-iran relations. today we have a range of methodologies that can help us better understand the past. despite methodological differences, so-called traditional diplomatic and military historians regularly work alongside scholars. in this rich interpretive landscape, the annals of history continue to unfold through declassification of documents or through reinterpretation of old documents through lenses of race, culture, gender and emotion to name just a few. in addition to these historical subfields, other disciplines help drive the conversation. if one comes from the iranian studies or middle east studies background, these are inherently interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. one could borrow from other disciplines besides history, political science helping to move the conversation forward. that brings me to the introduction. we have two speakers today. one is a professor in the department of political silence at tulane university. -- political science at tulane university. i will not read his bio to you

-iran relations, iran is often less concerned with what the u.s. is saying or doing than what its immediate neighbors are doing. in the 1990's, western intelligence, global intelligence was convinced saddam hussein was pursuing weapons of mass destruction. you all know about that. it led up to the 2003 war. it wasn't just the u.s. that was concerned. who would be more concerned about that than iraq's neighbor? the neighbor who just fought a devastating eight-year war with saddam hussein. no one was more concerned about saddam's ambitions when it came to wmd's than iran. iran had a moral conflict in the 1990's to continue to maintain the islamic -- stricter against research and development of a nuclear program, or do we say, we are not going to build a bomb but get as close as they can? build the technology that might make saddam hussein think twice before developing a nuclear weapon or unleashing it. that was the calculation they made. iran's nuclear program in the 1990's was brought out of the mothballs and reinvigorated. it was largely rudimentar

on iran. this attack on iran. it seems iran's behavior is getting worse, not better, based on the trump administration's campaign. you've been very aggressive with these sanctions. why do you think sanctioning them leads to better behavior? >> margaret, you start the clock at the wrong point. 1970 -- >> brennan: i'm talking about what happened this summer. >> 1979 is the trajectory of the iranian revolution. 40 years of terror. the previous administration chose to arm them to, provide the wealth and resources that have underwritten these very attacks that we're seeing today. they were able to build up these missile systems. b so you thinke trump administration policy is working is what you're saying despite the fact these attacks are continuing to happen, because with cheney, lindsey graham, republican allies of the president said the failure to carry out some kind of obvious retaliation or military strike looks like weakness. >> we respond nod a number of ways. this is not about weakness. the strategy is working.

-iran relations. in this binational relationship, as with most, history is a matter of perspective how one defines it. to some, we need to understand why thomas jefferson had books about cyrus the great in his library. to others, we might need to study the arrival of american in thearies in iran 1830's and the work they continued through the mid 20th century. some would contend this early history was displaced by the official u.s. presence in iran, which arguably began during the second world war and came in the form of tens of thousands of troops. others would point to dates like 1953, when an anglo american crew -- anglo american cu overthrew a democratically elected government in iran at the height of the cold war. others are interested in the contemporary pass that began in 1979. it was in that year that the near 40 year rule of the u.s. ally, the shock, came to an end. it was replaced with the islamic republic of iran, which marked its 40th anniversary of the revolution in february. so we had the

was behind the attack but iran has warned that any attack against iran by the united states would meet and meet your response and not only an immediate response to said that they will not only respond to the source of the attack meaning that any countries in the region that host united states assets or bases may also be targeted. the u.n. has sent officials to saudi arabia to investigate the attacks hillary mann leverett to see t.j. that's a political risk consultancy she's previously served as a u.s. diplomat and she says saudi arabia's current diplomatic isolation has played into its response. what struck me the most was how cautious in relative terms the saudis were in describing iranian involvement they use the term sponsored that iran sponsored this attack that there's no doubt iran sponsored this attack but sponsorship has an incredibly broad meaning and definition and i think the saudis are deliberately in their own in their own way reacting with some caution because they're completely isolated on this issue they have no guarantee that the united states would back them up to ret

all the fertility shot is iran expert at the brookings institution in doha he believes iran seems to have overplayed its thus far well calculated strategy of escalation. and rick no act as a correspondent for the washington post here in berlin he says trump's so far hasn't been responses. they both reflect concerns over a military conflict i had all of the presidential elections 2021 the lack of a consistent strategy in iraq. thanks so much to all views well for being here today suzanne if we could start with you you're just back from around r r from saudi arabia rather are people in that country worried about an attack by iran by a war in the region they are definitely i mean there's a war going on in the country in the south in yemen since 4 years and 6 months. they don't see so much of this war but this is definitely a replay percussion which goes straight directly to the heart of the of the country they see that there is destabilization in syria in iraq all around so they really fear that this could come to that this could strike the country destabilize the country. what about ir

is really isolated on iran. the europeans are completely alienated from the trump administration, they're upset trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal, so order necessarily you would try to build a coalition. this is attack on the international oil markets. all countries will feel the pain from the attack, but this is difficult for trump. there's a great feeling from allies he put himself in this box, he escalated and provoked this attack. the other issue is that trump said last time he declined to take military action, crossing the red line would be loss of american life. the iranians, if it was them, calibrated the attack, no americans lost their lives that we know of in this attack. the question of whether trump will respond militarily. >> there will be internal disagreement on capitol hill, there will be disagreement with the american public how to respond, extreme weariness after iraq. and ken points out rightly so our allies don't have the most trust in us. >> president trump is in a bad spot. let's not

germany france and britain have also blamed iran for carrying out the attacks iran denies design again the country's president hassan rouhani is expected to meet with german chancellor angela merkel later this evening. joining me now is the. alexander from naaman she is at the united nations and joins me now from there alexander the u.s. president donald trump is due to speak there shortly what can we expect from him. so for me it's the 3rd time that i'm covering his address to the united nations and therefore i would expect him to focus once again on his america 1st poll the sea as he did last year and the year before he will probably talk about the importance of taking care of for the american people 1st before solving the world's problems he will probably talk about other nations who used to take advantage of the united states and that he. was president has been trying to change it we just got a few excerpts brought the white house. and indeed to data and evidence that he might be focusing on his america 1st policy so he is expected to say that i quote if you want freedom take pride

if there were no sir no sir the solution of iran is not the end of the war the yemen iran has been doing this for a number of 50 years since 1979 iran has been sunday well militias in ok the benefits. let's take a let's stay in syria and stay and let's stay with the facts ok your government in the us government have a very high probability but there is a position but the fact of the matter is that your country has destroyed one of the poorest countries in the world that is a fact and you have not won militarily let me go over to nicholas in miami how do you respond so far to what we've heard in the program nicholas in miami. well i i would i would respond to oc. by i really though that we should all remember how this war began. president hadi was only installed as president of yemen for a 2 year term for the purpose of writing a new constitution and holding new elections the who sees invaded son and placed him under house arrest demanding that he do his job they did not deploy as him as president. and it was only after he fled to aden and then to riyadh and. you know i'm not sure whether

with the help of the iraqi people and syrian people that was iran, the country of iran in the countryng over the airspace and bombarding the country of syria without permission of the government is the united states of america and today america is a supporter of terrorism in our region and wherever america has gone terrorism has expanded. wherever we have gone on the other side we have defeated terrorism. one example is isis in our region. vis-À-vis the nuclear issue we are committed to the nonproliferation treaty as well as the protocols. our activities are peaceful. those who are going outside the framework is the united states of america that is against the framework of the in pt conducting nuclear weapons tests. >> we will get into your contention that is the us, not iran it is a sponsor of terror in a moment but donald trump has spoken often about being willing to meet with you, sometimes without preconditions. what do you think are the chances that this week at the united nations even in a formal setting or perhaps as they have in these diplomatic sessions where you just happene

so iran iran the leaders and her on are ultimately responsible for this attack if one of those 2 instances explained to us and i think it's important just as zoom out for a minute and and understand what is going on here what is going on here is a iran is lashing out either directly or via its proxies in order to avoid coming to the negotiating table and they are responding with violence what are why are the would why they be considered acts of war and against international and global energy markets when the question for the u.s. for our allies in europe is how are we going to respond are we ok with us which is take a listen to what u.s. president trump said today he was asked about needing more information about how these attacks happened take a listen and i think my thinking pretty much remains the same and. we haven't learned much that we didn't know but there is there is a certain. guarantee fact there were really at a point now where we know very much what happened so a guarantee factor we know what what happened and then today the president asked for more sanctions against iran it's

iran bloodless. it's also a war of words between donald trump and iran's president rouhani. the enemy has chosen a path that he calls economic war but is in fact an act of economic terrorism against the nation that's our rouhani responded it's a military parade in toronto but the threat of a real and devastating war is still imminent and both sides will the persian gulf erupt. the iranian president right is america engage in economic terrorism against iran well this is what his foreign minister was also a calling economic sanctions against iran by the united states and i think i mean it's part of the iranian p.r. to you know counter that kind of move by the u.s. by using such harsh language on the other hand of course there is a whole discussion about economic sanctions and their impact on the civilian populations and their role of course human rights issues that are of concern. the imposing country house to you know be big to take care off but also when it comes to economic sanctions there are also local autocrats who do benefit from any kind of imposition of sanctions so i

and saudi arabia have blamed iran. with a senior military adviser to iran's supreme leader has defended that attack on saudi oil facilities. with the retailer turi operation yemenis and thanked carried out a legitimate defense of bin selves against a priss that killed their children the reality is that america and its allies in aggressors against palestine in yemen have become tired and worn out economically militarily and politically the policies were wrong and failed the repudiation of america and its allies is declining. the rhetorical war between tehran and washington continued the iranian foreign minister tweeting in response to accusations of war mongering by the us actually say it might prompt he said miss upon has it the other way around it's not iran that wishes to fight to the last american rather it is his b. team hosts who seem to wish to fight iran to the last american there he was referring to the b. team is being saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound man and he reiterated that iran has no desire for war

nuclear deal get a credit line to iran some $15000000000.00 so that iran is happy then to come back to the table and talk perhaps about a deal that goes further than the iran nuclear deal you have the new deal proposed by iran by iran and president rouhani speech he's spoken about it again this news conference this whole mood peace plan all the countries around the gulf region that border on the gulf coming together under a u.n. umbrella certain other countries are not against that idea it certainly echoes of proposal put forward by russia and even one floated earlier on by the u.n. secretary general but people are telling me on the whole i don't think the timing is not right at this time of high tension to try and get saudi arabia and some of its allies to agree to such a plan and the u.s. certainly has shut the no enthusiasm for. the plan so lots of people here lots of people iran i think very near if not at the top of the agenda this week in new york but no breakthrough ok james bass is a diplomatic editor at the un and his own bus ravi in teheran i wonder if this was an opportun

iran more. well iran's banking sector or the industry are already going to under sanctions and the economy has been struggling but the thought that the central bank and the foreign minister has said that this these sanctions aren't anything new they're just part of the u.s. has just put a new face on them in fact the foreign ministry has said that iran has all this found its way forward and has been able to develop an even expand its sovereignty they called economic terrorism and said that the us are struggling to find ways to deal with differences that they have with other countries so these sanctions are not anything new they may not have a big practice practical step but they are a warning to other countries that do deal with iran and have trade with iran because the united states could impose financial penalties against them but also it's a hindrance to the french european led. french european led negotiations at the general united nations general assembly and they're trying to escalate tens

complacence with iran and. ok you will encourage them to adopt more hostile acts this is been said more than 10 years and each time we attempt to contain iran their response is more aggressive we also said to our friends worldwide that if you wish to. provide iran with a little turn a payment method you encourage them not to join the negotiating table in order to discuss the in the clear day we're also told them that the more you deal with iran and trade with them iran would think that behaviors and practices are acceptable all these factors must be taken into consideration we are in constant communication with our friends worldwide and we are examining the steps to be taken however we are waiting for the final conclusions of the current investigations on the attacks namely the origin and the source of the attack and that's why i cannot speculate on particular measures unless the conclusions are reached however we are prepared and we will take the necessary actions to address the matter. middle east newspaper t

the temperature couldn't be harder between united states and iran. our job is to isolate iran. bad actor and with the president needs to do is get an international coalition to continue to work against iran's support of terrorism. the challenge of course as the united states has been isolated when the president withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement, so we are having difficulty with our european allies to get the type of support we need, but we have to isolate iran. >> john: there are reports apparently to saudi arabia and the united states, i don't know if you saw my question to the secretary of state, that iran is planning another attack in saudi arabia. if iran were in the middle of all of this to launch another attack at saudi arabia, would that demand a military response? >> senator cardin: there's really not a military solution to the problem of iran. we need to make diplomacy work. clearly there could be a miscalculation. we have to defend ourselves, no question about that, but we have to reduce where we are, where we could have this miscalculation. it would be disastr

a very correct reality of what's happening in iran. both of you enjoy that episode of going underground will continue showing your favorite episodes from this season which we're back for a brand new season on wednesday the 11th of september until then keep it at 5 so should media and the forget our you tube channel sees. to it there are good and. the bad terrorists and those in yemen or the united states deems to be a threat to the good. lord in syria. the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right away military windows funding an army of death squads there's no posts anymore because there's always a small column of people try one.

and iran but at the same time she said she didn't think it would be realistic for iran to expect sanctions to believed it before such a meeting takes place but i would say the key goal behind those conversations i'm going to medical held in new york is to try to have some sort of diplomatic initiative that germany could work on not on its own or maybe with france for example to try and make sure these 2 players do come to the table and try and find some sort of compromise but that again is easier said than done and we've had very different views on what outcome could be achieved from a german perspective it is absolutely clear they want a diplomatic solution to all of this but she's nanjing expectations that the same time as other want to go to you in new york obviously the european leaders are keen to get some form of diplomatic resolution to the rising tensions but at the same time european. rader's lectures on the american like french president michael have condemned trump's hardline approach to iran but have also signed it with president trump by accusing iran of being behind the attac

they will make a mess but iran. they will gather a lot of people behind this this issue against iran how. do you think this is actually true because you know there is a lot of speculation within the international community and you know not many seem to be in favor of any potential military action. yes of course i mean again war against iran it cannot be. limited cannot be chipped limited that is to say it will expand inside and beyond iraq very quickly and i think if and when it can but to ever. a military attack on iran it will be done maximum force are certain that these americans are not going to attack iran by some the hitting here and there leading make their public a bit the capability to retaliate that is completely out of question so the americans will have to decide whether to i calculate our food and complete and destroy the country into 48 hours or stay put and use sanctions as in the past to kill this damage to the public and they said so again that's a decision that is going to be very hard to be made i

congress today have argued this that if iran is responsible then iran has been provoked by the us withdrawing from the nuclear agreement. well that would be quite an interesting argument to argue that sanctions warrant what most people would consider an act of war in which missiles a lot are launched across borders and there are explosions taking place. the goal of the us max pressure campaign regardless of whether one agrees with the decision to withdraw from the iranian nuclear agreement is to bring to iran to the negotiating table it's amazing the lengths that iran is willing to go to avoid negotiating the evidence that was presented today by saudi arabia you as a military man and also as a military analyst would you say that that was a convincing case presented by saudi arabia that leaves without question that iran is responsible. it's a good question i've learned not to make definitive statements unless i'm on the ground able to look at things myself but if the equipment that was presented on video camera there wasn't back from those attacks which it appears to be it should be very easy

our job is to isolate iran. iran is the bad actor.president needs to do is get international coalition to continue to work gains iran's support of terrorism. challenge. we're having difficulty with our european allies to get type of support we need, but we have to isolate iran. john: there are reports from houthis to saudi arabia and to united states, i don't know if you saw my question to secretary of state, that iran is planning another attack in saudi arabia. if iran were in the middle of this, launch another attack at saudi arabia, would that demand a military response? >> there is not a military solution to the problem of iran. we need to make diplomacy work. clearly there could be a miscalculation, we is to defend ourselves, butt buty. >> if would be disastrous if we got into a fight war in iran. it would have consequences throughout the region, not in our national security interest. john: we have u.s. ramping up sanctions to iran, withdrawing from the jcpoa, which you yourself did not vote for. iran is countering shooting the d

and germany blame iran for the oilfield tax in saudi arabia. just two weeks ago the president and his team into that of potential meeting with us on ronnie. >> is prepared to meet with no preconditions. >> iran announced a refusal to meet with president trump just last week. but today the president again hinted at a possible face to face with iran even if it is not this week with new york. >> the united states has never believed in permanent enemies. >> the united states lost 60,000 factors after china entered a the wto. the world trade organization needs drastic change. >> the president's criticism of china comes as a u.s. and china continue a trade war. wilbur ross involved in trade talks was spotted with his eyes closed several times during the speech. trade talks are expected to continue between the u.s. and china in the coming weeks. >> shannon: david, thank you. after the break our power panel is back with a lot more to talk about on this impeachment push. plus fox news exclusive. chris wallace sits down with iran's president and has some

handiwork iran's forceful denials in rebuke of u.s. and saudi accusations is likely to dominate the conversation well into next week that's when we're expecting iranian president hassan rouhani who was also just granted a visa it seems to speak at the u.n. in new york. the united states has announced new sanctions on iran that include the iranian central bank also targeted here on the national development fund of iran and. iranian company officials are saying that it's used to conceal financial transfers for iranian military says the president donald trump says he prefers financial sanctions as opposed to the use of military action in order to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. we have just sanctioned the arabian national bank that is their central banking system and it's going to be. at the highest level of sanctions we are continuing the maximum pressure campaign this is the last remaining source of funds so both the central bank of iran and israel well as the national development fund which is their sovereign wealth fund

placed on any nation will they have a damaging effect on iran will iran feel this badly. yes they're going to have a damaging effect i think that the sanctions have had a damaging effect which is press particularly and precisely why we have spiraled in this escalation and. we're not out of the woods here in any way because iran has escalated precisely because of the sanctions because the united states withdrew from the iran deal and they're feeling the pain they don't they don't know how to respond and they know they believe that if they give him. to us arm twisting that the u.s. will continue to twist their arm until there's regime change so this is a life and death situation for iran they've decided to escalate i believe and the united states is going to face further pressure so putting on more economic sanctions and more pain is certainly not going to end this this process of tit for tat what do you believe the real aim of these sanctions is is it as the u.s. defense secretary claims to bring iran to the negotiating table or could it be just further destabilizing finan

and iran. since the united states announced they were going to cut off iran's oil experts entirely , iran has been escalating in the region in terms of expanding its clear program and incrementally violating the nuclear agreement from which the u.s. has withdrawn. for iran, this is an effort to push back united states and to get sanctions lifted and deter hers from helping the united states. laura: the u.s. policy of maximum pressure was designed to bring iran to the negotiating table, but has it had the effect of backing them into a corner and made them lash out? michael: no doubt. as they look at oil revenues to dwindling, they probably feel they have ttle to use. it is not impossible that you could eventually have a negotiation. laura: how ten is this moment? miael: i think this is qui tense. this is the most significant attack on the energy m frastructure in the gulf arguably since sadssein invaded kuwait. this is a significant moment for the region and u.s. policy. laura: michael singh, th

behind the attack iran has warned that any attack against iran by the united states will meet and meet your response and not only immediate response to said that they will not only respond to the source of the attack meaning that any countries in the region that host united states assets or bases may also be targeted. well the u.n. has sent officials to saudi arabia to investigate the attacks. james base has more from new york. it was only all monday saudi arabia the u.n. experts they move very fast but they're already on their way according to the secretary general in line with the resolution 22 so if you weren't of the security council with a clear meant that for that purpose the u.n. experts. indicated by the department of political and peace building affairs ever already left for saudi arabia and obviously they will be doing their job according to the men that that this is where the concept has given them i strongly condemn these attacks i see in these attacks is the magic escalations in the gulf and i believe that we absolutely need to stop this kind of escalation in just a few da

nuclear deal that the united states left last year the iran nuclear deal failed to cover iran's missile program in fact it relaxed constraints on iran's missile program and now here today we see the consequences in the middle east with iran using missiles to attack saudi arabia so we think this was a very productive and good week with our european friends they all said that iran is behind the attack on saudi arabia so i think the press has overstated our differences and i think the announcement this week is an example of that however as you said tensions have been rising recently so are we getting close to 20 to conflict i don't think so that really is a question for iran we are committed to resolving our differences with iran diplomatically the problem is that iran is answering our diplomacy with military force and i think what they did against saudi arabia meets the definition of an act of war so it's what i saw this week at the u.n. our nations increasingly diplomatically isolating iran for behaving like an outlaw state that doesn't respect basic international norms. france and germa

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clearly have not worked have not you know stopped iran and its tracks if anything iran has proven how resilient it is and we have to understand that iran is a country with a very very long history you know close to maybe 345000 years america's like barely out of nappies you know it's what 2300 years old really and it's actually a subtle state built on blood so it's very. it's very revealing that america things with all these weapons and everything it can go away and make all these sanctions against iran it doesn't really sold anything for america what does it achieve really it's not going to make iran bend the knee it's going to rob bring all of the countries america is currently in some sort of war footing with china russia etc it's going to bring everyone closer against america so really this is isolating america more so plus if you go into the idea of. pompei was saying that you know there's a you know evidence and proof that it's you know iran behind these these attacks and no one else is disputing it 1st of all he's sitting in the united arab emirates a shopping mall with a flag

he wrote bomb iran to stop iran.even if that didn't come first, as jim says. the president's view came first when it came to iran and the situation in the middle east over bolton. and that ultimately cost him his job. do we know what o'brien is like on that front? >> i don't know enough about o'brien's background to give you a close read on that, poppy, but i will say that if one of his credentials going into this is that he was instrumental in the asap rocky extraction from sweden, that suggests to me that, again, this is someone who is coming in with the basic qualifications and no shade on him in terms of his capabilities. but in that situation, he was functioning more like an errand boy than an independent adviser and senior state department official. so that, again, we don't know yet, but it suggests to me they are slightly downgrading this position. someone to manage the national security council but not necessarily be a bolton, a team of rivals, a counterpoint to the others in the administration. >> or a kissi

iran guessing or invite further escalation from iran? let's bring in secretary of state mike pompeo. welcome back to "this week." >> martha, great to be with you. thank you. >> mr. secretary, the pentagon announced friday in response to attacks on the saudi oil facilities, the u.s. will be sending more air defense to saudi. the president also announcing more sanctions. what kind of message does that send to iran, a nation you say conducted an act of war? >> martha, we have 40 years of terror from this nation. they conducted an attack on oil fields, one of the largest attacks on the global energy supply in history. president trump's strategy that we laid out two years ago is working. we are well on our way to forcing the iranian regime to ultimately make the decision to become a normal nation. that's all we ever asked. the president made a couple decisions on friday. we tightened sanctions on the regime. that put the revolutionary regime in a difficult position. the iranian people applaud that. they understand that their leaders are takin

that iran was behind the attack on these saudi aramco facilities last week iran has said that that simply isn't the case they completely denied any responsibility and in the last 24 hours both iran's foreign minister zarif and iran's president hassan rouhani have said that the reason the united states and saudi arabia and the saudi led coalition members like you a year are willfully pushing this narrative that iran was behind it is because it is an embarrassment that a country and countries that have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the latest technology much of it from the west much of it from the united states were able to detect and prevent or thwart an attack by yemeni hooty fighters that were arguably using much less sophisticated weaponry and that is a source of embarrassment so what they're trying to push is a narrative that iran is attacking global oil infrastructure and not the narrative that the richest arab nation in the region the richest gulf arab nation has for years launched a war on the poorest gulf arab nation and that poor gulf arab nation yemen who defied those

and iran alone.id not provide any evidence for the claim, and iran denied any involvement. a top official tells cnn, its's difficult to believe that iran did not play a role. the official says they could not have pulled it off with just ten

and saudi arabia suspect iran is the true culprit certainly looking like iran was behind these attacks. our intelligence community at this very hour is working diligently to review the evidence u.s. secretary of state mike calm payor has been deployed to saudi arabia the state department said he will coordinate if it's to counter iranian aggression in the region despite iran denying any involvement foreign minister jahvid zarif tweeted in defense of the who thinks the u.s. isn't upset when its allies mercilessly bombed babies in yemen for over 4 years with its arms and its military assistance but it is terribly upset when the victims reacts the only way they can against the greases oil refineries. but for saudi arabia and the us any attack on the world's energy supply is a red line crossed it will not decide how to punish whoever they determine is the perpetrator chela bellus al-jazeera. now donald trump has just tweeted that he'll step up economic pressure on iran he wrote i have just instructed the secretary of the treasury to substantially increase sanctions on the country of iran r

iran's peace plan comes at a critical time. pushing a message of peace and hope in her moves at the u.n. general assembly in new york rouhani will be trying to sink the latest american backed international coalition being formed in the middle east this time to patrol international shipping lanes in the gulf the u.s. floated the idea of a maritime coalition after attacks on oil tankers earlier this year america and gulf allies blamed iran for the explosions investigators said they found no conclusive evidence to say who carried out the attacks countries that have joined the maritime patrol mission so far britain bahrain saudi arabia more recently australia and the united arab emirates following attacks on saudi oil plants last week also blamed on iran without definitive proof iran's leaders will be concerned about the u.s. plan gaining more support. not all him are those who want to link the region's incidents but the islamic republic of iran just like the apostles which have been revealed if the truthful and really sick securit

from the iran nuclear deal a pact which promised to ease sanctions on iran in return for curbs on itsnuclear program trumped and impose fresh sanctions on iran then this year iran announced that it had boosted its stockpiles of enriched uranium and that's off the components used to make nuclear weapons then in the past few months the u.s. has blamed iran for a wave of attacks on oil tankers in the strait of hormuz a key shipping route in the gulf region though of course iran denies those allegations and then the u.s. is also blaming iran for 2 attacks on to oil facilities in saudi arabia iran has also denied those claims now france britain and germany have joined the united states in leveling those accusations against their run they are calling for iran to enter a new talks aimed at both soaring the nuclear deal a french president is pushing for trying to meet iranian president hassan rouhani trump says he will not rule out anything now for his spot iran's president hassan rouhani wants other leaders to stop interfering in iran's affairs and the middle east region this is what hasan r

but iran's leaders are fueling the tragic wars and both syria and yemen president trump blamed iran directly for the recent attack on a saudi oil facility and accuse the iranian leadership of having a blood lust while fostering global terrorism also coming up a full in a blow to british prime minister boris johnson all 11 judges agreed that his move to suspend parliament was unlawful jonson's out of the ruling will not get in the way of rights that. there are a lot of people who don't prostrate brits or there are a lot of people who basically go to school these countries coming on to be. so what options are now left. thank you very much for your company on leyla iraq we start our broadcast in new york where u.s. president donald trump has addressed the u.n. general assembly amid rising tensions with iran he blames iran directly for the recent attack on a saudi oil plant accusing the iranian leadership of having quote blood lust he denounced what he called for decades of failure in tehran since the islamic revolution gen. here's more now of what president donald trump said. not only is iran t

blames iran. iran says it's not us. how markets are responding. >>> tropical storm humberto skirting by the bahamas, but now it is heading north. >>> prince harry celebrating his birthday. how the prince plans to spend the rest of the day. live from cnn world headquarters in plant. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. cnn "newsroom" starts right now. >>> 4:00 a.m. heren the osu east coast. washington, d.c. is pointing the finger at iran for attacks that knocked out half of saudi arabia's oil capacity. here's what happened. iranian houthi rebels fighting a war in yemen say they hit two oil facilities with drones. but a u.s. source with knowledge of the incident tells cnn there are signs the attacks came from inside iraq. "the wall street journal" reporting officials are looking at whether cruise missiles fired from iraq were used instead. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo holds iran responsible tweeting this. tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on saudi arabia while president rouhani an