we have people in iran, azeris in iran, kurds in iran. all of whom feel they are oppressed. we haven't even ratcheted up any of the pressure on them even ask iran, the mullah dictators thumb their nose at us and take the money but don't comply fully with the expectations of that treaty. we need leadership here. we can't wait for more than 99% certainty before we act. and there are avenues that are nonmilitary confrontational. i would hope that we act. and i wish our president well. our chairman, ed royce, in his opening statement, chairman royce mentioned the fact that there are people in iran who are not our enemies. the people of iran are not our enemies. it's the mullah regime. just like the people of north korea are not our enemies. we've got to be realistic in our approach and not try to ignore realities if we're going to have a bet earn more peaceful future. i will give -- i have 20 seconds more. if anyone can -- mr. sullivan, go ahead and disagree with me. go ahead. mr. sullivan: i ask unanimous consent to give additional time to disagree. i wouldn't substitute the ju

in iran. the reason we can't support them in the hopes of regime change is because they have articulated no desire to overthrow the iranian regime. in fact, they want to work inside the political system. and any whiff of support from the united states would quickly evaporate their domestic support base. so they're not a viable candidate. we really don't have any viable candidates inside iran to try to support and overthrow the regime. so then there's direct military action. perhaps the most dramatic and drastic option. hopefully, the trump administration's not actively pursuing this approach at this moment, but the first problem here is that a strike against iran would be illegal, right? in both international and domestic law. i don't really -- i'm not, i try not to predict things about washington anymore, but i doubt that congress is prepared to provide trump with legal authorization the attack iran -- to attack iran. and, of course, in the context of international law, you need either the ju

, iran, iran. the iranian government is make up of various factions, i mean, who is really in charge? i guess i'm just -- >> this is exactly the point. iran has dynamic domestic political situation, so if you're trying to think to yourself, how do we improve iranian behavior or get them to make concessions on our interests, the question is how do you do it. there are people who believe that only browbeating, hostile rhetoric, threats of war are likely to get a positive response, they are just -- they either capitulate, or continue to be pains in the butt. there are more sober minded people who understand inside domestic situation, there are hard liners and moderates and if you do things that concede certain things to the other side when you make compromises, it tends to empower moderates who can do the compromises. now with trump, as trita wisely said, the hard liners in iran are bolstered because they are proving right, these guys warned against trusting the united states from the beginning and we

charlie: you being iran.saddam was invading kuwait, join and iran to suggested if he was successful iraqiran and kuwait and would share the spoils. >> and he sent all his fighter jets to iran, but we did not take the bait. coalition,join the but we helped kuwait. we were the first country to condemn the iraqi invasion of kuwait. equally important historical fact for people to remember. charlie: characterize your relationship with the united states today. [laughter] >> do i need to? charlie: please do. >> i think the united states is making a strategic mistake of sending a message to the world it is not reliable as a negotiating partner. deal, deal, to reach a you give concessions and you take concessions on the other side. new deal will be sustainable if you take concessions and ask for more after. nobody else will negotiate with the united states. united states will become known as an unreliable partner. i believe even europeans are saying if the united states were to break the deal, nobody else would trust

talking about iran while talking about america's attitude towards iran let us some get some analysis of and find out what we should read between the lines now what did. tyson. he talked. first ok let's start with what jumped hours last year from this i mean the first thing that jumped out at me is how much emphasis he put on the history of the iranian regime's relationship with its own people and with the united states i mean he went all the way back in history to nine hundred seventy nine and laid out in the litany of grievances that the united states has against iran and basically tried to frame the entire antipathy and antagonism that the u.s. has with the iranian regime and he basically said i'm bringing that entire tag antagonism to bear this new policy is going to reflect that antagonism not just going back to the obama administration but going all the way back to one nine hundred seventy nine the other thing that kind of struck me was how comprehensive it was this was clearly not framed as just a speech about the nuclear program this was about the character of the iranian regi

importantly, iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal. so today, in recognition of the increasing men ace imposed by iran and after extensive consultations with our allies, i'm announcing a new strategy to address the full range of iran's destructive actions. first, we will work with our allies to counter the regime's destabilizing activity and support for terrorists' proxies in the region. second, we will place additional sanctions on the regime to block their financing of terror. third, we will address the regime's proliferation of missiles and weapons that threaten its neighbors. and finally we will deny the regime, all paths to a nuclear weapon. today, i'm also announcing several major steps my administration is taking in pursuit of this strategy. the execution of our strategy begins with the long overdue step of imposing tough sanctions on iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps. the revolutionary guard is the iranian supreme leaders' corrupt personal terror force and militia. it has hijacked large portions of iran's economy and sei

law that was passed after the conclusion of the iran nuclear deal the agreement between iran and six world powers and the european union and he said president trump said yesterday that in his opinion the sanctions relief granted to iran under the deal is not proportionate to the steps that iran has taken to restrict to severely restrict its nuclear activities and so what that does is it opens the door to congress reconsidering the application of sanctions or other legislation relating to the deal and we've heard from senator bob corker the chairman of the foreign relations committee that he is going to be pursuing legislation that would impose additional sanctions on iran if iran does not extend the limits the time that the limits are due to apply to iran and that amounts to a unilateral attempt to renegotiate the iran nuclear deal and that's why iran the europeans are saying that they're going to stand by the agreement they're not going to stand for a unilateral attempt to renegotiate the terms of this international accord now what congress does we're not quite sure we're going to h

through the deeply controversial 2015 nuclear deal with iran. this deal is known as the joint comprehensive plan of action or jcpoa. as i have said many times, the iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the united states has ever entered into. the same mindset that produced this deal is responsible for years of terrible trade deals that have sacrificed so many millions of jobs in our country to the benefit of other countries. we need negotiators who will much more strongly represent america's interests. he nuclear deal through iran's dictatorship provided relief from the intense domestic pressure the sanctions had created. it also gave the regime an immediate financial boost. and over $100 billion, its government could use to fund terrorism. the regime also received a massive cash settlement of $1.7 billion from the united states, a large portion of which was physically loaded on to an airplane and flown into iran. just the imgirn the sight of those huge piles of money being hauled off by the iranians waiting at the airpo

we are very unhappy with iran.ve not treated us with the kind of respect that they should be treating. they should have thanked barack obama for making the deal. there were gone, they were economically gone. he infused $150 billion into their economy. he gave them 1.7 million dollars in cash -- $1.7 billion in cash and they should thank him. they did not say that. >> [indiscernible] >> we are stuttering -- we are studying national emergency. doing national emergency is a very big statement. we will be doing that, my wife, millennia, finds that subject to be of such vital importance. she is very much involved. she is on the committee and wants to be involved in that process. >> [indiscernible] they would love me to say it only for one reason. look at the kind of money being spent. iran is spending money and very countries. i have always said it might say to them, don't do anything and don't worry about it. take all the money you can get. they are all friends of mine. actually, emcalluel up any talk to me and i said

it's not i in iran. we are a country that is confident of its power, confident of its size, confident of its people. we don't purchase security from outside. we get our security from our own people. >> rose: suggesting that the saudis are purchasing their security from outside? >> i'm not suggesting. ( laughter ) >> rose: what is iran's attitude and what is its program having to do with the development an deployment of missiles which is mott part of -- not part of the nuclear deal? >> thank you for reminding us it's not part of the nuclear deal. but you see, you want to deal with missiles, you need to look at our history. >> rose: you argue they are for deterrence purposes. >> they are. >> rose: you can imagine other people don't necessarily assume they should accept at your face value your definition of what they're about. >> fine. what we need to do is look at the facts. last year, saudi arabia spent $67 billion on weapons. the united arab emirates, which is, what, less than a million, we are 80 millio

, arms control agreement with iran we would fix iran. mr. smith: let me ask you this. secretary of state john kerry said on cnn or reported by cnn january 21 of 2016 that money from the deal, that the iranians were getting, would go to terrorists. to whom has that gone? who are the terrorists and how much? mr. sullivan: as i understand it the trump administration d.i.a. chief has said the bulk of that money has gone to domestic purposes not to the irgc. but of course the irgc and -- mr. shoot: do you know how much? mr. sullivan: no. it would behoover the committee to get a briefing from the dia chief who has laid out where he thinks the assessment is. mr. smith: we had numerous hearings and the chairman was stellar in ensuring we had multiple hearings on the iran deal before, during, and now after. even before the inspections -- the e the deal was signed, committee said that will he never permit inspections to inspect iran's nuclear bases. the identify rain minister of defense said, tehran will never allow any foreigners defense and miss

hold iran to account. let's get back to that. fourth, walking away from the nuclear deal would be a disaster for the united states. iran would resume its march towards nuclear capability and the rest of the world would be deeply skeptical about joining us in rebuilding global sanctions regime. without a deal we would be faced with the same painful choices we are currently facing with north korea. these are choices -- we already have to grapple with one nuclear crisis right now as this committee knows well. why would the administration want to create a second one? this defies not only sound strategic thinking but also simple common sense. thank you and i look forward to answering wrour questiyour ques >> in august i was in the middle east and i wanted to ask ambassador jeffrey a question here because you made it very clear that allowing iran to complete the land bridge or the corridor across iraq and syria to lebanon would risk in your words a strategic defeat. and i wondered if you could explain to us what

inspections continue in iran under iran's agreement with the i.a.e.a. pursuant to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and then there are separate mental inspections under the joint comprehensive plan of action and i.a.e.a. already has the authority under iran's voluntary implementation of its additional protocol to seek access to sites that are not declared as nuclear but there is a mechanism under which iran can provide satisfaction to their concerns short of providing access and there is something called managed access underweight juran good except visits to military sites. on specific for specific purposes purposes so to speak a frog or as i do would you like to respond to that's my guest from vienna and also tell us does this in any way if the deal worth one raval if a tram does decertified and then congress imposes sanctions does this encourage iran then to restart its nuclear program. yes i think if the u.s. gets out of the nixon in agreement it would be difficult for the iranian government to a say in it because after all the major sanctions that

iran, i canjust imagine, iran makes a lot of the fact, it is one of the defining national interests,f sanctions and it wasn't lost on many that the rising influence in iraq, in lebanon, in yemen, in syria, happened under sanctions. so sanctions are not, iran will carry out its strategic objective. it has never been afraid of sanctions, but it is a country where people expect benefits from the nuclear deal. if this puts a halt to new investments in iran, it's going to have an effect both on iranian politics with the hardliners. what we said including iran's supreme leader, go ahead and negotiate, but we don't trust the americans. there must be a lot of people in tehran saying i told you so. people in tehran saying i told you so. let's bring in barbara plett—usher. how did what we heard from donald trump compare to what we have been expecting? from donald trump compare to what we have been expecting ?|j from donald trump compare to what we have been expecting? i think pretty much as advertised. a long description of iran's allegedly bad behaviour. he sees it as a terrorist nation as he

to business with iran.o if congress reimposes those anctions, that is the stick they hold over companies in europe, the idea they will get kept out of the u.s. system if they do business with iran. that is a big, significant point. i want to make sure people understand that. treta, please go ahead. giving rsi: not about recommendation, i want to share what i think they are likely to do. think is perhaps good in the sense of making sure that the deal doesn't get killed, i think that would be bad if it was. right now, notice they are relatively low profile, i think that is because of their calculation that trump is shooting himself in the foot, the united states and as a result, they have no nterest in interfering while he's doing that. the area i really worry about, articularly when combined with the suggestions, some of them quite explicit about regime hange, that will lead to much, much tougher position of iran in the region, rather than seeing contrary, we he will see them become more aggressive in the re

the fact iran is angry -- i see reporters saying, iran is angry. this is terrible.s if iran is angry, that shows the president is doing the right thing. iran is the cause of violence and terror in the world. they're angry about what the president is doing, that's an ar fir mags the president is doing the right thing. >> add goolz to talk to you. >> thank you. >>> meantime n california, the death toll climbing. drishgs windy weather threatening to make the monstrous fires there even more dangerous. we'll go live for the very latest. >>> what will the response from congress be now that president trump has decertified the nuclear deal. that's next stwl. ♪fly me to the moon ♪ ♪and let me play amon-- (ding) (bell mnemonic) but he's got work to do. with a sore back. so he took aleve this morning. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. tylenol can't do that. aleve. all day strong. all day long. also try aleve direct therapy with tens technology for lower back pa

what he called a new iran strategy, including additional sanctions. this is 20 minutes. >> thank you very much. my fellow americans, as president of the united states, my highest obligation is to ensure the safety and security of the american people. history has shown the longer we ignore a threat, the more dangerous that threat becomes. for this reason, upon taking office, i have ordered a complete strategic review of our policy toward the rogue regime in iran. that review is complete. today, i am announcing our strategy, along with several major steps we are taking to confront the iranian regime's hostile actions and to ensure iran never acquires a nuclear weapon. our policy is based on a clear-eyed assessment of the iranian dictatorship, its sponsorship of terrorism, and its continuing aggression in the middle east and all around the world. iran is under the control of a fanatical regime that seized power in 1979 and forced the proud people to submit to its extremist rule. this radical regime has raided the wealth of one of the world's oldest and m

iran, in time, will become a nuclear state.north korea is a nuclear state that i don't think can hit the united states right now, but they are coming to that point. the country that has the problem with iran is israel and israel is a technological superstate,ic however the geographics are very small. basically, the size of rhode island. you need is to nuclear warheads to hit israel and israel ceases to exist. you can't stop it, you can only slow down, and one other thing, israel and saudi arabia today, they've got like a quiet alliance. they have to keep it quiet. saudi arabia, sunni muslim, iran is shiite muslim, they are at each other's throat.

i think it reveals iran, the pressure iran has come under. up to now they were living in heaven.he radicals controlling iran were getting money flowing in 50 billion they got and it's just upfront but down the line they get hundreds of billions of dollars with oil contracts with projects and other things and so all of a sudden this bonanza has stopped and now they're under pressure and i think that's important. look, i drew a red line in the u.n. against iranian enrichment and everybody said wow, is that going to cause a problem but in fact iran backed off and they never crossed that line because they know the power of crippling sanctions and other things that they would have to confront, so i would say right now, the ones who should be worried is iran not the u.s.. >> maria: the president also mentioned north korea you mentioned north korea at the beginning of our conversation. he said look, if you allow something to keep going on it will only get worse. it will only get worse and more dangerous as we've seen with north korea. do you believe iran is working with north korea on i

and if infact thatis regard —— irans‘.e the congress takes ona that is big wave the congress takes on a vast different to the majority of international companies that engage in me iranian market but are political complications and remains be seen how iran will react to this move which seems to be in violation of the spirit of the deal but for now there is a little bit of a holding pattern in place. he mentioned the businesses who have invested in iran city you think what impact you think it would on them? they've been expecting donald trump to make a move like this for a long time andi to make a move like this for a long time and i think the companies that have been most invested in iran have spent a lot of time and energy trying to understand the political situation so the move would be a huge surprise. what's remarkable is that this year, despite the downturn and the political environment on the underlying commercial momentum has been very good. and so there is a high degree of resilience and i think commitment in the bu

president must certify to congress that iran is complying with the agreement every ninety days trump has done this twice before but has now refused to sign ahead of sunday's deadline now congress must decide whether to reimpose sanctions and scrap the deal here is more of what trump had to say. importantly iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal so today in recognition of the increasing menace posed by iran to destructive actions i am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification we will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence more terror and the very real threat of iran's nuclear breakout israel has welcomed trumps announcement prime minister binyamin netanyahu congratulated the us president for what he called a quote courageous step the response from other world leaders has been less than enthusiastic the iran deal took more than a decade to negotiate between iran china russia great it great britain france and germany and was finally signed in two thousand and fifteen. there was dancing in the streets of the iranian capi

the people of iran, the people syriaq, iran, yemen, and and the region -- we continue to resist terrorist groups that have been created by the united states, and they will not stand until these terrorist groups have been terminated, annihilated. powerful force that is popular among the young iranian people and has been standing behind their people before the war on iran fought against anti-iran agents after the revolution, fault them. fought them head on. and and stood against the invaders and the rijac has fled said yes to the call of support from the oppressed people of the middle east. is this a corrupt force? or the government and armed forces that have always done inrything to interfere the independence and sovereignty of different countries in the region. is this a government dictator that is only elected by the people? the government is being supported by the u.s. and they have a tribal system that manages the country, that has never seen, never had an election in their country. a regime that continues to oppress the people of palestine, lebanon and others. you support that regime.

to certifying the iran deal.epartment spokesperson under president obama, part of negotiating that iran deal. david webb, radio host on a sirius xm patriot channel. first of all, the president almost doing the state department's job there and elevating the idea of diplomacy along with strength. >> it's something you heard from president obama, talking directly to the people, that has been a constant theme of american policy. while we have disagreements with the governments, the regime and their activities in the region, we have said our disagreement is not with the iranian people, many of whom are very young, under the age of 30 and want to be part of the world community. >> harris: it is an interesting point on this day that he chose to do that. remember the green revolution, we didn't get involved in that and even people like hillary clinton said we should have. now the president is saying i am doing something that will also be for the iranian people. >> there is something different and what president obama did

iran is not expected to pull out of the nuclear deal but he has decided not to certify iran as being in compliance with the accord he wants congress to toughen u.s. policy towards iran by requiring it to allow greater access to its nuclear sites he will also ask congress to find a way to punish iran for its ballistic missile program the current deal only covers its nuclear activities and his administration will punish some members of iran's revolutionary guard but it will not be declared a so-called terrorist organization so let's discuss this further with our diplomatic editor james bays who covered the nuclear talks extensively and so james it seems as though president trump wants to damage the nuclear deal but not kill it off completely. yes that's certainly what is coming out from the white house we'll hear the president himself we think in about forty five minutes time and he will explain this and some details but what he is doing is decertifying the deal i need to explain that it's a little complicated the deal was done in july two thousand and fifteen in vienna not just with t

how is this likely to be received in iran. this will lead to reactions and anticipation of what the president said and what they thought he was going to say. on the one hand, the nuclear deal. you can see the moderates and the hard liners who have been at odds after the agreement was put in place. i'm not sure that is going to weaken. and the agreement being set aside. earlier our crews spoke to the hard liners. we told you this all along. they thought this was a bad deal for iran. the many moderates here have been saying 245ir7 looking forward to the deal and thought it would bring relief. many thought it could bring him closer. many of them don't believe it could happen anymore. >> we will get reaction from the architects of the iran nuclear deal, but i want to go to christian amanpour. you studied all of the history and the negotiations leading up to this deal back in 2015 what's your analysis of what we heard? >> clearly it was a brought brush stroke painting iran as the satan that president trump believes it is. it went a

has been on the side of stability iran has been on the side of it. fighting terrorism and extremism for the past at least since two thousand and eleven two thousand and one we have a clear straight record of engaging in every attempt to counter terrorism in the region and unfortunately so the rabia and the united arab emirates have been on the wrong side the saudis and like minded countries in the region they've heard these positions from. iran retreated over and over again non the less they will say the islamic republic has not stopped trying to export the islamic revolution ever since the islamic revolution took place and therefore they say that that continues to destabilize all these places whether it's iraq whether it's iran whether it's lebanon on. what's the way out again let's look at the fact iran is not spending billions upon billions of dollars exporting them throughout the world it's saudi arabia look at every mask look at every incident of terrorism in the region and in the world who are behind these acts of terrorism they're all financed

iran has sent a formal letter of protest to the u.n. secretary general it says the islamic republic of iran will not be the first to withdraw from the deal but if its rights and interests in the deal are not respected it will stop implementing all its commitments and will resume its peaceful nuclear program without any restrictions the greatest concern that iran itself withdraws from the deal shifting what was an internationally monitored and restrained nuclear process back into the darkness mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. and home in there as a whole arms others the international relations director of the amount of news agency in iran joins me now from taft rand via skype good to have you with us so what do you make of this you think iran will continue to abide by the accord. actually the main point was mentioned by personal pointed last night each the interest of you want is met in the new deal if they remain in place because not on that point i could jump in with i mean practically speaking if the u.s. doesn't comply if it pull

to iran and iran to the united states, then $1.3 billion of interest. hey said it wasn't a ransom. $1.7 billion in cold, hard cash in pallets that have to get delivered at the exact same of the american hostages, by the way, not all of them, at the exact same moment of the american hostages being released. and we're saying that that's not ransom. that was a coincidence that we're signing documents in the middle of january on the same exact day, within 24 hours of each other. now, after we provided a jackpot of sanctions relief in exchange for this very one-sided deal, there was an election. after that election in iran, members of the american media and around the world, they said, this was evidence of progress in iran. that the most moderate candidates were elected. but you know what that completely ignores? the 12,000 most moderate candidates not being allowed ccess to the ballot. we're propping up the wrong regime. and after our american sailors were detained, held hostage, and embarrassed in videos and photography all around the world, we said, thank

now, on iran the u.s. has got to respond to the full range of threats from iran, not just their nuclear program because we see in syria and in iraq, we see it right up along western syria now with the quds forces and the irgc. they're taking advantage of this fight against isis. and they're moving in, they're brutalizing syrians, but they've seized so much territory. and meanwhile, hezbollah, which is iran's terror proxy, is amassing fighters and troops along israel's border in the north, along the border in the east, and iran continues to acquire destabilizing conventional weapons but also intercontinental ballistic missiles. the administration has taken a realistic approach on iran, recognizing the full range of these threats. this is what we have been messaging in a bipartisan way on our committee. this is what brad sherman and i and mike mccaul and others, elliott engle have been talking about as we touch these policies. congress and the administration must work together to confront these threats while

iran's nuclear deal which saw iran shell of its disputed nuclear program in exchange for the easing of international sanctions trump accused iran of violating the spirit of the agreement but stopped short of casting the deal instead he has called on u.s. lawmakers and international partners to fix its flaws now every ninety days the u.s. president has to certify to congress that iran is complying with the agreement trump had done that twice before now rather but now has refused to sign ahead of a sunday deadline. congress must decide whether to reimpose sanctions and scrapped the deal here's some more of what trump had to say importantly iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal so today in recognition of the increasing menace posed by iran and after extensive consultations with our allies i am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of iran's destructive actions i am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification we will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence more terror and the very real threat of iran's nuclear

or bombing iran. the price was they took some of the sanctions to get the concessions. you ask about our their flaws in the deal about inspections of sites? this is one of the canards. this is one of the issues that robustly negotiated. there are no military site that are off-site, that the iea cannot inspect. if somebody else provides to the iea and says we suspect -- and not on some kind of white w -- kind of a whim --that there was activity at one site, there is a process for that to happen, much tighter than what exists with virtually any other country. the notion that there are hundreds of sites that the iaea cannot inspect, it is true what the iranians to the pond is you cannot go on a chase and say we think there's a nuclear device in the supreme leader's bathroom so we will inspect it. that was something they said they were worried about. iaea to not want the inspect it. thatu have some evidence, they refuse access and refuse any of the compromises, then we are in a different world. we are not

cross talking the iran deal i'm joined by my guess. in pittsburgh he is a partner at global growth advisors international strategic consultancy group based in new york and in london we cross that he's an iran expert at middle east are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated in pittsburgh if i can go to you first here one of the things i'd like to focus on this program we know that i guess it's common knowledge now that donald trump is going to decertify this agreement. and looking at me in the mainstream media looking at all the cable stations it's remarkably low light on facts like for example the i.a.e.a. saying that iran is in compliance with this agreement but we hear about all this other stuff on the side so iran's behavior in the middle east and its other activities in the region but if i could remember correctly one of the reasons they wanted to focus just on the nucular side of things because it was doable this wasn't an agreement to solve all problems in the middle

the iran nuclear agreement has made it possible for iran to provide hezbollah with a wind fall, but iran is not hezbollah's only source of income. since its inception, hezbollah has developed a broad criminal network involved in arranged illegal activities from cigarette smuggling to counter fitting. they double as global criminals. we must employ a combination of law enforcement, of financial, criminal of civil and regulatory tools to deter, to disrupt, to publicly illuminate the global hezbollah network. i want to thank chairman royce and ranking member engel for closely alabting in developing this critical legislation as well as senators rubio and shaheen. i look forward to continuing to work with them to get this critical legislation signed into law. and with that, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady has yielded back. all time having now concluded on this legislation, the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 3329 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmati

news live from berlin donald trump reignite america's viewed with iran decertify the landmark agreement to curb its nuclear program but the us president stopped short of outright for peatling the deal instead of leaving its fate in the hands of congress. also coming up austria is expected to take a sharp swing to the right in this sunday's elections will take a look at how a hardline immigration stance has helped front runner sebastian kurtz snap up support. and female lawmakers in germany are cleaning out their desks after the september elections as the percentage of women in parliament drunks. waiter thank you for joining us u.s. president donald trump has said he will not recertify the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal the multilateral agreement called for iran to shelve its disputed nuclear program and in exchange the international community would ease sanctions accused iran of violating the quote spirit of the agreement but stopped short of canceling the deal and said he's called on u.s. lawmakers and international partners to fix its flaws the agreement stipulates that th

iran has sent a formal letter of protest to the u.n. secretary general it says the islamic republic of iran will not be the first to withdraw from the deal but if its rights and interests in the deal are not respected it will stop implementing all its commitments and will resume its peaceful nuclear program without any restrictions the greatest concern that iran itself withdraws from the deal shifting what was an internationally monitored and restrained nuclear process back into the darkness mike hanna al-jazeera united nations at least two people have been shot dead during protests against kenya's electoral commission rallies have taken place despite a government ban police in nairobi dispersed protesters using tear gas opposition supporters took to the streets ahead of a planned a presidential election rerun in two weeks time for me to miller has more from the capital nairobi. small scale protests have continued in different parts of kenya and that's despite a ban on protests taking place in the central business district of the three

and saudi arabia all of this when we sit down with iran's foreign minister mohammad zarif. let's start with iran's nuclear issue you know what president donald trump has been saying in terms of it being a bad deal for the united states from his perspective. how seriously do you take that but i think it is. an illegal alien form statement because. certainly any deed would not be a perfect for all sides it has to be less than perfect so that also it could live with it that it has elements that we don't like it has elements that the united states doesn't like but it's not a bilateral trade it's not even a multilateral treaty it is a part of the resolution of the security council which was negotiated. in two years very difficult negotiations so i believe that the united states would be much better off if the united states agreed to abide by did the because if it didn't the international community would never trust any commitment by the united states because. it is possible that the administration or the future administration would like to deal and i think any time you could wal

this is iran iran did want just the u.s. doing inspections. it wanted this to be a multilateral process. it wanted this to be many states that it was to do with not just one. the negotiations were actually set out the way. we often talk as if the jcpoa was a u.s. armenia bilateral relationship. it is in. it was negotiated by the p5+1. p5+1. that's a permanent members of the u.s. security council plus germany working with iran to achieve this do. and so the way it was negotiated basically these inspections in the hands of the international atomic energy agency to make their impartial assessment that comes with iran felt comfortable with this. that being said i think we would all be foolish to assume that the u.s. intelligence community is not doing its own assessments of these issues. and everything that has been publicly stated about this suggests that use intelligence community please iran is in compliance. we are not just the words of the international atomic energy agency on this. we also use our own resources to figure out if iran is in co