the reach of iranian networks is certainly one of them. and that's one of the ways that our analysts and our planners can help centcom in that regard. a couple of particular things that jumped out at me as important takeaways. you hit off the bat on probably the most important one, and that is that if you understand the mindset of this particular adversary, their activities are going to be predictable. and most of the time you're going to be able to look at this, there is enough body of evidence since the revolution of '79, to prove, i think, as you point out in the monograph, that their actions are going to be predictable. and the fact that they don't match up to a rationale that we easily understand in the west doesn't mean they're not predictable if you spend enough time understanding the mindset, what the important aspects are to the regime, what they will do anything to fight for and what are what you call conflicts of opportunity versus ones that are conflicts of survival in their minds. and that allows us as planners to develop a li

the iranian theocracy is the most destabilizing force in the mideast. they have aggressively pursued military action through proxies and directly been involved in military action in syria. iran's efforts to dominate iraqw lebanon, syria, and now human, have to be pushed back. here's what secretary mattis said about this proposal. i asked in the question, how would i ran view passage of this proposal limiting precision guided weapons to saudi by the congress? i believe iran would be appreciative of not selling these weapons to saudi arabia. that's pretty direct. iran would be really happy. and i would say this, on september the 21st, 2016, 71 united states senators supported 71 votes to 27.s in other words, 71 united states senators rejected rand paul proposal to stop the sale of things. i would argue that a tank is not nearly as a precision weapon aso the weapons were talking about here to be given to the air force. if you're worried about collateral damage in yemen, i understand your concern. precision weapons would help'v that cause, not hurt it. you'

the iranians are present by sending militia it's mainly of shit from afghanistan and pakistan even some india even shia militias they command now of these players saudi is absent the iranians even drunk when they're drunk they remember that they are no military power they run the iranians have only ever fought one enemy which is iraq and they lost so these revolutionary guards are good for parades they're not fighters they cannot survive any kind of combat with american forces of any sort even very small combat so what we have here is russian airpower. and russian support for and sent now the anomaly americans don't share the russian test for us out the russians obviously find the russian government finds assad delicious the americans don't think he smells very good are they going to go all the conflict or not do you think there's a chance that this well ours could actually clash first of all. they are present in support of the kurds what the americans are doing in syria is actually not to. directly attack assad's regime. but they are there to support the kurds and their support in the

out of either the russians or iranians was to raise the other party. but tactically in the short term they have made a lot of common cause, because they've both seen opportunities to chip away at american leadership and the middle east. but it was possible to work with the russians on the iranian nubbing clear agreement. >> rose: they were supportive. >> they were. >> rose: an very helpful, the president has said that. >> they were pretty solid partners and we quite consciencely from the beginning of those negotiations tried to make it very difficult for the iranians to drive a wedge between us and the russians because we knew if we held that part of the cooperative effort together, we could hold the whole coalition. >> rose: where do they stand in terms of iranian behavior, having to do with, you know, supporting hezbollah and. >> they are partners with the assad regime and syria which creates all sorts of challenges for us and our friends in the middle east. i think the russians have been pretty good in insisessing that the iranians hold to their obl

the iranians are adversaries right now. mr. burns: -- charlie: of us? mr.ns: of us and others whether you are talking about lebanon, syria, yemen, iraq. but that is not the same thing as saying that you recognize in the short term they need to push back against the iranians. over the longer term, what you are hoping to create is an opportunity for a different kind of iran with a different outlook that will be a big, ambitious regional power in the middle east, but understand that you have to play by certain rules of the road. charlie: do have sympathy for the secretary of state, when he wants to mediate differences and saudian and qatar arabia? they basically said to the people, you have to shut down al jazeera. we are not going to send planes into your capital, we are not going to do all these things. we are not going to trade with you, we will destroy this relationship. mr. burns: that is the capitulation, not a lifting of reconciliation. charlie: why would they go that far? is it a bargaining tool? or are they just trying to crush qatar? mr. burns: i thi

between the russians and iranians -- the russians and us. if we hold that together, we can hold the whole coalition together. charlie: where do they stand on terms of iranian behavior, having to do with supporting hezbollah? mr. burns: they are partners with the assad regime, which creates challenges for us and our friends in the middle east. i think the russians have been good at enlisting the iranians hold to their obligations in the nuclear agreement. in general, they have looked for ways to make common cause with iran and the middle east. charlie: what can we do with iran other than more sanctions? inevitably, managing iran and developing a strategy for iran is going to be complicated, no matter who got elected last november, because the challenge would be, how do you implement the nuclear agreement, which i continue to believe is the best alternative from preventing them from getting a nuclear weapon, but how do you do that within a wider strategy which recognizes that iran threatened our interests? that is a tough balance to strike, bu

the iranian bureaucracy is a stabilizing force in the middle east and they have aggressively pursued military action through proxies and directly been involved in military actions int syria, iran's efforts to dominate iraq, lebanon and syria and now yemen have to be pushed sa back. here's what secretary mattis said about this proposal: i asked him a question, how does the passage of this proposal limited to sitting precision b guided by the congress? i believe iran would be appreciative of not selling these weapons to saudi arabia. that's pretty direct. iran would be really happy and i would say this, on september the 21st 201,671 united states senators supported a tank sale to saudi arabia by 71 votes to play seven. i would argue that a tank is noi nearly a precision weapon as the weapons were talking about to be given to the air force and ifns you're worried about collateral damage in yemen? i understand your concern. precision weapons would helpot o that cause, not hurt it. you have to understand for dealing with in yemen. were dealing with iran.r saudi arabia has a border with a

the iranians run the war in syria.heir generals are on the ground and they direct the air support from the russians and from the syrian air force in support of ground operations. they lead it. they plan it, they do everything. what the iranians are up to is they recognize that the americans are going to take the american-led forces are going to clean out the euphrates river valley all the way to iraq. the iranians don't want that. the u.s. will have influence and control over that area. the iranians want to have an arc of influence from iran through iraq, through eastern syria, they don't want the u.s. to be controlling it, to western syria to lebanon. strategically that is why the iranians now are using the ground force and also air power, their drones and syrian air force airplane the other day, to push against the american-led coalition forces. that is what is happening. >> bill: so they are getting ready for the fall of isis and isis is going to move wherever the cockroaches move. but the iranians want to have that

canada and europe and when no one thing we have to go to we receive hundreds of thousands of iranians as a blogger image or every year and we have we have nothing it as they say that is the people it any other evolution it started with actually over overtaking the american embassy for four hundred forty four days in a move that is. a protected area that should be respected according to international law and they landed in the stop by that but they overtook they are actually the attacked. british embassy. i'm sorry i said please carry on it's absolutely obvious i would yes here i was standing and there are there are more than one even even western embassies we have to wait over taking an attack attack by our own also there are many cases not not not even in this area as far as argentina went in one thousand nine hundred there was a big explosion in one of the main places and boy assad is that claimed tens of thousands of lives so i don't know what to you know go back and forth accusing each other just as we all take all day but that we help we have facts that are being documented not o

the more leverage the iranians and russians will gain in yemen. the more terrorist groups like al qaeda in the ie arabian -- arabian peninsula will thrive. perhaps the saudi government isn't concerned about my vote. perhaps they think this issue will just blow over, that attention will wain, that senators will lose interest. i rerk nice that i'm just one senator with just one vote, but i will caution the saudi government defense such a view. i'm not going to losing interest in this issue any time soon. to the saudis i say this. when i make a request and your government is unresponsive, at least as far as i'm concerned, there will be consequences for that decision. my vote demonstrates that fact. to my colleagues, i respectfully say that america's support should never be unconditional. it's in our interests. it's consistent with our humanitarian values. universal humanitarian values that we profess to demand that the saudis take some of these steps to alleviate humanitarian suffering in yemen. so for this reason i'm going to vote in support of sena

what is the impact on iranians knowing these symbols hit today?eporter: for a long time i ran is selling to the people and selling the idea they are very stable and we have this stability because of our presence inside syria. but we saw that this idea of the political game, the island of stability is not that true because the town of the former leader of -- the tomb of the former leader is a political sheet that iran is presenting. the parliament is a symbol of democracy that makes iran the islamic republic. those symbols are very important to have been attached. -- attacked. brent: he mentioned the sunni-shia divide to consider. what does this do to the shia minority? reporter: the thing is like i think if the reaction comes from these minority, everyone would condemn these attacks. but the problem is after this attack happened, even during the attack because it was a long time, five hours, which was a problem, during the attack, people were talking like, so these attacks would bring the security that the top topic of the country. it means it wou

russian and iranians look at the united states as threat. they're against regime change because they think that if it is successful in damascus or by data it will make moscow they'll share that view and so on. the part is going to be difficult. other difficult thing is that again, this agency point of the regime, i don't actually believe that either iran or russia is capable of getting rid of al-assad he's played, a very, very monstrous syringe. individual but played a clear clever hand to get future. but slightly russians would like to get rid doesn't make it out. i think only way to get rid of assad is in a body bag. >> they don't care. they will take any. >> but iranians don't care as a individual, but he plays a role for them i think. you know, the issue with them -- is it is very interesting i expect a few people by iranian government and russian government on this. they said the same thing at different time which is is they started off in syria, thinking that assad was this nobody, a guy with thought to get rid of him. they borrowed de

government to put justice for american victims of iranian terrorism ahead of the payments to the iranian regime. no administration should transfer funds related to iran-united states claims tribunal without first requiring settlements of all damages already awarded and judgments made in the u.s. courts against iran for their terrorism crimes against our own citizens. pay our own citizens from that fund before any money should be transferred to the iranian regime makes sense, common sense, and it's surround by the sense of justice and right. while my amendment was not one of those considered by the senate yet, we'll be introducing this concept as in free-standing legislation in the near future. i know that sanctions alone will not change iran's regime's behavior. incidentally, we need our alloys and friends to join us -- our allies and friends to join us in this same-sejoin us in sanctions efforts. this remains an important bill to impose costs on the regime in iran and hopefully encourage more of the discontent we saw during the recent ex-wills. perhaps there will rise an equiv tonight t

the iranians of course and the russians they want negotiations they want to end the bloodshed. there can be no no negotiations with isis and there can be no negotiations with al-qaeda these are groups that have to be completely and utterly destroyed in syria but with regard to the rest of the organizations that are fighting the syrian government the iranians the russians want to solution but of course again even though the saudis deny it they are the ones alongside other countries that have been supporting al-qaeda in isis we recall that unfortunately in the past the turkish government they were doing extensive oil deals we know now that the i pad is in the saudis are at loggerheads with the soviets are pointing out what i tell you they have done in the . pointing out with the saudis have done so it's becoming clear what is happening in yemen we know that they have a head of al qaeda said that his forces are fighting alongside the saudi backed forces but i think that ultimately the sody regime and other regimes in this region who have been supporting wahhabi extremists they are

the real issue in syria is the iranians. the iranians ordered the ground attack against u.s.ition two days ago and ordered the syrian air force to conduct the strike against the coalition that led to the downing of that syrian airplane. iranians do not want us to occupy eastern syria and the united states have that kind of influence. so they are pushing against united states-led forces and that's what this drone was all about. this is the second time we have shot down an iranian drone in two months. the iranians are dead serious about conducting ground operations against u.s.-led coalition forces. that's the issue here. gerri: i want to take you half a word away to a flash point for us. north korea, what should wee be doing about north korea. >> we have got to stop our youngsters from going in there. we don't have a total travel ban on north korea. we have a thing called restriction. but we have got to a travel ban in place so they don't keep taking hostages on us as bargaining chips. second thing we should try to get our other three youngers out of there. north koreans used

it is to did that create tensions and to the russians off -- from the iranian -- iranians and syrians also involves reinvigorating our terry deterrence, completely neglected by president obama. president obama had the pathological allergy to military detergents, -- determines, and never engaged in it. ready with the streak against syria rep and, that's the reinvigoration. there's an outreach to russia and coming up or sure, but it's happening in -- happening in a completely different context. >> thank you. ambassador three >> i usually have a different point of view. [laughter] privilege, i, don't know what, opportunity, to be with secretary kerry and meet with vladimir putin for about four hours. charming, as ily think he was to megyn kelly for the last three days. but, he is kgb through and through. he's very smart. .e's very strategic he knows exactly what he is doing. he plays his hand very well. expect thatd inflatable putin will do anything other than what will keep him as king for the foreseeable future. he has a prince -- presidential election in 2018. maybe he will get 96 and

four gunmenpehe iranian par la money. that's according to iran parliament state tv. the four terrorists or foreother terrorists including a suicide bomber attacked the mausoleum of it was unclear who was behind linked. >>> well, the day before former expected to testify before the senate intelligence committee we're learning more about the relationship. he told jeff sessions he did not want to be leftpresent trump. that came after mr. trump according to comey asked him to drop the investigation, according to michael flynn. and the "washington post" is reporting that the president asked the director of national intense jens if he could intervene with comey on the russian investigation. weijia jiang with more on this. good weijia. >> reporter: good morning, anre. he asked him to publicly state there was no collusion between russia and the state campaign. today they will be grilling him before they do the same to comey. president trump wished james comey well tuesday ahead of his highly anticipated testimony before the senate intelligence committee. ousted fbi director

it is to did that create tensions and to the russians off -- from the iranian -- iranians and syrians also involves reinvigorating our terry deterrence, completely neglected by president obama. president obama had the pathological allergy to military detergents, -- determines, and never engaged in it. ready with the streak against syria rep and, that's the reinvigoration. there's an outreach to russia and coming up or sure, but it's happening in -- happening in a completely different context. >> thank you. ambassador three >> i usually have a different point of view. [laughter] privilege, i, don't know what, opportunity, to be with secretary kerry and meet with vladimir putin for about four hours. charming, as ily think he was to megyn kelly for the last three days. but, he is kgb through and through. he's very smart. .e's very strategic he knows exactly what he is doing. he plays his hand very well. expect thatd inflatable putin will do anything other than what will keep him as king for the foreseeable future. he has a prince -- presidential election in 2018. maybe he will get 96 and

just a year or two years ago the saudis killed six hundred iranian pilgrims and never even expressed remorse or regret but most importantly is the saudi regime being inherently weak is completely reliant on the united states and this without this so really the biggest blame goes to the united states what happened in libya couldn't have happened without the the united states what happened in syria the extremism that the saudis said that is in the others explored it couldn't have happened without the united states but now we see in yemen this so did the head of al-qaeda in yemen says our forces are fighting alongside the got the so the saudi backed forces in yemen so we know that al qaeda is itself saying that we're working alongside them in yemen in syria we all know the story we know the defense intelligence agency document of two thousand and twelve with the united states admitted that the saudis and others were supporting the extremists and then the united states and for them we know in iraq the saudi supported isis but now we see that the so does not only did a lot yemen and force

the white house is pretty much blaming the iranians for the attack by sponsoring terrorism themselves gave a mutual statement, condolences to the irani people, underscoring that terrorism isa people, underscoring that terrorism is a threat to everyone in the world. there is a lot of ambiguity about what direction the us is heading. that, ithink, increases tensions, because there is so much uncertainty about what the us will do in the future. thank you very much. thank you. eight people are now known to have died in the london bridge attack on saturday night. police searching for a frenchman who went missing during the attack have found a body in the river thames. xavier thomas who was 45 had been in london with his girlfriend for the weekend. and within the last hour: three men have been arrested in connection with the london bridge terror attack. ed thomas has this report. in the most darkest moments... returning to london bridge. the police officers who were the first to face the london attackers, and comfort the injured, here to lay flowers and remember those who died, in a city gr

the independent reminds us that the last attack on iranian soil was seven years ago. this does come as a total surprise. it kind of makes sense because the islamic state group represents sunnis who regard shiite iran as a nation of heretics. the british paper says iran probably has other enemies notably saudi arabia and its allies which has just cut off ties with qatar because it was conciliatory with iran. not a surprise that the revolutionary guard which initially was restrained now blamed the saudi's for this deadly attack yesterday. >> former fbi chief james comey's testimony reveals concerns about his former boss. he will read his statement to congress about his time as fbi chief before he was unceremoniously fired by donald trump. document.ad his we learned that comey confirmed that trump did put pressure on him to shut down an investigation into the former national security and his links to russia. what's really interesting is there are two issues at stake when you look at this document. questions arising about trump's presidential conduct. if he did demand loy

for the iranians, isis is a by-product of saudi... ideology and saudi financing. saudis, isis is a by-product of iranian support for-- shi'a militias in iraq which are killing sunnis en mass. the reality is that isis poses a grave threat to iran, but an even griever threat to saudi arabia. so in theory these two countries have a mutual adversary in isis. but what iran has been doing which i think is quite dangerous is conflating saudi arabia and isis, and they put their finger on something which has a powerful resonance amongst iranians and whether you're a shiite cleric, or a secular iranian opponent of the regime living in los angeles, there is this kind of persian nationalism against saudi arabia. they're trying to harness that. but what's dangerous about that is not that they blamed saudi arabia for this attack and retallation, this really has a danger of escalatin escalating e regional war between iran and saudi arabia, which has really eclipsed the conflict and the destabilization of the middle east. >> very strong tensions between iran and saudi arabia. we

>> yes, but the iranians run the war in syria, their generals are on the ground. not assad.y direct the use of air power, but since iranian tested their ballistic missile in first month of trump administration, they have been quiet. that is because he sanctioned them, he said, any further activity like this, we'll come after you. this administration means it, this administration is coming to confront in a way that previous was not, our adversaries know it. lou: general jack keane great to see you. >> good talking to you. lou: be sure to vote in our poll, do you believe majority leader mcconnell and speaker ryan are capable of delivering a health care victory for president trump? cast your vote on twitter. like he on facebook, follow me. >> another massive cyberattack, crippling corporate computer systems worldwide, the ransom ware holds data hostage until they pay up. expert is a that at th tettia exploits same window bug used last month, many companies have not updated their software, it would have been that simple. all they had to do was apply the patch. they did not. on w

did the iranian authorities react was there any suggestion that you could see further action perhaps in syria while since those attacks tehran's foreign minister he had come out and said that the fact that i saw has claimed responsibility for the twenty attacks show that saudi arabia is involved in these twin attacks and bear in mind that iran has long queues saudi arabia of supporting terrorists and also bear in mind that tehran and riyadh there their relationship had been very tense increasingly tense and rainy and revolutionary guards have emailing the twin attacks to u.s. president donald trump's visit to riyadh out earlier this year so from the looks of it iran has launched over tell you a tory missile strike on the terrorist positions tears that they say are responsible for those terror attacks but again no official confirmation on a broader. as has been involved in fighting extremists in syria for a while yes. ok all right thanks i mean i was really so you there with the latest for us. well peter ford former ambassador to syria and bahrain joins us now to give us his thoughts

to attacks on the iranian least 12t and at killed in toronto and many more injured. -- in tehranan. claimedstate group has responsibility for the attacks. france, president emmanuel macron has created a counterterrorism task force to improve the sharing of intelligence, as the government prepares to transfer certain powers granted under the state of emergency into permanent law. dawn announces his pick for fbi chief a month after dismissing james comey as director. the u.s. president published an early morning tweet announcing his intention to nominate christopher wray. he headed up the criminal division of the justice department under george w. bush. hello and welcome. straight to the top story this evening, and unprecedented dual terror attack in iran has been claimed by the islamic state group. the first attack took place wednesday morning at the iranian parliament, and around the same time, another attacker targeted a muslim south of the city dedicated to ayatollah khomeini. the desk tolls currently stands at 12. 40 others have been injured and five people have been arrested in

and they have supported iranian sanctions doing similar things, with iranian sanctions, i believe. the bottom line is, if donald trump wants to do something about russia and russia meddling, instead of saying obama didn't do enough, support our sanctions bill. i'll tell you this. i hope paul ryan will step up to the plate. with russia meddling in our elections, that's serious, serious stuff. if he passes it and trump vetoes it, it will be overridden by democrats and republicans. >> democrats lost another special election this week. that's four in a row. led to a lot of second-guessing by democrats. including congressman tim ryan. congressman tim ryan said, our brand is worse than trump. >> okay, here's the number one lesson from georgia six. democrats need a strong, bold, sharp-edged, and common sense economic agenda. policy, platform, message. that appeal to the middle class. that resonate with the middle class. and show, and unite democrats. that's what i've been working on for months. i've been talking to democrats house and senate all across the country. i have been talking to

all iranians." surprise that we would hear from iran hitting back at the united states. this is the sense here that this is too constrictive, too restrictive, and isn't fair to people. that's a feeling here. >> all right. nic robertson from abu dhabi, thank you. >>> there's potentially explosive new reporting this morning that a longtime republican operative tried to get his hands on emails he believed were stolen from hillary clinton's private e-mail server, likely by russian hackers. part two of this "wall street journal" scoop is that the operatives suggested to others that he was working with michael flynn who later became the national security adviser. the general reports the veteran gop opposition researcher, peter w. smith, told associates and people he tried to help recruit him that he was "talking to lieutenant general mike flynn about the project." emails written by smith and one of his associates back up the story. flynn's actual role if he had any is still unclear. >> flynn was then a se

there is no iranian deal. it has been truncated to ensure there has not -- there will not be an iranian nuclear weapon for 20 years and yet the defense systems and at the arabians are still going in and are going to expand. the russians are saying, see? it has been about us all along. invectives some senators who wanted to be about russia. they want to put nuclear defense and russia. you do that and you will pour gasoline on the fire and see the proliferation of nuclear weapons and your once again. >> a couple factual errors. it could not nearly handle -- ] -- that was in three to be which was unfortunately canceled. important.is iranian ballistic missiles in fact regardless putting aside the wisdom of the rent deal because we're not what we're here to debate that. even those sanctions still forbid the testing of missiles, the jcpoa does not prohibit the testing of iranian ballistic missiles. europe is still at risk currently of short and medium-range ballistic missiles. are committing to our allies, that is w

president, that the agreement the iranian nuclear -- the iranian nuclear agreement was just an agreement between the leaders of the two governments. it wasn't a treaty. the president never trade to defend it as a treaty. the congress didn't approve it as a treaty, and it is no more of a binding treaty than anything else that a president on their own would decide they'd enter into and hope the next president would agree with their decision. secretary of state john kerry said in the final days of his service as secretary of state, quote, we still have serious differences with the government of iran and will continue to push back on its support of terrorism, it's disregard for human rights and destabilizing regional activities. this bill delivers the pushback that secretary of state john kerry called for. despite the hopes that the previous administration had for moderation -- remember that debate about how once we entered into this agreement it would strengthen the forces of moderation in iran -- iran has increased its destructive activities since the 2015 joint comprehensive plan of actio

rex tillerson testified to say the iranians are meeting the conditions of that deal.say, one time you called it shameful. an egregious mistake. you continue to call for new sanctions to be placed ona iran. why? because iran has not changed. iran, still by our own state department determination, the number—i state—sponsor of terrorism. iran has tens of thousands of its own forces in syria, which has become a bloodbath. a genocide of the syrian people. iran represses its own people in a way, the regime does come in a way that is brutal and unacceptable. this is all way more complicated than you have just outlined. in syria iran is backing bashar al—assad, to even some in washington represents some sort of stability in the face of the threat of islamic state and other jihadists organisations. equally in iraq, iran's role in iraq has been, over the years, essentially buttressed by the war america started. right now we are doing better in our relations with the government in iraq. quite successful in mosul, in rolling back isis. i don't know where to begin to respond first

let's get the thoughts now he's the director of international affairs the iranian fars news agency good evening to see what are your thoughts on this airstrike of course we've heard the official explanation that this is in retaliation for those i saw attacks in just a few days ago but many other people have suggested to us that perhaps they're trying to way make a wider statement here. you know that this missile attack is happening at a time that there was a terrorist attack in iran's capital city by. a terrorist in iran and also there was a coincidence that this is a missile attack in the tally ation those terrorist attacks in tehran is happening some days after us legislation to impose new sanctions which includes part of the sanctions the wrong policy missile program and also so i.r.g.c. and also as well but i think this attack was in reality happening for the retaliation of the british tax retard in iran i think the iranians want to send some messages to firstly to terrorists. if there's going to be any assertions even not be tolerated and they will pay the costs of any attacks insi

that would've meant, for instance, we might've had the ability to these networks to say to the iranian people hey, the united states people are with you. we support you, without it coming from the government but from the governance point of view, the u.s. governments point of view, we would be better positioned and, frankly, better able to communicate the sort of full range of who we are as a people if you encourage those networks even the region of formal diplomatic relations at the same time you had this chessboard strategy. >> host: at the end of the day you would argue if you are effectively practicing the statecraft in this increasingly interconnected world, more interaction and the web doesn't either weaken or undercut our lesson your options on the chessboard, it increases. >> guest: yes. i would say you need to practice statecraft and web craft. and statecraft does have to come from the government. web craft can come from the government. they can be encoded by the government but also, it can come from again a mayor. it can come from a foundation for its a great to come back to

as i look at this, i look first at the iranian part of this underlying bill. as you know, we have had many disagreements in the last few years on the iranian nuclear agreement. but it's now critical. this is the time for those who both oppose the agreement and those who supported it to come together to ensure that all of the parties to the agreement are upholding their obligations. when the united states and our allies agreed to the iranian nuclear agreement, we made it clear that we will continue to hold iran accountable for its nefarious activity outside of the four corners of the agreement. we must hold iran accountable for missile tests, for financing terrorism, and human rights violations. that is our job. and that is why i was an early cosponsor of the legislation before the senate today. the count eing iran's destabling activities act imposes mandatory sanctions on those involved with iran's ballistic missile program as well as those who fund terrorist organization and commit human rights violations. iran's ballistic missile program is a threat to regio

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