for more on the situation with iran i'm joined tonight by bradley bowman he is senior director of the center for military and political power at the foundation for defense of democracies he's also a former national security advisor in the u.s. senate bradley it's good to have you back on the show let me ask you about the hope that it's that was stirred up this week at the u.n. general assembly there were people who were hoping that tensions between iran and the u.s. could begin to be dialed down a bit it didn't happen did it. no it did and i and others were watching the remarks of the iranian leader closely and they continued denials which is patently clear and that is that iran conducted attack against society. energy facility which by most people's definitions would constitute an act of war they continued to deny it they said that they would try to prevent others from exporting oil they have sabotage ships they have launched they in their proxies have. put. explosives in the direction of u.s. embassies and other things and this is the latest a significant escalation and the u.s. in

and iran i'm joined tonight by bradley bowman senior director of the foundation for defense of democracies he's been a national security advisor in the u.s. senate and he served in the u.s. army tonight bradley joins me from washington burley's good to have you on the show maybe you could let me know what you think about what we heard today from saudi arabia did the that saudi colonel did he deliver a compelling case today or did he just simply fall in line with the u.s. i think it's important to view this attack for what it was not was a direct unprovoked attack on global energy markets i think now's the time for and for gathering facts and analyzing options you know wars are easy to start hard in conflict military conflict is a start hard and the one thing is certain if there is not a strong proportional and measured response i think we'll get more of the same well you say this was an unprovoked attack but can't we argue and i know that some members of the u.s. congress today have argued this that if iran is responsible then iran has been provoked by the us withdrawing from the nuclear a