need to win at least three and

a quarter percent of the votes that's about four seats sixty one seats are needed to form a government but no party has ever achieved an outright majority the president will choose the candidate he thinks has the best chance of forming a coalition this person then has forty two days to form a government if a current leader with the second best chance gets twenty eight days to try and failing that it can even go to a third candidate stephanie decker joins us live from west jerusalem so first of all stephanie looking at the picture that submerged expectations are benyamin netanyahu is going to have a fifth term or what sort of fifth term is this shaping up to be in terms of the ever moving shift to the right of israeli politics. it really isn't it looks like it could be and i say could because i think there is still a small margin of possibility that who knows perhaps benny gantz will decide to

join. netanyahu government people tell you it's unlikely other people will tell you maybe we've just heard from benny gantz addressing his supporters saying that it's looking bleak but the results are not fine. yet he did say though reading between the lines we will not back down from our public duty to represent over a million people who also for something different but i think yes what you're saying is there's absolutely a shift to the right here when it comes to the political movement when it comes to the narrative throughout this campaign so i mean the left has been used as a dirty word as a four letter word you had prime minister benjamin netanyahu on the beach yesterday after he voted telling people that if they didn't vote they would wake up to a left wing government as if it was the end of days and if we're honest benny gantz is not left wing he is center almost center right very similar policies to benjamin netanyahu so this is the concern particularly if you ask palestinian israelis if you also palestinians in the west bank or are living under israeli occupation who couldn't vote. significantly after this elections we are expecting donald trump to

reveal his deal of the century if you have a far more right wing government in place will they be making any concessions i think he's a question mark but yes certainly a concern here sammy that more and more the narrative and even the policies are going more and more right i know that it's expected he's going to form the next government is there any those sense of disappointment with the results within the next yeah. i think so i think for sure the political ego of benjamin netanyahu will have been dented why because as you say the two parties are at thirty five seats each and this is a man his opponent benny gantz who's a you come to the political stage he is by no means the political veteran the party's political magician as benjamin netanyahu is called here so he has certainly it's shown these elections were seen as almost

a referendum on the prime minister yes he seems to have survived because of the nature of israeli politics because of the way that they make coalitions here the right wing parties but when it comes to just his party he's neck and a lot of the people i spoke to yesterday and they're all right wingers there was no consensus when it came to benjamin netanyahu some would tell you yes he is the only man to lead this country but many would tell you it is enough we want change we want all the right wingers it is time ten years at the top three years before that is enough so i think we're going to have to wait and see i think again significantly those corruption charges hanging over his head he's not cleared of those he might have pulses selection so far let's wait and see we're not going to know what this government is going to look like for at least a month but he still has some serious challenges to face many people say also analysts political experts that he may not even survive the next ten months because of these indictments so i think everything is still up for grabs very interesting times here but yes i think certainly a sign that a lot of the israeli public do believe that such

a long time at the top for benjamin netanyahu perhaps it was time for a change all right stephanie decker from jerusalem. so dan's president is under increasing pressure as western nations add their voices to call so political change protestors continue to sit in outside the compound housing on one of the shias residence and the army headquarters overnight at least twenty people have been killed since saturday police have been ordered not to confront peaceful demonstrators the u.s. britain and norway have issued a joint statement urging authorities to deliver a credible plan for a political transition a protester who wants to write i remain anonymous told al-jazeera the sit in will continue until the president steps down we're going under the system for the past thirty years suppressed he did not have any advice for the first time ever we have some freedom of speech expressing ourselves. so basically

we are expecting a good thing where more than a million we are so concerned about our safety. to issue the retail very quickly members of the militias. since the start of this. every single life. we are in a critical region. the security forces are composed while. they're shooting a with the. peaceful. protesters in the crowd they're firing tear gas i mean usually we have many injuries there is a split in the military.