about that and the reticular speaking the obama camp that reached this deal said look we know that iraq iran is and vicious that iran is a destabilizing force in the middle east that iran has unfriendly intentions you know for its neighbors and so on so forth but we think all of that would be more containable if iran is denuclearized that with the nuclear deal it will be safer and easier then to contain iran's ambitions in the region and is this that destabilizing influence as well as even its ballistic missile program and so forth we will deal with that when we can ensure that iran does not possess a nuclear weapon now the detractors say that's not true because what the nuclear deal did is allow iran to expand in influence in the region using one hundred fifty billion dollars whether it ordered by the do they not by the united states or not but anyway it has one hundred fifty extra billions of dollars to spend and that america's blunders in iraq america's weakness america's fall out with israel and saudi arabia all of that has strengthened iran and has things in iran big time in the region

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

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

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

from iran from saudi arabia and he might be the person who might change it but only might because it's campaigning because all over in iraq you have big posters and everyone is saying on the right one was doing it again we're seeing men on 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 w

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

and then it 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 had he met a year ago he made the crown prince of saudi arabia so it's kind of 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 he's given free from the second example because 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 might because it's campaigning because all over in iraq you have big posters and everyone is saying on the right one was doing it again we're seeing you know on the street and the point of 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

here in iraq, iran is the most powerful foreign force and if there is to be pushed back, maybe even ofthe united states it might come from iran's allies in this country. more widely, back in 2015 those six powers who signed the deal with iran i think let out a big sigh of relief because, at the time, the region seems to be sliding inexorably into war because of iran's nuclear plans and israelresponse to them. the deal, not perfect, i don't think anybody would say it was, has brought a certain period of calm over the last three years and that is of course now going to end because there is a lot of uncertainty. in the middle east there are many violent, dangerous and difficult issues. but i think everything surrounding iran's nuclear plans, or lack of them, they claim, to have a nuclear weapon, thatis claim, to have a nuclear weapon, that is the most dangerous issue in this very volatile region. as for american foreign policy in this part of the world, i think the announcement that president trump made today will dictate the shape of it for the rest of his time in power and perhaps will

between two warring middle east nations but those major nations were involved in supporting iraq against iran yes but i do know there's a for me and for the bodies of for the body of work for a reason to fight the focus was simply on the iranian people who went against this whole system and to give their lives i mean when you have thirteen fourteen year olds going and killing themselves for for the sake of us keeping our land it doesn't matter what's what's what's at the time was this political situation our country this was this was out of the context everyone wanted to defend their country it didn't matter that we had a revolution in that amount or that we things were difficult at the time they talked to us we tried to defend ourselves and signed freely we're able to and today i can be proud of holding an iran imposture than my own and not in iraq you want but it was iraq is just had elections relations did a closer the level of it of their own interests of course we're talking of usually about a few decades ago that was a different story that time today i'm very. happy to see the evolution

between two warring middle east nations but those major nations were involved in supporting iraq against iran yes but i do know there's a for me and for the bodies of for the body of work a reason to fight the focus was simply on the iranian people who went against this whole system and to give their lives i mean when you have thirteen fourteen year olds going and killing themselves for for the sake of us keeping our land it doesn't matter what's what's what's at the time was this political situation our country this was this was out of the context everyone wanted to defend their country it didn't matter that we had a revolution in that amount or that we things were difficult at the time they talk to us we tried to defend ourselves and thankfully we're able to and today i can be proud of holding an iranian post where than my own and not in iraq you want but it was iraq is just as elections relations just a closer than ever bit of iran interests of course we're talking of usually about a few decades ago that was a different story that time today i'm very. happy to see the evolution that is hap

always been a close text since the revolution of when the united states and britain supported iraq against iran. because we former estate developer and us army colonel lawrence wilkerson says war is inevitable between the neighborhoods there are have been saying that war has been in the visible for a very long time but then again. there's a lot of things that's are being sides and i don't think that. we should take these quotes extremely seriously i believe in a dialogue i believe in other ways to be able to sort out issues between nations and i don't think going to war would be one of them and to leave it the reason to fight serious reason to find series is a very special and personal serious to me and i remember when i completed the body of work since two thousand and fourteen. a lot of people pods confused ideas about what i'm trying to do and what i was trying to simply show to the world and to our people as lots if it wasn't due to these people to this kids who went to war and and and everyone else today we would not be able to hold our identity properly iranians because it would have been

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iraq's sovereignty. all of this during the jcpoa. in yemen, iran's supporting the houthi people and starving others and to threaten international shipping in the red sea. and in afghanistan, iran's support to the taliban in the form of weapons and funding leads to further violence and hinde hinders peace and stability for the people. and covert operations in the heart of europe. we should remember, too, that during the jcpoa iran continues to hold americans hostage, like shea wong and bob levenson missing over 11 years. i will note for the american people, you should know that we're working diligently to bring each american missing wrongfully detained in iran home. the list continues. iran continues to be during the j jcpoa the large he is sponsor of terrorists and al qaeda as it's done since 9/11, and refuses to bring to justice senior al qaeda members resideening tehran. today, we ask the iranian people, is this what you want your country to be known for? for being a co-conspirator with hezbollah, hamas, the taliban, and al qaeda? the united states

iraq's sovereignty. all of this during the jcpoa. in yemen iran's support for the houthi militia fuels a conflict that continues to starve the yemeni people and hold them under the threat of terror. the rogc has give houthi missiles to attack civilian targets in saudi arabia and the emirates and to threaten international shipping in the red sea. and afghanistan, iran's support to the taliban in the form of weapons and funding leads to further violence and hinders peace and stability for the afghan people. today the iranian quds force conducts covert assassination operations in the heart of europe. we should remember, too, that during the jcpoa, iran continues to hold americans hostage. the two namazis, mr. wong, and bob levinson, who has been missing for over 11 years. i will note for the american people, you should know we are working diligently to bring each american missing, wrongfully detained in iran, home. the list continues. iran continues to be, during the jcpoa, the world's largest sponsor of terror. it continues to serve as sanctuary for a

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

iran does that in the long run. what will happen is it will distance away the europeans away probably washington and that's important for iraq also at the same time let's look at the economic ramifications the united states was trying to get iran in a way by getting out of the deal but it actually really hit the europeans because if the europeans even get out of what will happen they will get replaced by the russians and the chinese as we're seeing it today on the ground into iraq. you know mom and expand upon that because you know this is a diplomatic opening for russia and china something that the neo-cons and supreme surround trump is probably probably abhors but you know i get the sense you've lived in the united states before you know that do they actually think these things out the consequences of their actions here because i have the impression that the neo cons that wrote that speech for him they probably were laughing up the sleeve that he actually said it and at the same time the same people that important during the campaign are still plotting to get rid of him i mean it's really truly amazing he does their biddin

between two warring middle east nations but those major nations were involved in supporting iraq against iran yes but i do know there's a for me and for the bodies of for the body of work a reason to fight the focus was simply on the iranian people who went against this whole system and to give their lives i mean when you have thirteen fourteen year olds going and killing themselves for for the sake of us keeping our land it doesn't matter what's what's what's at the time was this political situation our country this was this was out of the context everyone wanted to defend their country it didn't matter that we had a revolution in that amount or that we things were difficult at the time they talked to us we tried to defend ourselves and signed freely we're able to and today i can be proud of holding an iranian passport in my hand and not in iraq you want but it was iraq is just had elections relations just a closer than ever but of their own interests of course we're talking of usually about a few decades ago that was a different story that time today i'm very. happy to see the evolution tha

cleaning bill of health to iran by praising it in various strong terms and saying that you know iraq iran is in full compliance and cooperating with one of the most robust very few cajuns systems in the what is actually the most robust and so given the fact that there are i have been put in charge or monitoring iran is complex i am spared the u.n. resolution two two three one. the other side being the u.s. of course. really lacks legitimacy for what happened and i really sense a broadening sense of crisis in washington because they did not anticipate this very a strong european backlash backlash by the u.n. secretary general and not the head of the i.a.e.a. and they miscalculated iran's reaction as well and iran are showing a great deal of prudence and you know taking the legal or steps by campaigning against the u.s. in the. internal mechanism of the j. c.p.o. and and so on so while i don't know. you know what led to this resignation the fact that you have an acting deputy director who was on the ground in iran and now can go to moscow along with mr armani was there meeting with presiden

completely dry no has the right phase the way on saturdays forecast from the borderlands is when iraq iran or again northern syria turkey it is still raining here and the breeze seems quite light to be fluctuating but also fairly strong so the arabian peninsula looks like we're going to have rather lightish breeze day on friday possibly thirty seven in die hard but that's nifty ducked the low forty's a breeze out of the interior for many places during saturday event even culminate in a shower or two or least of fairly windy weather now south of all the action southern africa has been reasonably dry recently but the cloud is building again more rain gathering for the western cape. al jazeera wild need some extraordinary women. who are making things happen that way. following their daily struggle to survive. for their families to thrive. egypt swimmin street sellers on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter dhabi your top stories today the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his military will attack any nation targeting his country including preemptive strik

completely dry nor has the range phase the way on saturdays forecast from the borderlands is when iraq iran or again northern syria turkey it is still raining here and the breeze seems quite light to be fluctuating but also fairly strong so the arabian peninsula looks like we're going to have rather lightish breeze day on friday possibly thirty seven in die hard but that's nifty ducked the low forty's or the breeze out of the interior for many places during saturday event even culminate in a shower or two or least of fairly windy weather now south of all the action southern africa has been recently dry recently but the cloud is building again more rain gathering for the western cape. the weather sponsored by cattle peace. on package price what were you hearing whether on line horrendous things you misunderstood. or if you join a sunday sacked a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and chips to eat this is a dialogue. about some of this except perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making to. join the conversation amount

on iraq, iran and north korea alike. he has a perfect record on disastrous decisions. this is a person who the president is relying on for counsel. if you look at what he said about north korea and nuclear weapons in the past, that he now is the one advising the president on how to proceed with these negotiations. >> yeah. bolton has taken great pride in breaking agreements, destroying agreements, destroying the possibility of agreements. he's the one that convinced president trump that the north koreans were about to pull out of the summit so he, trump, had to but out first in order to save face. cleverly manipulating the insecurities of our current president. that was a wrong decision. it wasn't true. clearly, kim does not want to pull out of the summit so he gave the president bad advice. he got us into the mess we're now in. the same has been true on the iraq war. said it would be a cakewalk. on the first north korean agreement we had that froze the bomb program, flows the plutonium. bolton's quote, "it was the hammer i needed to destroy the agreement." he has done

defense then the united states would be able to attack iran and secondly iran's presence in syria and iraq iran knows that if it pulls out of syria and iraq then the extremists would be able to reemerge again and then we would have a national security threat so let me jump in here are simple let me but in addition to that hang on the issue pay only go to would we go to adel before we go to the break here adele i had the impression that speech was written by the israeli foreign ministry what do you think twenty seconds before we go to the break. well i think they say these are make you be making this noise since in the mid ninety's. it's actually happening koreans that i don't think that had this sort of white artists had to she. that you know it would be a good idea if he actually put her out to speak for a general i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the broken deal with the round stage with our to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and i'll be speaking to a guest in the world of politics school

to the iraq iran. girl. who are so very happy looking couple there and it was the march in fact that brought them together because rob has been taking part in more wins for ten years now and tricia has been helping him with his research they are both part of a group which is dedicated to a soviet division which forty against the nazis and starving we caught up with them to him more about their story. i wanted to be really something memorable it was an important event something that tricia and i really think is very important to be out and participate in i wasn't expecting that what happened was he completely caught me off guard it was great because you know given statism are just something that we both feel very strongly about that's definitely something that will live on forever. when we go through what's called a living history event where regular people will come out to our shows and a lot of them well ask me why i am portraying the bad guys of the war and then i have to explain to them how the soviet uni

diplomatic ties with iran accusing tehran of supporting the opposition group the policy front pasar is fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is on the moroccan control of iraq accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting policy by training and arming its fighters the rocket will close its embassy in tehran and will expel the iranian ambassador about. the reason behind what we did today. is related to a threat to our national security and to the safety of our citizens morocco has obtained strong indications and evidence that hezbollah in coordination with and support from the iranian embassy. has provided all kinds of support to the post to foreign military commando and to train the policy they even handed arms to the policy in september and november i have handed all this evidence today to my iranian colleague during a visit to tehran. millions of privately owned homes could be seized by the government in syria under a new property law syrians have until the middle of next month to present their deeds of ownership or risk losing their properties that includes the hundreds of thousands of people who've been displaced and fear returning to gover

diplomatic ties with iran accusing terrine of supporting the opposition group the policy front policy areas fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under control of iraq accuses iran and its lebanese hezbollah of supporting by training and arming its fighters close its embassy in tehran expel the iranian ambassador in . the reason behind what we did today is related to a threat to our national security and to the safety of our citizens morocco has obtained strong indications and evidence that hezbollah in coordination with and support from the iranian embassy. has provided all kinds of support to the polish sario to form a military commando and to train the policy area that even handed arms to the palace are you in september and november i have handed all this evidence today to my iranian colleague during a visit to tehran. the highest ranking chinese official device that north koreans three years has arrived china's foreign minister is there for a two day trip relations have been strained over a cotton chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program it comes as north korea's leader kim jong un works to improve ties with

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the porous border here between iraq and iran means the southern province has become a prime smugglingve come to the shisha bar to catch up with 21—year—old shallal who i met earlier. i am meeting up with his friends who are all angry with the government in baghdad. what about drug abuse? that is a big problem here in basra as well. it is 3:00 in the morning and the swat team are homing in on theirfinal target in jumhouria. meth addiction is fuelling crime in the city. and it is young men mostly who are the perpetrators. 15 years after the fall of saddam hussein, iraq is in a fragile and perilous state. with all the attention on the fight against isis in the north, basra and the predominantly shia south feels forgotten. and it is the young who are paying the price. another iraqi generation at risk of being lost. hello once again. let's see how the rest of the weekend is going to push on. fine, dry and sunny for the most pa rt on. fine, dry and sunny for the most part on saturday, but there was low cloud on the irish sea coasts. many more of you enjoyed pictures akin to that. it will be

a porous border here between iraq and iran means the southern province has become a prime smuggling routeia, i've come to the shisha bar to catch up with 21—year—old shallal who i met earlier. i'm meeting up with his friends, who are all angry with the government in baghdad. what about drug abuse? that's a big problem here in basra as well. it's 3am in the morning and the swat team are honing in on theirfinal target in jumhuriyah. meth addiction is fuelling crime in the city. and it's young men mostly who are the perpetrators. 15 years after the fall of saddam hussein, iraq is in a fragile and perilous state. with all the attention on the fight against isis in the north, basra and the predominantly shia south feels forgotten. and it's the young who are paying the price. another iraqi generation at risk of being lost. hello. wednesday gets off to a fine start for many of us but for some it's not going to last as we get rain heading in from the west. we saw a weather system move through on tuesday. this one here, the leading edge of cooler air so things cool down for many. not quite into ea

the porous border here between iraq and iran means the southern province has become a prime smuggling come to the shisha bar to catch up with 21—year—old shallal who i met earlier. i am meeting up with his friends who are all angry with the government in baghdad. what about drug abuse? that is a big problem here in basra as well. it is 3:00 in the morning and the swat team are honing in on theirfinal target in jumhouria. meth addiction is fuelling crime in the city. and it is young men mostly who are the perpetrators. 15 years after the fall of saddam hussein, iraq is in a fragile and perilous state. with all the attention on the fight against isis in the north, basra and the predominantly shia south feels forgotten. and it is the young who are paying the price. another iraqi generation at risk of being lost. hello there. a glorious start to the bank holiday weekend. top temperature 2a degrees was reached in hampshire. after a lovely day on saturday, there were glorious sunsets up and down the uk, like this one in wakefield in west yorkshire. not find everywhere. seam is in the icy. t

the porous border here between iraq and iran means the southern province has become a prime smugglingi've come to the shisha bar to catch up with 21—year—old shallal, who i met earlier. i am meeting up with his friends who are all angry with the government in baghdad. what about drug abuse? that is a big problem here in basra as well. it is 3:00 in the morning, and the swat team are honing in on theirfinal target in jumhouria. meth addiction is fuelling crime in the city. and it is young men mostly who are the perpetrators. 15 years after the fall of saddam hussein, iraq is in a fragile and perilous state. with all the attention on the fight against isis in the north, basra and the predominantly shia south feels forgotten. and it is the young who are paying the price. another iraqi generation at risk of being lost. hello. we will do the next few days in some detail. we will try and identify some of the trends that will affect the british isles. what has affected many of us bus far, dry, fine and sunny conditions. 0n bank holiday monday we are looking back to 1999 for the last time we

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