mannish across the globe euro sat all of these have stopped broadcasting iranian television so the iranians are no longer even allowed to speak out press t.v. and other t.v. channels are no longer allowed to be viewed in the united states so american hostility really has gone to extraordinary extremes ok much if you want to reply to that in tampa well first of all i mean there are a lot of points that i want to reply where i think we don't have the time but first of all. when we talk about the sanctions it's. just saying united states not just you know that it's an international consensus that even russia china for round of sanctions there have been international consensus and second of all when they will examine i'll get to speak clearly not saying and saying ok not all countries have the same sanctions this is pretty clear ok go ahead i mean i mean there are the u.s. has unilateral sanctions but i think. robust sanctions they have been international consensus but i think the point is that i was talking about the weaker legs i mean we saw that regional countries except syria. except syria

iranians are no longer even allowed to speak out press t.v. and other t.v. channels are no longer allowed to be viewed in the united states so american hostility really has gone to extraordinary extremes ok much if you want to reply to that in tampa well first of all i mean there are a lot of points that i want to reply where i think we don't have the time but first of all. when we talk about the sanctions we were just just saying the united states not just you know that it's an international consensus that even russia china for round of sanctions there have been international consensus and second of all when they will examine i get let's just be clearly not saying and saying ok not all countries have the same sanctions this is be clear ok go ahead i mean i mean there is the u.s. has unilateral sanctions by around of robust sanctions they have been international consensus but i think the point is that i was talking about the weaker legs and we saw that regional countries except syria. except syria regional countries they expressed their concer

anish across the globe euro sat sat all of these have stop broadcasting iranian television so the iranians are no longer even allowed to speak out press t.v. and other t.v. channels are no longer allowed to be viewed in the united states so american hostility really has gone to extraordinary extremes ok much if you want to reply to that in tampa well first of all i mean there are a lot of points that want to apply where i think we don't have the time but first of all. when we talk about the sanctions it's just just saying united states not just you know that it's an international consensus that even russia china for round of sanctions there have been international consensus and second of all when they will examine i'll get let's just be clear here and i'll tell you how it's saying and saying ok not all countries have the same sanctions this is be clear ok go ahead i mean i mean there are the u.s. has unilateral sanctions but i think. robust sanctions they have been international consensus but i think the point is that i was talking about the weaker legs i mean we saw that regional countrie

under such circumstances the iranians feel the . they really cannot give anything at the negotiating table because the europeans and americans will interpret this as a sign of weakness so the iranians are going to wait and see if the europeans and americans make any reasonable change in their policy with a margin and in tampa the americans go there with good intentions do they really want to agreement or is it just talk the talk. well i'm just going to compare a little bit this administration with the previous and i think this administration we can say i think it's been more willing to negotiate with a ring and when obama came to power i think they extended their hand they sent letters to the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini and i think they didn't get responses i think they try to use diplomacy track to i think they may be more more willing than previous administration to use i think to engage iran interim solution but i think the problem here i think it's it's more deep i think we can't just cherry pick this event and focus on th

iranians are no longer even allowed to speak out press t.v. and other t.v. channels are no longer allowed to be viewed in the united states so american hostility really has gone to extraordinary extremes ok much if you want to reply to that in tampa well first of all i mean there are a lot of points at that i want to reply but i think we don't have the time but first of all. when we talk about the sanctions we were just just saying the united states not just you know that it's an international consensus that even russia china is for a round of sanctions there have been international consensus and second of all when they will get a little speak clearly not i'll tell you how it's saying and saying ok not all countries have the same sanctions this is be clear ok go ahead i mean i mean there are the u.s. has unilateral sanctions but i think. robust sanctions they've been international consensus but i think the point is that what i was talking about the weaker legs i mean we saw that regional countries except syria. except syria regional countries

pollack, the talk about the iranian's need to trust the u.s., that they will not help overthrow the iranian government. use a holding meetings with o the with appearsf mek -- with members of the mek. would that convince the iranian regime that this will also be to their benefit or not? >> again, our own divided government, how does it affect the equation? let's go right here. >> thank you. in my dealing with the iranians, they care more about the matter principle. if you want to have a deal, you have to acknowledge their rights. technology and their rights means that there remember of the committee and they're able to do whatever is needed. i would claim that if you want to have a deal, you have to a knowledge at the beginning that they have rights. then, my understanding is that lots of things can happen. the last thing i think is interesting in iran is that we were ready to suspend it in richmond for one hour. there's the possibility of mediation, but you have to give them their rights. i would like to ask the question. first of all, what can you do here in the u.s. to promote the idea th

for the iranians as well. given the turmoil in the region, given what is going on, the choice between nuclearizing and becoming north korea or making these kind of concessions that they don't want to make also even more awful than they would be even under other circumstances. >> let me just make two comments, ken. i think that, obviously, we haven't talked extensively about it, and i agree with you on the military option. on the other hand, it's not off the table. so it might be north korea on what is the negative of steroids. i don't know. i mean, the iranians do not have massive artillery zeroed in on some nearby friendly city. we need to take that into account. on the other hand, i totally agree with you that iranians have a long tradition and a great interest, and they want to be a power in the region. and one of the questions we have to resolve, while we can't dictate it, is what our role in the region will be in the future, what their role, what our arab friends' role will be and where it will go. and th

no iranian ever did me no harm. i never even met an iranian.t one in a paris museum: nice dude. >> reporter: the response from iranians poured in. >> people from iran took a picture of themselves and give their own writing: "israel people we don't hate you." i don't even have the words to express how moving it was. i think it's an act of desperation from people to people because the government or prime ministers here in the middle east, the communication is always so aggressive, and so hateful. >> reporter: their effort blossomed online, in demonstrations and on tel aviv buses emblazoned with their message. but their person-to-person campaign doesn't address what some here see as israel's dilemma: if iran's leaders won't agree to halt enrichment and the united states doesn't act, should israel strike on its own? the reason it might: as iran expands its program and drives it underground, israel's timeline to attack is much shorter than washington's. >> we do have a very good air force but your air force has more capabilities that we are not poss

feel that as time goes on it is the iranians who will be in a stronger position although the united states has been very brutal and the e.u. towards iran by trying to prevent trade by trying to hurt ordinary people and even now iranian radio and television networks english persian arabic and spanish have all been banned on the european satellite. asia so the freedom of information is being blocked by the united states and the e.u. so the people across the globe can't hear the iranian voice which isn't the ultimate irony and very very briefly is it just business or are we seeing some kind of geo political shift with iran making alliances with egypt and sudan very briefly . yes i think that iran and the alliance is something that the iranians would like to see ultimately but this is it will take quite a long time but i think that the relations between iran and egypt are improving pretty rapidly and i think in the future we will see these relations improving even further ok thank you very much indeed iranian political analyst side mohammad marandi thank you. the british government is c

and we hope the iranians make a choice. a rational choice for them and their people to come into the 21st century peacefully. >> rose: you remember famously that benjamin netanyahu recently had an election himself. things did not go as well as he hoped, came from the united nations and talked about a red line. do we have a red line? >> well, the red line that the united states has, the united states will not-- aims to prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon reasons acquiring a nuclear weapon or nuclear capacity. >> well, that's a debate that you can have kind of in a metaphysical way. >> if they have capacity they can do it. >> yeah, it's not going to make -- >> it would take a year. >> but it would fake a year or-to-to have the missiles to deliver them too. >> the time line, i don't want to get into. but it, this is very serious security issue. i will tell you that this is the issue that i have probably spent the most time on with national security advisor. >> iran. >> nuclear weapons. >> yes. and that you know that's

it just happened to be a ship that was loaded off the iranian shore., the crew was yemen, but everything else, the make of the equipment, the ammo, and we know the weapons were apparently destined to rebels, fellow shiites, a different kind, but that, the government is sunni, so there's a sunni-shia conflict, a civil war, a terrible time with that, there's separationists in the south, and the tribal shiites in the south, it could go shout quickly. that's what they are trying to do. melissa: is that what it's about? supporting people who have the same philosophical, religious beliefs, but it's not about that. it's about distracting and make the region unstable? >> exactly. it's about power. the iranians want to be the dominant regional power in the middle east. they think they've always been it historically. they want to see a shia correction throughout the middle east. yemen is a perfect target, and that's why it's very interesting that these arms were intercepted with the help of the u.s. navy. melissa: it's upsets because it seems like unfortunately

it is the first time an iranian head of government has visited egypt since the iranian revolution in959. he got a grand reception but back home he has been dealt a big blow. one of his closest allies has been arrested. thought to be the latest in the approach between the president and his approach -- his opponent. more from cairo in a moment. >> the judiciary has not yet said what they have arrested him. one official report said that he was arrested for illegal possession of government property as the head of the social security network. ahmadinejad promoted him cheat -- two years after he was suspended as the prosecutor general. he is charged with the torture and death of protesters following the 2009 election. that prison has since been closed. back in 2003 he was in the custody of a canadian irani and. i will point out that he has never been charged for that. >> mahmoud ahmadinejad's visit to egypt is significant given that it is the first visit by an iranian head of state to egypt in more than 30 years. when president morsi visited in the summer, there was an agreement to reopen

the iranian group has died down more than 50%, all income has -- the iranian rial has died down morehan 50%. we're starting to see the early signs of a medicine crisis in iran. the report was issued by the woodrow wilson center in washington, d.c. that showed although government corruption and mismanagement is also important, this crisis has been caused by the sanctions. as a result, the young people dying in hospitals simply because of lack of medicine. i would say pressure alone will not work. there has to be negotiations put on the table viewed as strategically valuable by the other side. only then will we be able to really say that diplomacy has been tested. >> president of his nominee for cia director john brennan accused iran of pursuing nuclear weapons in made the comment during his confirmation hearing. tehran and in taez o brennanhn enbridge >> john read your response? >> this has been the position for quite some time. even though the intelligence of all of the p-5 indicates there is not been a decision to weaponized, the belief is the iranians are moving toward a nuclear we

we are not helping the iraqis who are rising against iranian influence.ran is sending weapons and also its own guarded in syria to help crush its own opposition. while we are claiming our sanctions are working, iran is all over the map, and more recently, lou, two things. iranian navy has facilities on the coast in the ports on the red sea, and port sudan. their navy crushed the suez canal with the help of the muslim brotherhood in egypt. it's problematic now. >> what you are saying is that the united states national security architecture is incapable of formulating a response to the adventurism, if you will, of iran and the extent of itself interest in the region. if that's the case, it's beyond the political judgments made by this president. it goes much deeper, much broader than that the way i hear you describing it. >> oh, absolutely, lou. look, the decision already made in the past four years to engage the iranian leadership, and that decision has a price. they think that if you want to engage them, you will not confront them anymore. you will not co

pollack, the talk about the iranian's need to trust the u.s., that they will not help overthrow the iranian government. use a holding meetings with o the with appearsf mek -- with members of the mek. would that convince the iranian regime that this will also be to their benefit or not? >> again, our own divided government, how does it affect the equation? let's go right here. >> thank you. in my dealing with the iranians, they care more about the matter principle. if you want to have a deal, you have to acknowledge their rights. technology and their rights means that there remember of the committee and they're able to do whatever is needed. i would claim that if you want to have a deal, you have to a knowledge at the beginning that they have rights. then, my understanding is that lots of things can happen. the last thing i think is interesting in iran is that we were ready to suspend it in richmond for one hour. there's the possibility of mediation, but you have to give them their rights. i would like to ask the question. first of all, what can you do here in the u.s. to promote the idea th

the crisis began on november 4, 1979 when iranian students overran the u.s. embassy.y would take 52 americans hostage and hold them for 444 days. the students acted under the direction of radical islamic clergymen seeking power after the shaw of iran stepped aside. during the 1880 presidential campaign the story gripped the nation. here's our coverage from the first days of the iranian hostage crisis. >> reporter: courtyard of the embassy in tyran. as they do five times each day the students pray facing mecca. while they chant their prayers, the 60 americans and 40 asians being held hostage remain out of view. their condition is unknown, the students say all the americans are spied and are being questioned. the students also said they are being well treated. the committee of students handling the take over issued a communication saying that carter has offered to expel the shaw from the united states. but the u.s. government has remained firm the shaw be handed over. revolutionary guards stand guard. bouquets do make it through the gates they are sent by iranian women

fuel purchases says that basically the president can agree to these iranian fuel purchases if it's in u.s. national interests so is this undermining the sanctions altogether saying that if it's in u.s. interests we don't have to abide by those sanctions at all or are we kind of in this quagmire worth either get around assistance with this fuel are don't leave afghanistan you know i think that it is a it is a tough needle to thread there and what we need to remember is that the sanctions are supposed to be. protecting u.s. national security interests the problem is that we have lost sight of what those sanctions are supposed to achieve the same things have become sort of an interest unto themselves we've lost sight of the fact that sanctions are supposed to be a sort of a tactical form of getting leverage over iran that is then used at the negotiating table to try to carve out a deal to try to you know have something to offer and give and take and they've become a strategic objective unto themselves we had. the hearing yesterday with chuck hagel being considered for secretary of defens

oil and they've also attempted to shut down all trade through the iranian banking system thus making it difficult even to import medicine and as a result people have died in iran so the e.u. and the united states do have blood on their hands already but the economy here though it did take a blow. it is continuing to function pretty much normally although prices have gone up and the reaal has devalued but business is does continue. think though they are giving or offering these loans basically to encourage trade between iran and egypt and sudan because iran believes that the overthrow of some of the dictatorships in the region have opened new opportunities to bring about greater regional cooperation and iran wants the help of these countries away from the american orbit as it were but indeed you mentioned which is currently relying on the u.s. aid is tehran keen to challenge washington's influence in the long. well i think. in iran the feeling is that the united states and the e.u. are already rapidly on the decline in number of dictatorships that they have been backing have been over

what were the circumstances of the death of this iranian? gretzky's a high commander in the iranian revolutionary guard forces. he was killed in syria yesterday around noon. the news came out late last night. the iranian embassy announced in a statement that he was killed on his way to beirut. we don't know exactly what he was doing in syria. he's very famous in lebanon. he spent most of the last six years here. he was in charge of iranian efforts to reconstruct what ever israel had demolished and destroyed in the 2006 war. it's a huge project. about $1 billion have been spent from 2006 to 2010. this man was known as the engineer. he was in charge of the council that was calling -- channeling all the money, overseeing all the construction projects in southern lebanon. many lebanese will see this as one more sign on how iran has a lot of influence in lebanon on, not only in terms of reconstruction, but this is a high commander in the iranian revolutionary guard, they are learning. >> the french president is in india to sign a civil and milita

for the iranian government. one in three americans said iran is enemy number one. iran is still viewed by at lot of americans as a dangerous place. >> sure. >> reporter: does that message match with what you see here and all the love you guys get? >> no. i tell you, athletes, right, we work, we train today and it enables us to engage with each other. >> reporter: this was team usa's tenth visit to iran. each visit stirs speculation that sport might help build bridges between the two countries. >> when we got here, they had their arms wide open to our wrestling program and to americans because they realize that it's a better world with us together. >> if wrestlers can get together, anyone can get together. >> reporter: so far the exception to that wrestler's rule has been washington and tehran. during our visit to tehran, the iranian government's deep-seeded suspicion for international media was evident. a few hours into our scoot, security officials confiscated our videotape and erased interviews with wrestlers

and this is an opportunity to test the iranians. i think this initial round is not going to prove much but certainly over the next six months, i think there will be an ample opportunity to see if there is an intent on the iranian part to reach some sort of compromise. >> rose: leon panetta and others have said the following. we have no information that there's been a decision on the part of the iranian government and the most influential people there to builds a nuclear weapon and a missile that will deliver it. what do they mean when they say that? >> well, i can't really speak for them but i think it's pretty clear that iran has made the decision to have a nuclear weapons program. and there's really nothing el that explains kind of procurement. >> rose: you know panetta have said that. >> i think probably what people mean by that is they're moving down the road. the question is will they get to the end of the road or is there a diplomatic solution before then or a military confrontation. because remember president obama has said t