to protect its own existence is breaking news this hour under this one story dominating our entire coverage. this hour in science is being killed in tehran by. i know one of the statements by charisma day was one of the country's foremost experts calls the killing of its official a nuclear scientist of terror. as the country's top diplomat implies. 'd israel is in israel is yet to come and when we look killing may impact on the iran nuclear deal. after 4 years of worsening relations under donald trump, u.s.

president elect, joe biden has hinted he wants negotiations back on track. but with friday's development has his chance gone before he even reaches office around the clock across the world. this is our team international from the team and myself, you know, neal hello and welcome to the program. breaking news is where we begin. a scientist labeled the father of the uranium you can learn a program has been killed on the outskirts of tehran. local reporter told me more about what is known at this stage about the deadly incident, which is being called an assassination and terror attack by iran. senior iranian scientist was killed on a highway near tehran. there's not much detail about number of people involved in

the attack, or number of people killed in the incident in the skirmish tack to place some 75 kilometers outside to iran, north east of tehran, near the resort city of stat. you know, apparently due to traffic was quite less day usual in comparison to the other days . and the terrorists apparently caught into the vehicle of the scientists. newsmedia, stayed out there was an explosion. and then there was a gunfire. berridge of gunfire. bits been the security officials and sasan tactic, which is killing on the roll is similar tactic those attacks that carried out almost a decade ago. there was the result of such assassinations on

a rainy and scientists be claimed why have top iranian scientists or iranian officials have already pointed the finger of blame at israel. there has been no comment yet from israel's prime minister. benjamin netanyahu, though, had previously accused the late scientist of being the driving force behind iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, which tehran has constantly denied, was ever in existence. i spoke to our correspondent for more on this well, we're getting all indications that this was a well coordinated, complicated attack on the man that some western intelligence agencies have flagged . as the person behind iran's alleged covert nuclear weapons program to rand firmly denies wanting anything like it. so this situation is nowhere near. something in which the killer just points a gun at the victim and then shoots and kills. here it was much more complicated,

like i said, because explosives were used and there were even reports that this could have been a suicide attack. then gunfire followed the explosion which left the vehicle with the scientists bullet marks. so this explains why the iranian defense ministry called this a terrorist attack from the very beginning, but all of that, couldn't kill that man. immediately. he was taken to hospital where he died. so once again, here, we're talking about a prominent iranian nuclear scientists. he had a team of bodyguards trying to protect them, but that couldn't save his life though the world i think, is waiting to see what to run is going to do. has to be any clue as to what the reaction, the initial reaction from tehran, senior officials, what have they been saying about this? who did this? and what's going to happen? while the iranian foreign minister is making it clear once again that iran purely

treat this as an act of state terror, jawad zarif is pointing the finger at israel, and also he is demanding international attention. terrorists murdered an imminent iranian scientists today. this cowardice with serious indications of this really rule show desperate warmongering of perpetrators. iran calls on the international community and especially you see and their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror. well, so far there has been no response from israel and charlie at this point. we cannot make any conclusions about possible connections between this murder and also the rhetoric that we have been hearing from israeli officials on iran's nuclear activities. but the fact is that 2 years ago and $28.00 taking the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called up the name of the murdered scientist and accused him not only of being behind the alleged military element of iran's nuclear

program years ago. but also he accused them of continuing to covertly run the program up until present times. remember the main focus of the soldiers and this is generally is to announce the closure project. but then the special activities, you know, what the special activities will be carried out under the title of scientific know how developments and in fact, this is exactly what iran proceeded to do. continue this work in a series of organizations over the years. we just put this in context, the story of the iranian nuclear program, at least in the past 2 decades, has resembled a game of nonstop ping pong. if i may put it this way, that is to iran, constantly repeating and trying to convince the international community that its

nuclear activities are purely of a peaceful nature. and then also the anti to ron international law, be led by israel, constantly repeating that iran is only trying to fool the world. however, it seems that a bit more than 5 years ago, israel and its political allies, started losing this game of ping pong because the most important international players, including the u.s. and russia, were able to hammer out the so-called iran nuclear deal. and in fact, international observers were let into the country and they didn't find any proof of military activities on iran's nuclear sites. though at some point the status quo was broken because of a decision by the donald trump administration to quit the deal which led to a situation in which to iran decided to abandon some of its commitments. there you have that tension and an extra wave of the sort of say iran's nuclear crisis. and

now we have this murder of a rainy and nuclear scientist which will definitely have international consequences . point. we've got some early initial thoughts from guests in both israel and iran . of course, this assassination is illegal and it's an act of war. he was a high ranking iranian official when let's see, aspires arrested in iran or in a terrorist is arrested in iran, immediately western human rights organizations, governments, the media pundits, experts all say that they're innocent as if they have some sort of insider information. yet when these attacks are carried out, these attacks are carried out with the help of spies with the help of terrorists, and they gloat over it. and instead of condemning it, they go and you know, they try to make him look as if he's evil. so this is the hypocrisy that we see in

the western media and among western governments. these laws will respond. so you cannot put the blame on israel. everything is possible in the middle east and in present these bodies and then to fade them. and if they claim that is behind it, let's see if those people are really israelis right now, i doubt very much, but we know a lot of names over gauged in this project and their names were published. these were early press a few times that this doesn't mean that these were these behind this assignation of the incident relations with the u.s. are essentially at rock bottom. the donald trump administration pulled out of the hard, fought nuclear power trip back in 2015. and future talks are growing ever more complicated for some reaction stateside. let's cross to our correspondent killer in new york,

kill of any reaction so far from officials there. and indeed heidi, might this affect any further peace nuclear negotiations? well, the trajectory of u.s. iran relations over the past few years has been quite negative. things have been moving in quite a bad direction between the 2 countries. donald trump has presided over a situation where the usa and iran are moving further apart. and prominent iranians have been killed. we recall that last january qassam sold a mani who was a leader of the islamic revolutionary guard corps of iran. was assassinated by a drone strike by donald trump. donald trump approved a drone strike that killed qassam solomonic. he was a leader of the islamic revolutionary guards. he ran military operations against isis ill, to protect christians in syria, and in iraq. and he was designated as

a terrorist by the united states. now when he was killed, there were protests throughout the region. there was, there were protests in the arab world in pakistan, and yemen in turkey. there were also protests in response to that killing by donald trump. a huge amount of outrage. many voices internationally spoke up and felt this was a very unnecessary escalation of tensions between the united states and iran. and we also recall that prior to that assassination, donald trump had withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal. he pulled out of the jay c.p.o. away and he said it was the worst deal of the century. this is donald trump. i recruit from the last administration. if i didn't terminate that stupid, the deal was a disaster. the agreement that was, it was a disaster. now the escalations haven't only been directly between the united states and iran, but we've seen an embracing by the united states of netanyahu. and his feeling that

there needs to be an escalation with iran in the region. you know, we saw donald trump move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. and recently we saw mike pompei o. go on a tour of the middle east. and, you know, tout the fact that at this point, there are some governments in the arab world that have recognized israel. and it seems like the effort of the united states is to mobilize and polarize the region between israel and iran. take a listen to my palm, pale thanks to president troop. the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear review with the wrong place, crippling sanctions on the reunion regime and then limited the magoo to a record speaks for itself. during the trip administration, america stands with israel like never before. now many were hoping that things may change with joe biden in the white house after all, joe biden was vice president under barack obama,

and it was the obama administration that negotiated the iran nuclear deal, which donald trump pulled out up. however, many, many are looking at what's happened since the signing of the iran nuclear agreement to 2015 and seeing the united states pulling out of that agreement more sanctions being placed on iran, the killing of qassam solomonic. now there is the incident which took place today with the killing of this nuclear scientist. and many are wondering if that is really possible. is there really hope for the united states and iran to sit down once again and make any progress in, in bettering the relationship between the 2 countries? it will certainly be difficult for biden and ministration. if indeed they intend to take these moves. killam, up in new york, bring us right up the dates there. and indeed some of killings points. he just brought up. we're going to delve into no, with another guest live on the program to say that ken stone from the coalition to stop the war,

joins us good to see you. ken iran u.s. relations worse than donder. donald trump didn't like, especially after the drone strike, which killed general money with this alleged assassination. is that peace or nuclear deal moving further and further away? the u.s. deplorable and cowardly assassination of general. so they money back in january was just the 1st and a series of terrorist attacks on iran this year, organized by probably the by probably israel. or you are sponsored terrorists or the united states. and they have taken out one entire nuclear plant that creates created electricity for the arabian people. they took out 7 ships through sabotage and several major industrial facilities. in

addition, israel and they cannot deny this one. israel has bombed syria on multiple occasions during the past year. the latest example of which was only 2 nights ago when they bombed what they said was, and the iranian facility on their damascus. so the united states under trump and the israeli government have been working overtime this past year to create provocations that might result in retaliation by iran, which would give the israel it would give the united states and its a rare israeli client state. a pretext for which to launch attacks, which they've talked about for years, especially the israelis against iran for peaceful nuclear facilities. so this is nothing new and these are all acts of war. but iran has shown admirable restraint

starting from the, the right mattel, the asian, against the assassination of general, so they mani. also, the, these latest this latest assassination, which is equally heinous as the want of a general solon soleimani, now shows that the trumpet administration is desperate to poison the well of diplomacy such that the new administration biden's administration in the us won't be able to sit down with we liberate, i want about just in a moment, ken, but just before you linked into it very well there. because as you well know, over the last number of years, the trump, the trump team, you know, his sons in law all valid have been going to the middle east attempting to,

to make relations as they say, better and doing deals with a lot of countries. no hours into such muscle of killing on iranian soil, the pentagon has not said anything. why do you think that is? i think they like to maintain plausible deniability. but the fact is that the in the united states government for that has never forgiven iran for the islamic revolution in 1979. and they've been trying to regime change for 40 years, including through wars, terrorism sanctions, lawfare every possible hybrid warfare scheme. you can think of the united states has been behind all these things, and they like to maintain plausible diet. deniability many are predicting a change of course, under a biden presidency. as regards a run, do you agree? well, it appears that president biden has given the president elect biden,

has given it indications that he would in fact like to sit down and rejoin the j. c p. oh wait. i can say 2 things. i can't speak for the iranian government, of course, but it seems to me that if he is willing to rejoin on the basis of resolution 2231, which ratified as a treaty the j c.p.o. way in from to the entire world through the united nations. i don't think there would be a problem, but if the, if biden is coming to the table with additional demands after all, the years it took and all the money it took to negotiate the j. c. p. o, a, a. i think the iranian government would probably say, i don't think so, we're not interested. we've been through been there done that. donald trump ditch the around you, calling it the worst deal of the century. village just thinks of it were huge. you

remember 5 years ago, khaled actually be renegotiated, do you think, given the huge amount of international cooperation, and indeed risk that went into it? and as an aside to that, would to run even want to at this point? well, i think tehran would tehran have to give up a lot in its nuclear program in order to achieve the j. c. peel away and they were studiously they were studiously following the details and they were monitored simply by the international atomic energy agency and they complied 100 percent of what the, what iran wanted to do through the j c.p.o. way was to prevent a pre-emptive attack by israel and the united states that was number one, and number 2, they wanted to get rid of this terrible system of sanctions, which is strangling the country oros and tempting to strangle the country. and so i

do think that the iranian government would probably like to go back to that situation if they had the opportunity they must, the nations though are, you know, they're pretty endless when you start digging into it. because as you well know, the situation in the world has changed a lot in these past 5 years. the u.s. has moved closer to israel. you've got europe seemingly moving farther away from, the u.s. or at least having a lot of disagreement. all major players in the original negotiations. can any deal happen in the current out the sphere? well, i think in the current atmosphere it's clear that the trumpet ministration, which is a lame duck administration. they will prevent any progress towards peace in the middle east. however, we have to keep in mind that even under a biden administration, that they have the purpose that u.s. foreign policy in the middle east. it's to regain hedging monye over the entire

region, including iran, which it lost in the islamic revolution, which overthrow, who overthrew it up, a dictator, the shah. and so they win. the game is hedge of money dominance and whether it's trump or biden, that they, that is the game of the last ampyra. and for the, from the point of view of the people of the world and the peace movement, we need to be on guard here. and we need to tell our governments when they are approached by the us, as they will be in the next few days. to say we need to tell our governments to say, to the u.s. keep your hands off iran. we would like to have peace, not war. a lot of the moons the, the trouble ministration made as regards israel, getting closer. it was dull known to the nose of iran, iran,

other scientists who were killed other officials who were a sussan ated. it was done under the you know, the time of fear on and on. it was, it was a leak, a lot misfire at the time. if we're talking about now going back into negotiate, what do you think would have to happen as regards the moves that have been made towards israel by the u.s.? would they have to be on done for to run to, to fully cooperate again or, or what do you think? of course, they would have to be undone. things such as the matt maximum pressure campaign that would have to be dropped all the new sanctions that that trump initiated after walking away from the j. c. p. o, a n 2018 would have to be dropped. the us has practically got sanctions against every lamppost and tree in iran. by now it's utterly ridiculous. also, the, there's all kinds of other things that the us would have to stop doing. and that

is, they would have to drop the lawfare that goes on and on, and other countries as well. you know, canada, for example, just seized a huge chunk of the rainy and property in ottawa and sold it off to p. . they had sold to the alleged victims of an a legit or reining in terrorist attack, which never happened. so all these come the whole entire program of hybrid warfare would have to be removed against iran for iran to cooperate. and you can imagine why it's because every day, almost every day or every week, there is a further incident, which is in fact under international law, an act of war such as this latest one. and by the way, when i was in tehran about a decade ago at a conference in support of the palestinian resistance,

we were not allowed outside of our hotels without, without minders. because the week before israel had this as an aide and one of the top scientists in iran, while he was driving his car home from work. and this is that op, the opus the modus operandi of this latest assassination of most, and most, and falk resodded, resembles exactly the incident that took place in tehran. a week before i was, i arrived there 10 years ago. we just do have to say on the program. there's no certainty at run this killing us to start is what we're reporting on all through the hour though. just another point, maybe before we let you go, you've been very good with your time. and there were some reports that the israeli military had been ordered to prepare for a possible u.s.

strike against iran. you know, those headlines were coming to increasingly in the last, at a little while, before trump leaves office. what can you take from those reports? what do you, what's your, what's your take on that? well, just as the israelis used and the americans use plausible deniability in all these cases and the israelis needed the israelis nor the americans denied in this case, to my knowledge that they had a hand in this does make a bowl incident they, they like to. they like to put additional pressure on the come on a country at the same time as making a threat and a threat that there would be there might be a preemptive strike on iran. and the other threat was that they would be, they were bringing in a whole fleet of b. $52.00 bombers back to the middle east,

which they do it every time. there's likely to be a war in the middle east. so they are, they are here waving a big stick and they are on the one hand threatening iran with further retaliate if it doesn't cave, into the demands. and the other thing they're trying to do is, at the same time being prepared in case they are actually going to make a war. ok. so this is the advantage that you have when you're in an aggressor, country and you are, you are, you're your game is to restore your hedge of money over a region of the world stone from the hell and coalition to stop the war. speaking to us from quetta, that's mccann, thanks very much. ok, let's just get a quick recap of what we have been speaking about our one and only story today. a

scientist labeled the father of the iranian nuclear program is being killed in tehran. his car was reportedly blown up before then coming under fire. the iranian defense ministry has called it a terror attack. iran's top diplomat has said he believes that israel was israel itself as yet to comment on that accusation. a lot is where we leave to remember, you can catch all the latest developments on this hour's breaking news on our web site. r.t. dot com and i'm back in just over 30 with all the latest oswell. good to see you

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