and of course there is iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, saying in advance of the upcoming jerusalem day, which of course is an iranian anti-israel day, that anyone who loves freedom and justice must serve or must strive for the athey relation of the zionist regime in order to pave the way for world justice and freedom. now, with that kind of provocative statement or statements like these from mahmoud ahmadinejad, how does israel and -- and should israel respond? >> well, you've got two things going on, as you rightly point out, iran's rhetoric is ratcheting up their repeated threats they've made against israel's very insistence but as the new missile test proves, they are also continuing to upgrade their capabilities, to be able to carry through on those threats. so, it is just a matter of simple logic, for israel to be prepared for the worst. they live in a very tough neighborhood. it is perfectly clear iran is getting ever closer to a nuclear weapons capability. and we know that in syria, they have chemical weapons, and, by their own admissions, perhaps a biological weapons progra

mahmoud ahmadinejad is under a lot of domestic and international pressure.uestion is will israel go ahead alone? what is interesting is that i was looking at some of the polls inside of israel, and most of the israelis according to the polls i saw oppose a unilateral strike against iran. they think if israel is going to go against a strike against iran with nuclear facilities they need to go with a partner, and that means the united states, however, that opposition is declining, so little by little as israelis are getting closer to a nuclear armed iran the opposition to the strike is declining, so that the big question is what will happen? if it is several years away, israel feels that nuclear armed iran is a threat. >> thank you, hala. >>> and now opposition groups are accusing bashar al assad's forces of shelling neighborhoods indiscriminantly. opposition groups say that 61 people died today in fighting in several syrian towns. the violence spilling into lebanon as well as a series of kidnappings on both sides of the border, and now putting lebanon on edge

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president mahmoud ahmadinejad is expected to defend the assad regime. an envoy will visit beijing as early as today to ask for diplomatic and economic help. the chinese foreign ministry say the envoy will meet with chinese foreign minister to ask the chinese government to provide economic assistance and to strengthen ties. western diplomats have criticized china and russia, delegates from both countries have vetoed u.n. security council resolutions that would impose sanctions on syria. chinese leaders say sanctions will not stop the fighting. >>> the eurozone economy sank in the second quarter. it was hurt by austerity measures that the country and the currency block took in the midst of the debt crisis. the european union statistical office said on tuesday that gross domestic product fell 0.2% between april and june from the previous three months. this is the first contraction since the fourth quarter. among the 17 nations in the zone, italy's gdp fell 0.7%. that was the fourth consecutive quarterly decline. spain dipped 0.4%, falling for the third str

. >> reporter: iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad argued isolating the assad regime would not resolve the problem. his country has been a longtime ally of syria. but the leaders of saudi arabia, qatar and other nations rejected what he had to say and criticized assad. however, even though the majority of oic members want the syrian government to fall, they are not prepared to back outside military intervention. that's something members of the syrian opposition would support. but for now, they are happy with the oic's political decision. >> translator: we welcome this decision. it was a step to further isolate assad, even though it came a little bit late. >> reporter: it came 17 months after this conflict began. president assad has used the full power of his military to try to crush the opposition. but antigovernment forces are still a threat to his leadership. now, as he faces more international isolation, his fight to hold on to power has just gotten tougher. sho beppu, nhk world, saudi arabia. >>> police are holding five hong kong activists in okinawa for questioning. they were arre

mahmoud ahmadinejad said they should move to importing gasoline and other oil products. oil exports account for 70% of national revenue until last year. they have been cut in half by the u.s. and european sanctions. >>> the u.s. defense secretary says egypt's new president is his own man. leon panetta gave his support for muhamed morsi. when they met in cairo. panetta met with morsi, and mohamed hussein tautaui. morsi assumed the presidency in june. panetta is believed to remind morsi to respect the peace treaty with israel. that relationship has been a diplomatic sticking point. morsi won the presidency as a candidate for the muslim brotherhood. the party takes a tough stance on israel. panetta pledged continued support for the egyptian military up to $1.3 billion a year. but it comes with a condition. egypt must maintain peaceful relations with israel. israeli officials say morsi has sent a letter to his counterpart in israel. he pledged to do his utmost to restart middle east peace talks. the office of israeli president shimon peres said the letter suggests that egypt

leader from iran are owe posed, and president mahmoud ahmadinejad is expected to defend the assad regime. >>> an envoy of president assad will visit beijing as early as today to ask for economic and diplomatic help. the chinese foreign ministry announced that syrian envoy will meet with chinese foreign minister. she's expected to ask the chinese government to provide economic assistance and to strengthen ties. western diplomats have criticized china and russia. delegates from both countries have vetoed u.n. security council resolutions that would impose sanctions on syria. chinese leaders say sanctions will not stop the fighting. >>> survivors of twin earthquakes in iran are scram b bling -- scrambling for food, water, and medicine. iranian leaders have begun coordinating relief work, but they have refused offers of foreign aid. magnitude 6.4 and 6.3 quakes hit the northwestern province of east azerbaijan on saturday, 11 minutes apart. government officials say more than 300 people died. more than 3,000 were injured. an estimated 16,000 survivors are living in tents. the governments of ru

. >> the intense saudi arabia and rivalry makes mahmoud ahmadinejad's visit to the summit in mecca especially surprising. >> the u.s. and israel are heading down a road that could end in war with a view towards iran. saudi arabia wants to distance itself from that event, and that is why it invited iran to the summit. and iran's leadership was happy to accept to ease the tension in the region a little. "but despite appearances, the saudi king and president ahmadinejad are still stark foes, not friends, and the battle lines in syria have been drawn. >> wildfires that have raged for more than a week on one of spain's canary islands have eased that the winds changed direction on tuesday. the blaze on the island forest 5000 from their homes and ravaged more than 4,000 hector's of land, including part of a rare nature reserve. >> regional officials say that the evacuees are starting to return to their villages, but some of them have been confronted with a heartbreaking site. >> residents are picking up the pieces after a week of wildfires. emotions are running high as many discover that the fires l

and the fact that somebody from the sunni muslim brotherhood can be making nice with mahmoud ahmadinejad in shia iran shows how great the threat is. always remember the saying from that part of the world: i against my brother, my brother and i against our cousin, all of us against the stranger. that is what is going on here. >> eric: and i imagine, ambassador, that we are the stranger? >> indeed. >> eric: and how do we deal with this? do you fear there could be a ra approachment after iraq and iran after 30 years and what dynamics can play into that when dealing with the iranian nuclear program? >> we have seen examples of that. let's not forget iran financed hamas and the gaza strip and a terrorist group a wholly owned subsidiary of the muslim brotherhood even before mohamed morsi came to power the military in egypt had ended the blockade of gaza and allowed iranian warships to transit the suez canal and he is building on steps that were already taken and share a hatred or israel and mohamed morsi all but threatened to eliminate the key land for peace provision of the 1979 camp david ac

at all but he's not just attending the summit he's also meeting with the country's president mahmoud ahmadinejad as well as top officials including the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei so what are his intentions here. well certainly the leaks we're guessing or people from the state department desperately tried to get in touch with ki-moon that he didn't go to tehran i have to say this is a moment of great courage by blanking moon as the united states tries to ramps up the pressure along with nato countries because he and one hundred eighteen hundred twenty nations are all showing that courage by going to tehran and saying look we don't want to other war a little east. and the u.s. state department said it really didn't think that iran was deserving of this high level presence of those attending what do you make of that statement i mean quite unbelievable that a country that has created so many wars since even the last nonaligned summit they have ministerial summits they have leaders summits i was actually at one in tehran not a few years ago myself and at the same time that this summit was goin

some people are saying that karl rove's ten million dollar anonymous donation came from iran mahmoud ahmadinejad a strongly as shia muslim who's president of one of the few shia run states in the middle east some people are saying that ahmadinejad's a huge admirer of karl rove and a big supporter of the republican party after all george w. bush decided to bomb sunni iraq not shia iran giving ahmadinejad a heck of a lot more influence in the middle east and taking out sunny saddam hussein iran's biggest enemy against whom they fought a multi year war that cost them both billions of dollars and killed over a million people so some people are saying that the ten million dollar gift to rove is payback from shia iran for all the great things rove and bush did for them against the sunni muslims in addition some people are saying that the ten million dollar donation to karl rove as some strings attached that if romney wins the republicans take the senate then all those sanctions president obama put on shia iran would immediately be lifted and we might even go after another sunni run country that iran d

mahmoud ahmadinejad has just 1 thwonthe jackpot, an official gl blessing, secretar secretary-gef unitedions is going to be with the shortest terrorist on earth, he is bringing friends, officials gather in iran next week for a i summit meeting thae in u.s. have tried to stop, the decision to attend the meeting, called something that non-aligned movement, shows he is aligned and much of the world and i am afraid to say, again us, and israel and against a head of handful of other western countries that would like to isolate or at least marginalize iran, well good frickin' luck. the country make up biggest voting bloc that i want to powwow in tehran, what does that tell you? what does a country deep in debt, and short on global street cred to do, nothing? we can't do squat, that financial basket case is not iran, it is us, the folks covering most of the bill, and a good chunk of the airfares for iran. i hope it is not first class, i hope once he gets there he stays in a day's inn. i could not handle a ritz-carlton. it is a tad unnerving. it is incredible, but the times say it is what it is,

the iranian president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, todaying saying that israel's existence is "an insult to all of humanity." we have heard stuff like that in the past but the latest comments come during increased debate whether israel should bomb iran's nuclear program. iran claiming the nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. israel doesn't buy that. the country, they are preparing their nation for war. the israeli government opened new gas mask distribution centers, and tested a new nation-wide missile alert system. what is going on here? we have pulitzer prize winning journalist and fox contributing reporter. it seems ahmadinejad is begging for israel to strike? >>guest: he is responding to what he views and iran views as a cold war of words that have been going on all summer and escalating all summer as israel makes it clear its patience are running out. rick: he said there is "no room for israel," in the new middle east. >>guest: that is right no room for zion or american forces. he has said this before. when it comes to iran's nuclear capability, ahmadinejad is actually more p

>>> meantime, tensions between iran and his real continue to escalate as iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, joined pro-palestinian demonstrators that the annual rally. it pro-tests the formation of israel and jewish chrome of jerusalem, while addressing worship hearse at tehran university, ahmadinejad promised a new middle east will there will not exist any trace of americans or israelis. >>> new this morning, a strong earthquake of 6.6 magnitude rocked a north indonesian island overnight. no tsunami reporting, no warning was issued. there are no reports of damages or injuries so far. indonesia is prone to earthquakes because it is in the pacific ring of fire, an arc of volcanos, fault lines circling the pacific basin. >>> in jail this morning, three female members of a provocative punk band in russia, found guilty of hooliganism. nbc's duncan goal list stanny has their story from london. >> reporter: inside the courtroom, defiant smiles when the verdict tame, these three are educated, middle class two mothers. they say the whole trial has been unfair and decided to laugh in the face of wh

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you point out the nuclear program and say mahmoud ahmadinejad said the annihilation of the zionist regime problems and you end by saying this. as repeated attempt to benefit that diplomacy or sanction removed the threat. combination of truly crippling sanction and military threat, threat ayatollahs still do not believe today may convince iran to relinquish its nuclear dreams. time is dwindling. with each passing day lives of 8 million civilians grow in peril. the window that opened 20 years ago is almost shut. that sounds different. we have talked many times. it sounds different. >> no country has a greater stake in trying to remove the threat of a nuclear iran by diplomatic -- diplomatic means in the state of israel. we have the most skin in the game. we have 8 million citizens. we have a great, great stake in resolving this by diplomatic means. we are coming up to a sunk juncture where we waited for the 20 years and it took ten years for world to take us seriously and eight years to impose sanction on iran. the sanctions haven't worked. diplomacy hasn't worked. the iranian nuclear progr

mahmoud ahmadinejad wants to kill all the jews. that's an honest opinion on his part. let's give him some credit. come on, think about it. michelle, go. >> look, politicians don't get to decide which opinions are appropriate and then use the power of the state to enforce those. economic coercion is no way to try to convince someone to believe in certain values or certain beliefs. if anything, these politicians, if they had common sense, would be begging chick-fil-a to be opening restaurants in their area so that their constituents can have jobs. 8% unemployment right now. that should be the focus. employment and the economy. >> bill: look, michelle. these guys have a right to play to their constituency, all right? image, lee, they are liberal guys. minino -- they play to that. this is all posture. gamesmanship. we know why they are doing what they do. and they have a right to do that, by the way. these three mayors have a right to say -- >> -- they don't have a right. >> bill: i'm not going to buy their chicken because i don't like the way they stand. look, if george s

. >> john kerry, senator john kerry, equated global warming to be as dangerous as syria or mahmoud ahmadinejad in i ran developing nuclear weapons. what do you say? >>guest: isn't that just amazing? it was john kerry and nancy pelosi and hillary clinton and several others who went to copenhagen and said we would pass cap and trade and i had to go over with the truth squad. they come up with more and more hysterical things. the credibility is gone and we have to rebuild america. and if you want to do something about manufacturing in our country, look at the overregulation. you talk to any manufacturers and they will tell you, that is one thing, the second thing is, the uncertainty as to whether or not we will have the energy with the war, the obama war on if sill fuels to manufacturing. >>eric: got do look it there, senator, energy your warm weekend in oklahoma. that is it for us. i will head over to "the five," across the breezeway but don't change the channel. it will be a go one. i had a good time filling in for neil cavuto this week. enjoyed it very were. [ male announcer ] it's a golden op

we have mahmoud ahmadinejad talking about destroying israel. iran is racing towards acquiring a nuclear weapon. just recently they've tripled the pace of the enrichment of high grade uranium. they're moving their facilities underground to be immune from a future israeli attack, and in the meantime, the world is doing basically nothing except for talking about it. so we are very concerned. we're nearing the very last moment and we're urging the united states to create a plausible threat which is the only way to prevent the need of an israeli attack on iran. >> back to iran's latest missile, 35 us military bases are within iran's missile range. in regards to all of that, israel has upgraded its missile defense, it's arrow 2 shield has better accuracy and reach to intercept ballistic missiles. the us collaborates with israel on the shield. how comforted should we be by that? >> well, to some degree the shield will help. however, we have to keep in mind this is not a foolproof solution. a country cannot defend it'sself by using anti-miss sills. we

you know, if he wants to talk to mahmoud ahmadinejad, which is what he is saying that he is going to do is he going to go there and press the president ahmadinejad, he really wanted to do that he could have done that last september during the u.n. debate or next month because president ahmadinejad is coming to new york next month so they could sit down and have a very tough conversation then. i actually think that this nonaligned movement, which is a grouping of 120 countries at the united nations, that kind of group together sometimes in regional groups but this one is called the nonalign movement. meaning we're not aligned with the cold war, russia empire, soviet union empire or the united states. so now this group of 120 countries, they are coming together to have a conference in tehran. it seems pretty silly. they could have a conference anywhere. but they are the ones that are pushing the secretary general to attend their conference in a country that is under security council condemnation. i think that the nonalign movement and its leaders, egypt and india should be under more p

we'll help you get ahead of the game irks sna's iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad and the war in syria spreading in to lebanon. having a big impact on oil and might be the beginning of those problems. >>> and then come over here and take a look at this nike sneaker. why the urban league is telling nike take the new shoes off the shelves. >>> first, simon is in for partner tyler on vacation. we have simon at the nyse. >> traders passing. good afternoon from the floor of the stock exchange. we'll start with the minutes and bringing ceo economics reporter steve liesman in a moment but this is a chance of the dow traded since the last time the fed release minutes july 11th. up at the best part. the s&p up 5%. the stock moves mean the fed less likely to embark on qe3 and the nasdaq up about 5.5% since we had last minutes of the fed. one thing is for sure, few people get as excited about this as steve liesman, senior economics reporter and will join us later in the program, sue, to discuss exactly where we are as now count down 59 minutes until we get that release. >> indeed, simon. th

climate change is as dangerous as syria unrest and mahmoud ahmadinejad developing nuclear weapons?t: he has said soviet warheads in the unanimous -- 1980's posed less of a threat. he believes global warming is a clear and present danger to the united states of america and the world. in the only is the reason he is saying this, he is desperate. the movement has collapsed. it was then to be subprime science and subprime politics. the u.n. gave up on the treaties until 2020 and cap and trade is dead in the united states congress. obama doesn't talk about it. the only place it will be stuck under is in the epa so john kerry is desperate. he wrote a book on this, his foundation with his wife has given money to global warming scientist and a very hardcore activists. yet nothing has come of it. the public believes less and less an they should, as the science crumbles. >>eric: talk about the science? what have we found out in the last year and a half? there are pretty damning information released from e-mails going back-and-forth between different research groups. what did we find out? >>g

when this was said last week what mahmoud ahmadinejad said about last week about israel, i will not repeat it, the awful, offensive, obnoxious things he said about israel, should lead to him being indicted under the genocide convention. we should always make sure they recognize that to the united states of america, iran being nuclear is not an option. and unacceptable. we have options on the table. we will not allow them to become a nuclear threat to us or our friends. thank you. [applause] >> my 15-year-old brother started his own company and he made the bumper stickers for you guys. audience: aw! >> read it. >> obama is right. we need change. mitt romney, 2012. [applause] >> her brother, the entrepreneur. can we run a microphone in there one way or the other? there we go. here comes the microphone. "new hampshire -- vote free or die." >> i would like to thank you both for coming to our wonderful campus. it is a beautiful campus. [applause] as a junior here, i am lucky to say i am taking out my first loan. i am faced with the reality of how much debt i will have when i graduate. my questi

iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, said it was a purely defensive weapon. >> ( translated ): we want it to defend ourselves and our human dignity, not in an aggressive context, but as a deterrence. >> woodruff: a campaign of covert cyber-attacks against iran has been conducted by the united states and israel. code-named "olympic games", it disabled thousands of centrifuges at iranian nuclear facilities. several iranian nuclear scientists have also been assassinated in recent years; suspicion in those attacks has fallen largely on israeli intelligence. >> brown: margaret warner takes it from there. >> warner: leonard spector is at the monterey institute of international studies, as deputy chief of its non-proliferation center. he held a similar post at the department of energy during the second clinton administration. welcome, mr. specter. so what's the significance of these reports f true that the iaea has found hundreds of centrifuges. >> this a plant everybody is very nervous about. it's buried and very difficult to attack because of this, it is in a mountainside as we heard. the n