iran nuclear deal. e white house wants to curb tehran's influence in the region. weekend iraqholds a use after the u.s.-led iteasion, iran iing a long shadow over the vote. across iraqoad trip from east to west to find out what is at stake. iraq is in the middle of a crucial election campaign which will decide how much influence iran has over iraq. were taking a trip across the country from the iranian border yrian desert to see how much tehran dominates. our next destination iin the shia heartland. iraq's shia v are tt majority of the country's population. minority.sunni shia paramilitaries are not allowed to participate in the election. the party leader four on the iranian side of the iran-iraq war. he could bthe next prime minister. the chief spokesman used to be the spokesman for the militias. he rails against corruption and damns the traditional shi party. if fatah do well at the ballot box, iraq will be more closely tied to iran. >> t first country to come to r aid was the islamic republic of iran. iran was there unconditionally for us. arbala is a holy place. cross theo

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if fatah do well at the ballot box, iraq will be even more closely tied to iran. n shias cross the border every week to pay homage at the city ‘s shrines. and it's notjust pilgrims. across iraq it's iranian goods you see in the shops, iranian music on the radio. even the cabs are made in iran. to me, there is a feeling of cultural and economic dominance. but there is also a grander, more strategic game being played. shia muslims live across the middle east, but many are concentrated in iran, iraq, syria and lebanon. we call it the shia crescent, some shia call it the arc of resistance. and control of baghdad is crucial for iran in maintaining its military support for hizbollah in lebanon, and assad's regime in syria. so baghdad is our next stop. with iraq shia being in the majority, the choice of next prime minister is to some extent between degrees of iranian influence. apart from fatah, there is previous prime minister nouri al—maliki, who is also pro—iranian. current leader haider al—abadi is seen as more open to washington. but groups openly sympathetic to the

former prime minister he makes no attempt to hide his affinity for iran imagine if he gave iran bases in iraq allowed troops and tanks to move from iran to syria the israelis the saudis they will like that one bit. candidates number three trumps nightmare. a meeting this guy who's an iraqi himself fooled on the side of iran during the iran iraq war enough said i believe the american administration could be the biggest loser from iraqi election we have three camps fighting to win this election i mean it can only have one strong ally which is. always what did it and he is trying to keep that alliance with the united states but whether he is going to win this election i have my own doubts i think that that i will have the group that i will give you are very close to the indian and gating a lot of support but i'm not here so i believe they have. until now so you see the problem here one guy doesn't want to get involved in anything one guy is all buddy buddy with iran and the last is supra raney and he'll fight you quite literally and even with the weight steeped in its favor america says iran is

to have power in iran and iraq either because that would. possibly diminish iran's influence in iraq so they do they would have a common ground to work and to forget even but after the ninety seven revolution in iran ronald reagan worked with iran in the iran contra scandal so there's nothing just precluded in real politic though we have john bolton who's an idealogue of course and yukon so that may or may not happen but it's something to consider that iraq would be a problem for both countries but that would not stop. them to drive towards regime change in iran even if they cooperate on iraq and it's going to the second job in washington you know what the the paradox here is that there is no evidence that the iranians really had a serious nuclear weapons program but they signed the deal for for sanctions relief the i.a.e.a. certified that they were in compliance of course and then we have trumpets as it was the worst deal in history and they withdraw from it and now it looks like the iranians may possibly return to firing up their centrifuge

we had proxies from russia, from iran, from iraq. israel is hitting military advisers on the ground. netanyahu was there. that sent a strong message to iran. iran is more isolated now. they are becoming very broke. if you look at what the protesters are saying, iran has five dollars. when they see ballistic missiles and ventures him everywhere and the u.s. pulling out of the iran deal, it is hurting -- and them everywhere u.s. pulling out of the iran deal, it is hurting the a ringing people. the two friends they have are russia and china. they are both saying, hey, you have to slow this israel stuff down. you cannot do this. and we are not likely to see russia support. and by not taking sides, israel will have the advantage in syria. what does hezbollah do with all those rockets? host: us take a call. . thank you for taking my call. are proudt to say we to be americans, but we have to look at what is right and what is wrong. we cannot tell me that all the allies that support this deal that we have the more right to just go on and get

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former prime minister he makes no attempt to hide his affinity for iran imagine if he gave iran bases in iraq allowed troops and tanks to move from iran to syria the israelis the saudis they will include like that one bit. candidates number three trumps nightmare. meeting this guy who's in iraq he himself fought on the side of iran during the iran iraq war enough said i believe the american administration could be the biggest loser from iraqi election we have three camps fighting to win this election that many can only have one wrong ally which is i doubt i'll always understand what that is and he's trying to keep that alliance with the united states but whether he is going to win this election i have my own doubts i think that i'll. miss that i'll bet it knows. and gating a lot of support but i don't hear so i believe they have. until now so you see the problem here one guy doesn't want to get involved in anything one guy is all buddy buddy with iran and the lust is so poor raney and he'll fight you quite literally and even with the weight steeped in its favor america says iran is cheating w

the street and it pointed his supporters just their evening where even chanting and saying iran is now out of iraq iran is not out of iraq so and he presents himself the person who is very close to the poor people and very attached to the normal average people in iraq but i have to ask you about u.s. backed body because people expected him to do better what i think a body is connected the last four years corruption again is the corruption is connected to corruption that yes we see one of the picture here about who was was connected to the corruption. people had big hope that he might fight corruption but today if you look to transparency international drinking concerning corruption iraq is still the last places so it's like they are fed up from the whole corruption thing and even more so it was supposed to get he was supposed to get more votes in mosul it didn't happen also because he was the one saying we defeated i guess in mosul but the results we have now speak another language so it seems unofficial to know that assad there is the winner right we're still waiting for an official vote count wh

former prime minister he makes no attempt to hide his affinity for iran imagine if he gave iran bases in iraq allowed troops and tanks to move from iran to syria the israelis the saudis they will include like that one bit. candidates number three trumps nightmare. meeting this guy who's an iraqi himself fought on the side of iran during the iran iraq war enough said i believe the american administration could be the biggest loser from iraqi election we have three camps fighting to when this election die many can only have one strong ally which is. always. and he is trying to keep that alliance with the united states but whether he is going to win this election i have my own doubts i think that it's that i will have the group. there are very close to the indian and gating a lot of support by the here so i believe they have. until now so you see the problem here one guy doesn't want to get involved in anything one guy is all buddy buddy with iran and the last is so poor raney and he'll fight you quite literally and even with the weight steeped in its favor america says iran is cheating. worriso

percent of the iraq ablation voted with me fifty five to fifty six didn't vote because the prostrated with the status quo and the corruption etc this is the second thing is that both actually iran and the us lost in the iraq election because they're bedded on different candidates more than became second third and third know much more promising is that for the first time since thirteen years you have across sectarian a religious secular. civil current coalition between most of those in the common as another civil currents movement in iraq which is something very promising for a new start of a new and a new reform iraq and this is. a positive and an end as a big surprise even for those who are predicting that news the prison garb badly would win the election already supported by iraq with the election so the arc of people prove all these. new moscow b.s. and predictions of rome so when we go back to his question you're right the sun and his movement and since two thousand and three there pours the rocky a capacious although of course they were against them the scenes but that doesn't mean that they bet on bet they bet it on the and they're going to compassion to bring democracy a

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has things in iran big time in the region so today iran iran's all eyes are winning elections and lebanon are winning elections probably the iraq next week iran's allies are taking over taking on neighborhoods and capitals and in damascus and in yemen so iran is on the rise iran is expanding and the nuclear deal did not stop any of those now and fascinating as ever thank you very much still to come here on al-jazeera. devastated by years of war and poverty iraq is prepared to go to the polls for the first time since the fall of iso. a tribunals has opened into war crimes during columbia's five decade war with fox rebels but the country remains deeply divided. the man who's led weeks of protests in armenia has been chosen as the new prime minister nicole was elected by parliament after angry demonstrations forced. to resign natasha going to reports from yerevan with supporters are celebrating. i republic square vibrated with excitement i want to be a shock was about same give me and i'm overwhelmed with emotion and i can only say that we're very happy that we're free from these presidents shackles we have hope that the new prime

of the stablished and american thinking about this is this notion of a shiite land bridge between iran iraq syria and then of course hezbollah and lebanon so they want to protect it prevent this linking up between iraq and syria across the border crossing in their border crossing points out there in the desert it really is a desert area there now are there are things out there there's this energy plant and so forth but i think this kind of horizontal link from iran is the real target here and that's why we see not only the continued u.s. presence in eastern syria basically northeastern syria but even talk of bringing in some kind of a sunni legion bringing in saudi and other troops there to augment or perhaps at some point replace the americans that would serve as a block to this east west corridor and for the viewers at home who might not know just give them some context traditionally. syria and iran are allies which would lend credence to that idea so nothing happens in a vacuum jim what do you think the international reaction will be from the international community. i don't know it when

and that was something new because usually connected to iran in iraq so that's what's he did and it's a different point of view and he has he met a year ago he made the crown prince of saudi arabia so it's kind of thing you because again this is connected to sectarianism which is when you say you're shia so you're connected to two to iran when you say you're sunni you might connect to saudi arabia and he is now in kind of middle position people on the ground are fed up also from interference of foreign policy from the u.s. from iran from saudi arabia and he might be the person who might change it but only because it's campaigning because all over in iraq you have big posters and everyone is saying on the right one was doing it and he presents himself the person who is very close to the poor people and very attached to the normal average people in iraq just have to carry him reporting a new suicide attack by a family has indonesia second largest city reeling once again while the bombers were motorbikes to a police station a sort of bio them blew themsel

activities under two thousand twenty five ballistic activities in the region and regional activities of iran in iraq or yemen and syria when i was in washington i said to president trump don't tear everything up but if something's worry you let strengthen this framework and he decided to create tension what i think this was meant. to go. beyond to something broader this is what we have to do among european countries with the e.u. with the united kingdom's germany and france we have to reaffirm that we are attached to the agreement from two thousand and fifteen because the iranian regime cannot take that its activities up again. what you have heard that they are stalling that's what they said in their declaration of yesterday there is no escalation and the european decision allows us to stop activities for now and to limit escalation and this is why we have to work together with our partners in order to limit and that's going to of tension in the region and this is what we have been trying for months now and this is also why we have to broaden already the topics in order to bring all the parties back

new legion and to unpack this a little bit has a standing army with a conventional force with the iran-iraq war and it has a clear mobile army with the revolutionary guard and this is proactive and the diversity and that expeditionary terrorist asked abroad the revolutionary guard is instrumental to establish a third foreign legion ti but normally it is what i stack but now it is a very personal for those that are on the ground and it must be addressed as we think strategically about the space. >> the that center of gravity is from the revolutionary guard corps which is more than enough force but the economic powerhouse and buy calculations they control one third more viewing and that means that through measures of economic pressure then open that strategy and our water carrier was designated but to devote those time and resources to bring them into the syria fear. and we will need new pressure on man but it is that true is him strategy that is interesting to watch over the last several months the iranians think how to and iran has changed but to get to those things like that coi coin -- bi

iran, iraq, si syria and lib bol one. liz: how close is iran to getting a nuclear weapon?> difficult to say if time frame. but what is happening now, it is important to understand that it is crux of the matter, iran is using its fact that sanctions were lifted irresponsibly lifted to send missiles to saudi arabia, an american ally. to colonized syria to threat israel from through the in leb lebanon and spread terrorism and inst bilinstability. it is know expiration date of nuclear agreement signed by previous administration. it will work into a nuclear device. >> how close is israel to war with iran? and syria? >> we're -- >> is it going to happen? >> i don't think so, we're determined to prevent iran from creating a strong hold in syria. it threatens israel, we're doing what we should do. but we're not hearings drums of war. we don't want drums of war. >> okay. so. -- happening today, iran blocked telegram, a popular social messaging app that half of country of iran used to communicate. social unrest there. >> israel's netanyahu telling fox how it within down let's watch.