the iranians double agents had americans using u.s.communication would have given the signal to the rescue commandos. all the agents slipped out of the country posing as european businessmen. >>> 10 years after the americans had been taken hostage. watson took a look back at the hostages who were still in iran. >> reporter: 10 years ago today, one of the most hope less situations faced by the american government took place. 15 americans were held hostage for the next 444 days. what happened in iran that day was no less than the birth of a system that influenced world politics for the next decade. that system was the iranian form of government by terror. >> the first time an embassy had been taken access in all of the personnel and all of them used by pawns in the political process of the country. it intensified the role of terrorism in the world's stage. >> today in tehran there was a celebration commemorating the day of the hostage taking. there were the cries of death to america but more the most part the iranians ignored the event.

-- like the iranians.emember, they have a presidential election coming up, and if there's a deal coming up, and it's associated with someone who might be running for president, you better believe their opponents are going to attack it and undermine. but i think the president has enough discretion, and this is an executive issue. it's also a united nations issue and a p5 +3. so i think if united states comes and says, look, we have the leaders of france and britain and russia and we're trying to prevent nuclear weapons, you know, you should probably not meddle in this, that that's, that's a winnable argument, i think, particularly for an obama that's coming out of this with, you know, out of a strong election. no one liked gadhafi, no one liked libya, but we got a deal on libya. no one liked the soviets, but we got a deal with the soviets. so i think it's doable. >> and i think to partially answer that same question, one of the issues for many in congress is going to be whether this negotiation quote-unquot

american council and we first talked about the impact of sanctions upon those iranian people . the sanctions are having a massive impact especially over the past two months we've seen that there's a humanitarian impact on particularly medicine inside of iran there are shortages of cancer medicine of basically ordinary iranians are complaining that they are not able to get just basic and exotic medicines that they need to survive the reason for this is that. u.s. the u.s. technically allows for medicine to be exploited to iran there's a general license for that but we have cut off all banking transactions with iran so if there's a pharmaceutical company who wants to send medicine they can actually find a way to facilitate that transaction and so while we may say we don't want to there to be a humanitarian impact there is unless we actually take action to fix that and frankly there are people in the united states who are pushing hard for these sanctions that really do feel that punishing ordinary people is what these sanctions should be doing because the goal is not to change the

iranians don't get the u.s.esence in the region as legitimate and ultimately an expiration date for the u.s. to stay. as a result, they don't want to invest. they want to put their eggs there. the u.s. for some reason half an expiration date and doesn't want to have the same type of investment. what is achievable however is to take several significant steps back from the brink of the abyss of a military confrontation. that is highly achievable. frankly some thing that is the desire of both sides to achieve. i think it is an exaggerated fear amongst other nations in the region and perhaps outside the region that have this fear thinking this to be some sort of a return to the u.s. relationship with the shock in which iran would gain significance at the expense of other strategic allies of the united states. i don't see any chance of that happening in the short or even medium-term and i don't see any chance of us are significant changes in iran. and i don't see a desire on the u.s. or read inside for that type of r

has signaled that they may be willing to do that the iranians have signaled they may be willing to do that but there are plenty of spoilers inside of some of the countries you know here in the u.s. congress every time the u.s. and iran have talked a letter comes out of congress that says don't don't ease the sanctions do not give up the same until we get the total capitulation by the iranians we need to go big and have an ultimatum that the iranians need to give up their entire program and then we can consider easing the sanctions that's problematic that's not a way that you can negotiate the other thing about just how most things work in terms of government in terms of diplomacy usually a lot of baby steps a little bit of time not these huge capitulation by both. yes absolutely and especially i mean you talk about baby steps we only have you know we don't have a sustained diplomatic process to actually take those baby steps so the idea that we need to have a complete capitulation by iran in a couple of sit downs isn't realistic i would also just point out that what we're talking abou

here you are with an iranian scientist. >> iranian scientists are not going to destroy me. iranians and palestinians and pakistan me scientist -- pakistanian scientists are my friends. we do not care about the allegiance or color of your skin. the we only care about science. >> this project is highly sensitive, and many scientists are worried how it will be perceived back home. the iranian agreed to talk to me, provided he is alone. i asked if he was surprised at the progress so far. >> we have come a long way and we have good scientists and good people. it has inspired hope. we have put a lot of effort into making this machine. the scientists, they like this. >> the plan is to get the system working in three years' time. a lot could still prevent that. technical trouble or political trouble, but it is bringing hope to the region. >> it is one more small line of communication to the people living in this region. this is why it has to work. >> beside the salty waters of the dead sea, one of the great fault lines of the middle east, the countries poured in the project meet fo

airspace and but i think the iranian response is even more significant the iranians have shown or stating basically that they are not going to take any form of aggression from the americans lightly and that they will respond robustly the iranians aren't intimidated they take an independent foreign policy they support the palestinians as opposed to the regime which the iranian see as an apartheid regime is really completely unacceptable to the united states and i think that the americans fear that other countries in the region will sort of try to become more independent of the united states and europe like you ron. well coming up next selling vacations by hushing up hostilities in libya is marketed as a tourist hot spot but travel agents are accused of copying western media by stand silent on the violence. and americans stranded in qatar barred from coming home to the u.s. to visit his ailing mother and in a few minutes why his muslim a could be the only reason more on this and other stories right after the break. looking at some dogs you simply do not believe they come speak and good news

the iranian shooting with former u. ambassador john bolton and pulitzer prize-winnin journalist judith miller. also, the racial divide dominating the presidential race in 2008. some say it was no different this yea. what implications does that have for both parties? i will talk with former special counsel to president clinton ronnie davis and wrigley standard writer steven haze. end new signs that big changes are in the offing for presidt obama's cabinet tonight. fox is correspondent channing greenwell breakdown who is leadg do is staying in just moments. first, two days after his reelection of president obama is now faced th an international incidenthat some may perceive as an act of war, an incident that occurred five days before the election. for the latest details on our attempts to shoot down a u.s. truck or international waters to return to fox his national security correspondent jennifer griffin for report. >> aa 4:50 a.m., days before the u.s. president's election, to iranian fu25 fighter jets like these interce

aircraft was never in iranian air space. it was always flying in international air space. the internationally recognized territorial limit is 12 nautical miles off the coast. we never entered the 12 nautical mile limit. >> asked whether the incident was an act of war, the pentagon spokesman said he would not legally label it.

iranians recovered it largely intact. pentagon did not disclose the details of the more recent drone incident citing the "classified" mission. meantime, more rising tension is looming farther east with china as president obama prepared for a second term. a new report suggests china is two years away from deploying nuclear ballistic missiles on the submarines. missiles with a 4600-mile range. china recently unveiled a second sophisticated stealth fighter jet that industry experts say may have been developed with stolen u.s. technology. chinese j-31 stealth fighter has an air intake and wing dimension that is suspiciously similar to the american s-35 an35.u.s. navy officials confira russian nuclear-powered attack submarine detected 300 miles off the east coast of the united states in late october. russia navy commander announced earlier on june 1, the russian nuclear power subs would return to patrolling the world's oceans as they did in the soviet times. >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. we're lear

bahrain would have been eight and up by the iranians. -- eaten up by the iranians. there is an inherent tension in addition to the great tension from the southern side of the golf and the persian is in the iranians to the north. so there was the presence of the independent agent, other british could keep these tensions under control. to be sure many local actors do not welcome the british. but did provide for a modicum of stability. when it left, in my opinion, the underlying tensions are what cause many of the problems that drew the united states, against its will back to assume the same security commitment. >> you began your book and in the foreword you think people. who were they? >>guest: i got the opportunity to get a phd of john hopkins and had the wonderful blessing to study with two world-renowned scholars a specialist in the middle east and dr. elliott:it specialist and strategic studies for military history. in my own academic work i tend straddle both of those worlds military history aspect of the superpower involvement those who touche but the free main

business transaction in iran basically means that the united states is trying to correct the iranian economy trying to prevent iran from importing and exporting anything and that includes food and medicine and. inside iran despite the fact that the americans and the europeans have not succeeded in anything to the degree that they want to but i think it has caused a great deal of anger and hostility in five year run and iranians to see a more barbaric side to western politics and it's really quite sad that often sanctions are meant to have a political effect are really affecting the people on the ground who really can't defend themselves much now when we talk about israel there's been such a strong push over the years from israel in terms of military action trying to convince the united states and washington to go along we haven't seen that take place and yet what do you make of the symbolic influence the symbolic meaning of obama again slapping these sanctions on iran is the first thing he does do you see this as sort of balance perhaps to israeli pressure. well the new sanctions won

if the iranians get a nuclear weapon it will not be long. >> greta: how do iranians view americans andnited states government? >> i think they see essentially a clear path to achieving their long sought objective of getting deliverable nuclear weapons. obviously the sanctions are causing them some economic pain they would like to find a way if get rid of them. they have no fear that the united states ultimately will use military force against them. the only cloud on their horizon is what israel might do. absence an israeli attack, the most likely outcome is iran gets nuclear weapons and very, very soon. >> greta: that description suggests that america is looked on as feckless and weak and no moment in terms of whether or not they do after a nuclear weapon and see us as giving an economic hardship in the short run. >> well, i think they've concluded that despite president obama's rhetoric, he's not serious when he says all options are on the table. i think they've also discerned that the real administration policy, despite its denials is they think they can contain and deter a nuclear i

the iranian delegation to the u.n. the report as unfair and biased, and said the republic has worked wholeheartedly to realize the rights of its citizens. in an email to the newshour, the iranian u.n. mission claimed the report leveled "general allegations in the absence of authentic and reliable evidence aimed to serve propaganda." the communication also stated that political parties "enjoy the right of freedom of speech and free activities", and the iranians accused the u.s. of "a long list of gross and systematic violations of human rights, both at home and abroad." regime critics say they risk years in prison for their actions. abdolfattah soltani, an attorney and co-founder of the defenders of human rights center, tried to represent leaders of the minority b'hai faith. his daughter, maedeh soltani, was interviewed in germany. >> ( translated ): my father was sentenced to 13 years in prison, and in addition, ten years of disbarment. in the trial, the judge told my father: "as soon as you are in jail and you don't w

if iranians get a nuclear weapon it won't be long that terrorists will get it. >> greta: how do the iraniansited states government and americans? >> i think they see a clear path to achieving their long sought objective of getting deliverable nuclear weapons. sanctions is causing some economic pain. they would like to find a way to get rid of them. they have no fear that they ultimately use force against them. only cloud is what israel might do. absent an israeli attack is most likely iran gets nuclear weapons and very soon. >> greta: that description sort of suggests that americans looks feckless and week and may be no moment if they do go after a nuclear weapon and they see it's an economic hardship in the short run? >> i think they have concluded that despite president obama's rhetoric he is not really serious when he says all options are on the table. i think they have discerned the real administration policy despite its denials they think they can contain and deter a nuclear iran. i think that is delusional policy. in any event it doesn't stop with iran. saudi arabia, egypt and turkey g

but from an iranian domestic consumption point of view it is a huge win for the iranian government tohis showing in the face of strong sanctions they are still able to put fighters in the air and they are not going to be pushed around by the west. >>shepard: i guess as you try to unite your people who do not have enough gas or food it is a valuable weapon. >>guest: exactly. that is a reason it is such a scary situation. so tense. from an iranian political point of view they need to rally their own people to keep them strong in the face of sanctions. the western world we are trying to put a lot of pressure to bear to make sure they decide not to acquire nuclear weapons. this is where you see the tension come to a ahead. i didn't think it would pop up this quickly after the election. the fact they did this a few days best election is significant because i would think they would not take that risk. >>shepard: thank you, mine, from washington, dc. army private first-class bradley manning who called himself online bradass 87 has offered to plead guilty to crimes in connection with one of t

airspace and but i think the iranian response is even more significant the iranians have shown or stating basically that they are not going to take any form of aggression from the americans lightly and that they will respond robustly the iranians aren't intimidated they take an independent foreign policy they support the palestinians as opposed to the regime which the iranian see as an apartheid regime is really completely unacceptable to the united states and i think that the americans fear that other countries in the region will sort of try to become more independent of the united states and europe like you ron. very soon tonight selling all of those by hushing up or still it seems libya is big you know it was a tourist hot spot but travel agents are accused of coffee and western media by staying silent on the bombings we were told that americans stranded in council would go to stories bother from coming home to the u.s. to visit the sick in a few minutes so why is mostly they could be the movies. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale a show of i as a lawyer should test

if iranians get a nuclear weapon it won't be long that terrorists will get it. >> greta: how do the iraniansw the united states government and americans? >> i think they see a clear path to achieving their long sought objective of getting deliverable nuclear weapons. sanctions is causing some economic pain. they would like to find a way to get rid of them. they have no fear that they ultimately use force against them. only cloud is what israel might do. absent an israeli attack is most likely iran gets nuclear weapons and very soon. >> greta: that description sort of suggests that americans looks feckless and week and may be no moment if they do go after a nuclear weapon and they see it's an economic hardship in the short run? >> i think they have concluded that despite president obama's rhetoric he is not really serious when he says all options are on the table. i think they have discerned the real administration policy despite its denials they think they can contain and deter a nuclear iran. i think that is delusional policy. in any event it doesn't stop with iran. saudi arabia, egypt and

drone has been fired on by iranian fighter jets. release information on it last week in the days before the election because it was on quota classified mission. the u.s. government has protested to iran through the state department and the swiss delegation that represents the u.s. inside tehran. megyn: the class fried mission is now over? it's only a week later. >> reporter: the reason this came out is because of news reports. cnn broke the story moments ago and the pentagon was forced to react to it in the briefing a few minutes ago. the reason they did not talk about this or reveal information on it last week is the drone reportedly was flying on a classified mission. the pentagon claim the drone did not cross into iranian air space. about it was on a classified mission, megyn. megyn: if you wouldn't mind sticking around for us. in about five minutes we got ambassador bolton to come back. he was here with us last hour. he's on his way back to the studios. we may have some more questions we could ask you. i would appreciate it. sta

being the world police ministration is impose financial sanctions against the iranian officials will be u.s. blames for jamming satellite broadcast and blocking internet access anywhere in that comes on top of a whole bunch of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u. was proved to be crippling for the iranian economy and the population there is suffering a great deal because of that while campaigning president obama indicated that he didn't want to go to war with iran but that he would continue the sanctions policy and that's what he's doing we've heard reports that the obama administration engage in direct talks with iran at some point but there has been no confirmation that. threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that if you was might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran's so desperate that they would agree to anything but sanctioning iran was probably not president obama's very first move after winning this election government officials here say that sai

the iranian regime, and iranian government have been sitting down with so many representatives of theons of russia, so many representatives of international community yet it did not happen. it first of all has to happen inside the iranian leadership. they have to say on these conditions we have to come and negotiate. they have not done so. melissa: in an effort to save their hard currency at the same time, maybe this is evidence the sanctions are working, they banned import of 75 different goods and called them luxury goods. they include toilet paper. what does it tell you?. >> there is always the black market on the side. they will go after these measures. try to implement them. on the other hand iranian will use black market and the regime knows that. the sanctions we're putting are good but unfortunately they're only targeting the civil society. that is why you see demonstrations from time to time. iran you have the two economies, the country's economy and the regime's economy. we need to thten sanction on the regime's economy. melissa: what is the we keep hearing now with the left

airspace and but i think the iranian response is even more significant the iranians have shown or are stating basically that they are not going to take any form of aggression from the americans lightly and that they will respond robustly the iranians aren't intimidated they take an independent foreign policy they support the palestinians are supposed to raid the regime which the iranian see as an apartheid regime is really completely unacceptable to the united states and i think that the americans fear that other countries in the region will sort of try to become more independent of the united states and europe like you ron. three cincinatti was me kevin i mean selling holidays by hushing up hostilities libby is being marketed now to result of all the travel agents are accused of copying western media by staying silent on the draw and so there you go report coming up. on american stranded in cuts barred from coming home to the united states to visit the sick mother in a few minutes so why use a little name could be the only reason for the. recently protests and demonstrations of any k

presidential election, two iranian su 25 frog foot iranian fighter jets intercepted and twice fired upon an unmanned unarmed u.s. mq 1 pled predator drone. the shots missed on both attempts. the drone way from the iranian coast landing safely at undisclosed location. the jets pursued the drone after firing the shots according to pentagon spokesman george little but u.s. air force pilots say they find the scenarioomewhat confusing since those jets fly at 550 miles per hour and a predator drone flies a mere 135 miles per hour. the iranian jets would have had to slow down to chase that u.s. predator, shepard. >> shepard: this is november the 8th. that was the 1st. why are we just hearing about. this george little says that this drone was on a, quote: classified mission. he said that it was a routine surveillance mission to monitor maritime shipping. and he added that the u.s. has reached out to the iranians through the state department and the swiss protective powers in tehran to protest the incident. >> our aircraft was never in iranian airspace. it was always flying in international airsp

now iranian news agency quotes a top iranian military official is saying his country took decisive action the drone. another top iranian general tells the news agency "if any foreign planes try to enter our country's space, our armed forces will confront it." the pentagon insists the drone was in international airspace east of kuwait. now, the pentagon spokesperson asked -- was asked if this attack amounts to an act of war. here's what he said. >> i'm not going to get into legal labels. the -- we have a wide range to protect our assets and the forces in the region, and we'll do so when necessary. we have communicated to the iranians that we will continue to conduct surveillance flights over international waters over the arabian gulf insistent with longstanding practice. >> barbara starr broke the story, and she joins us live from the pentagon. barbara, we know last december a drone went into iranian airspace, crashed. the pentagon says this predator drone never entered iranian territory. you have the details. what do we know? >> well, suzanne, what the pentagon is saying was the drone was

at the thought it was working out a deal the iranians stop negotiating the world later learned that over the next three days israel began shipping f. four fighter jet tires to iran the first of many shipments of u.s. made weapons to go that route through israel into iran over the next few years and on january twentieth at the exact moment reagan raised his hand to be sworn into office that was the moment to the minute that the iranians release the hostages it was their way of saying deal done. when we found out about it and that the money the iranians were paying reagan for the military hardware was being used to kill contra rebels in nicaragua it was referred to as the iran contra scandal but congress concerned that the details both of the weapons and of israel's involvement with the bush campaign before the election concern that those things might come out officially limited their investigation to events after the election on november twenty second one nine hundred ninety one eleven years after that election and after reagan was long gone from the white house gary sick was finally

the top advisor for the president is iranian born. she is according to an israeli newspaper meeting and trying to arrange meetings with iran's supreme leader and trying to get a negotiation and deal with the nuclear policy. curious on many levels. why valerie and not the secretary of state. >> brian: she has a background for chicago politicings and could get 24 hour round the clock secret service security. >> steve: you know our ambassador in benghazi didn't. even thote blogosphere is saying she clearly is negotiating with iran. they deny it. >> brian: we'll call the supreme leader. >> steve: he doesn't take our calls. >> brian: when president obama sits down with can john boehner to help save our country from recession. how does that go. >> raising tax rates is unacceptable and frankly couldn't pass the house. >> so will they be able to compromise and how will they do this? your second amendment rightts at risk. what the president just signed that has many people worried. >> steve: we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] when was the

so once the iranians get it, the saudis will get it. people say, well, they don't have the infrastructure, they have something else. they have money, and they will be able to get it from, let's say -- >> pakistan. [laughter] >> often times we do these things as an echo forrun. [laughter] -- forum. so they will have it. now, once they have it, and this was the second part of the argument. so containment won't prevent that. now your talking about a middle east that's going to be nuclear armed, and it won't only be be the saudis. and the idea that the concepts of the cold war of which i was a practitioner of are going to work here, you know, i used to work on the soviet union, i actually started off as an arms control negotiator, you know, there you had mutual-assured destruction. you had a guaranteed balance of terror because each side knew they couldn't disarm the other. we both had an assured second strike capability. in the middle east, you won't have that. no one will believe they can afford to strike second. now, it means that everyb

diplomats were held hostage by iranian university students into iran for four hundred forty two days but the truth is the most important date to remember is nineteen fifty three this is the year the u.s. overthrew iran's first democratically elected leader and installed the shah a pro u.s. dictator why would the u.s. do this i thought we were all about spreading democracy well once you throw a little oil in the mix democracy gets kicked to the curb prior to b.p. or british petroleum controlled all of iran's oil production so when iranian prime minister mohammad was saudi nationalize the oil industry. britain took iran to the world court how dare a country try to manage it manage its own resources well when britain lost the claim they turned to president eisenhower and under the pretense of iran being a communist threat urged the us to intervene the newly formed cia staged operation ajax a coup to overthrow the democratically elected government of iran and after that iranian oil was once again following in the control of britain the us the netherlands and france under harsh autocratic

first time the iranians have fired on u.s. unmanned aerial vehicle, shots missed on both attempts and the drone headed away from the iranian coast landing safely soon after an undisclosed location with the iranian jets pursued the ground for a short period after firing shots. >> u.s. military aircraft conducting routine surveillance over the arabian gulf intercepted by iranian s u 25 fraud for aircraft and fired upon with guns. the incident occurred over international waters, 16 nautical miles across the coast line. it was not hit and returned to its base safely. >> george biddle says the predator, the iranian coast east of kuwait over the persian gulf, 12 nautical miles represents the international aerospace border. little emphasized the drone never entered iranian airspace when asked why this incident was not revealed before in the days before the u.s. election will said the predator was on a, quote, classified mission adding the u.s. reached out to the iranians viet the state department and the swiss protective power. when