that's the culture that developed after the islamic revolution. no one is happy with the way things are at the moment. sometimes when we're together we joke with our elders that it's their fault. and they say it's true but this is not the way things were supposed to turn out or this and i feel no. you know their system would say hello some of. the club is already planning its next off road tour the next escape from everyday life it's not easy for young people in iran to live their dreams. our next stop is mashad a bustling city in the northeast of the country one of iran's most significant centers of religious and political power. it's a public holiday the anniversary of the martyrdom of a mom raising a descendent of the islamic prophet muhammad and the eighth shiites in. the shrine is managed by an extremely wealthy religious foundation an institution that wields a lot of power not only in mashad but also on the regime in tehran. the . crowds of pilgrims mark the public holiday by visiting the shrine every year sees some twenty seven million devo

forty years after the islamic revolution iran is a country torn between the conservative influence of the clerics and a desire for change. in tone line and find out what's going on in the world in a matter of minutes you can expect the younger generation to stand still young people will move on and if it quickly. many are pushing back against the country strict social and cultural laws on the isle there's a new law that says we can only sing in the persian but since we started out we've always aim to be international and our struggle. and many are testing their own limits in their bid for greater freedom. this is the first time we've done an off road tour that i'm going into the forest and spending the night away from home it's great to have a potentially wealthy country struggling with powerful outside enemies and its own domestic problems. young with iran is known to be rich in natural resources but the government can't even manage one island in a. land of contradictions at once unsettling and breathtakingly beautiful. mamma granites have a bitter skin but they're sweet inside just

escalation in the region represented what he called a decisive moment for the islamic revolution. is joining us from ron and it sounds like things are heating up in iran what's new in the statements made by her saying . well the rhetoric is certainly getting more and more heated as the days go by we've been hearing from a chorus of iranian leaders and the phrasing they're using the words they're using are getting more and more combative as american pressure on iran grows exceedingly every day but the message largely remains the same these are the same policies that have been in place for a while major general hussein salome said that iran is on the verge of a full scale confrontation that is very very strong rhetoric very very scary words there from mr salami but the supreme leader already warned of a possible war with the united states a few weeks ago so really reinforcing the same point coming from a military commander in iran he also said that america's behavior in the region is ostentatious and again the supreme leader in a speech a few days ago said that the uproar from the u

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show of support for the palestinian cause iran has marked the day since the start of its 979 islamic revolution it comes just weeks before the white house presents the economic part of its long awaited peace plan in bahrain. hayom it was there was seen in the message of jerusalem day is that palestine will live forever and jerusalem belongs to all muslims and over the past 2 years none of the plots of the enemies of islam against jerusalem has been successfully 1st they tried making jerusalem the capital of the aggressors we saw that other than one or 2 small countries no one else accepted that then they tried to give the golan heights to israel no country and all the international community accepted that now they're up to the deal of the century i believe it will be the bankruptcy of the century it will definitely go no way we're going to weather update next he announces sirup then decades on how the victims of a mass killing during the bosnian war of 5 believe being identified plus. this is pride and one of the toughest years that i've experienced in my 40 plus years of farming american farme

iran is marking the 40th anniversary of the islamic revolution it comes at a time of economic and diplomatic tensions and months as hasn't improved since the u.s. quit the international nuclear deal and put fresh sanctions on iran. life for ordinary people in iraq is getting harder here in tehran central bazaar it's clear that sanctions are biting and discontent is growing. as i know after matters don't come from china just the latest come from london why should sanctions affect what we pay for products that come from here what does it have to do with the dollar at issue. unemployment is hovering around 12 percent but the youth unemployment rate is closer to 30 percent businesses aren't able to hire . saturn i gave the employees a handful of people in her small business selling water purifiers but she's struggling to stay liquid. their upper left corner value with national currency drops it doesn't just affect business it affects the standard of living and the way of life. people have to change their priorities. iranian businesses had hoped for some relief through the instax mechanism create

reporter: 40 years after the revolution, many iranians don't believe in a future in the islamic republicpeople like behzad, his wife bahar, and their son diako. the young family now wants to try its luck elsewhere. ♪ host: we're depleting our planet's resources at a startling rate. since 1970, the amount of raw materials extracted has tripled. in 2017 it was 92 billion tons per year. over the next 40 years, that's set to doublble, to 190 billin tons. large stretches of land have already become desert. and in many areas, the water, air, and soil have become toxic, poisoning those who live there. reporter: looking at these children, you'd have no idea how much poison is hidden inside them. the director of cerro de pasco elementary school says the first signs are learning and concentration deficits. [translated] >> blog often comes out of -- blood often comes out of their nose when they sneeze. they can't pay attention for long. i'm sure it's to do with the lead in their blood. reporter: the elementary school is located right next to a place that dominates the town of cerro de pasco, a giga

iran coverage for most americans this conflict goes back to $979.00 the islamic revolution and the subsequent hostage taking a $52.00 americans in tehran held captive in their embassy for 444 days but it's what led to the 1979 hostage crisis that iranians remember the 1953 and the u.s. led cooed that brought down the government of prime minister mohammad mosaddegh and reinstalled the autocratic shah of iran who would rule his people for a quarter century but there's even more to us iran has such as the role that america played in the iran iraq war in the 1980 s. when the reagan administration helped sadam the saints forces and his army used chemical weapons at least 100000 iranians were casualties but despite that long troubled backstory in 2015 there ron came to an agreement with the u.s. the e.u. and 5 other countries in which it agreed to limit its national nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions the iranians stuck to their end of the deal trump administration did not pulling out of the pact last year unilaterally but u.s. news outlets that are usually not shy wit

is doing everything it can to undermine iran, and he says this was a key moment in the islamic revolution. now, of course all of this coming as apparently president trump is unhappy with some of his senior advisers on all of this, feeling that they are moving too fast and forcefully towards what could be an armed conflict with the iranians, of course president trump ran on a ticket of wanting to get out and stopping costly wars in the middle east. now, of course it seems as though he believes that maybe the u.s. might be headed toward one. all of this coming as there's a bit of issues between the united states and its allies. the brits standing by one of their general's comments, at this point in time, coalition against isis is not seeing increased evidence of iranian posturing in iran and syria. cnn learning from a senior source in the state department that apparently that is not true, that the brits are wrong, and that internally they know that this general misspoke though they don't believe there was any sort of malicious intent behind it. >> fred pleitgen in teheran. thanks, fred. >>>

forty years after the islamic revolution iran remains isolated the u.s. sanctions are weighing heavily on the economy but most iranians blame their own government for squandering huge sums on military conflicts in yemen and syria. discontent is growing as is the pressure for iranians to be creative to make ends meet. as adults besought also has a new business idea he meets a friend in the city center they plan to import coffee beans from turkey that roast package and sell the product in your. ron initially somebody must suffer when you are the one of others who want to produce for the domestic markers what about in the long term we want to export coffee to armenia georgia azerbaijan and iraq avoids all the talk here. but the value of iran's real continues to fall making it unlikely that assad's latest business idea will succeed it seems so have no choice but to follow in his brother's footsteps who has been living abroad for years. the next she ate meat on the road they says he becomes homesick as soon as he sees a map of iran he misses his homeland livin

escalation in the region represents what he calls a decisive moment for the islamic revolution iran's u.n. mission also accused washington of trying to deliberately provoke a confrontation by claiming tehran.

escalation in the region represented what he called a decisive moment for the islamic revolution iran's u.n. mission also accused washington of trying to deliberately provoke a confrontation by claiming to horizon is a threat to the region themba thriving is joining us from where it seems like things are heating up should we be concerned about the latest comments from the head of the revolutionary guard will lot of what major general hussein salami said is a more. energized wording for stated policy or for things that have been said before by president hassan rouhani by the supreme leader himself he reiterated a lot of points that we have the country has to be ready for a confrontation with the united states but he also said that they were being ostentatious that they were behaving in an ostentatious way larger.

show of support for the palestinian cause iran has marked the day since the start of its 979 islamic revolution it comes just weeks before the white house presents the economic part of its long awaited peace plan in bahrain. hayom it was there was seen in the message of jerusalem day is that palestine will live forever and jerusalem belongs to all muslims and over the past 2 years none of the plots of the .

the pressures by our enemies, he said, is a war unprecedented in the history of our islamic revolutionave a problem with our banks, oil sales, imports or exports. his rallying cry comes amid growing anger at a slump in the economy caused by sanctions and sustained pressure from washington over the country's nuclear programme. translation: we are here today to defend our right to nuclear technology. this is a right of all nations and the islamic republic has used this right, but they have intensified sanctions and made life very hard for the iranian people. protesters here back president rouhani's recent threat to restart nuclear activities, but that risks killing the landmark nuclear deal that america pulled out of a year ago, a decision robustly defended on saturday by the us secretary of state. we struck a terrible agreement with the islamic republic of iran to put the regime's campaigns of terrorism and proxy wars on steroids. as its military build—up continues, the pentagon claims iran was preparing to stage attacks against us forces or interests. that is dismissed as fake intellig

show of support for the palestinian cause iran has marked the day since the start of its 979 islamic revolution. sudan's military council says the protests in the capital khartoum is a danger to the country demonstrators have been staging a sit in outside the military headquarters for weeks police in algeria have reportedly arrested dozens of protesters rallying in the capital algiers hundreds gathered for the 15th friday calling for the interim president to leave office immediately at a u.s. spelling bee a see the most extraordinary outcome of it it's 94 year history after it ended in an age way tie i p e. $600.00 supporters under the age of 15 took part of the annual scripps national spelling bee in maryland each of the winners will receive a $50000.00 cash. as the headlines of these continues on al-jazeera after crimea russia's dirty secrets next. yes i never thought of nationalising on the ballot it was the last watching that. bit of superiority you haven't asked. to show me off by the other mean there but tyler myers is near what i've heard of. us how many stops the good to go to do you li

hassan rouhani said the nation was facing pressure never before seen in the history of the islamic revolutionil sales and international trade have all been affected, he said. with the us deploying a second warship to the region. mr rouhani urged his country's factions to unite and counteract the threat. i'm joined now by professor seyed mohammed marandi in iran. he helped negotiate the iran nuclear deal and is now working at the university of tehran. professor, thank you so much for your time. first of all, hassan rouhani, the iranian president, has wa nt of rouhani, the iranian president, has want of difficult times ahead. what is he talking about? well, he was saying that the situation is very similarto during saying that the situation is very similar to during the war period when saddam hussein was supported by western countries and the united states. he was even giving —— given chemical weapons by western countries to use extensively against iranians. there was a war, we were sanctioned and he was given everything he needed but now he is saying that the sanctions are that ofa saying that

prime minister abe and the japanese have long-standing relations with iran before and after the islamic revolutionifaceted piece of the puzzle coming together. heather: in terms of negotiations, what could be negotiated that would benefit the us? >> it is open to interpretation, japan would have to find a way to dampen iran's incentive against the us and restrain the nuclear program and convince iran it is in iran's interest to come back to the negotiating table and multilateral eyes those talks through another mechanism but all of this is too early. iran is looking to double down, triple down in the face of american pressure. heather: we had iraq offer to help with negotiations as well. >> the more successful the administration's pressure campaign is, the more allies like japan or thoughts between tehran and washington such as iraq looking to offset tensions and mediate so the administration must apply pressure to make sure tehran knows it is serious about washington's desire for change with the broader and better deal. heather: at the same time dealing with north korea. >> similar issue, the pre

region in a show of support for palestinians iran is not the day since the start of its 979 islamic revolution it comes just weeks before the white house presents its long awaited peace plan in bahrain. mexico's president wants talks with washington after donald trump said he'll impose tariffs on goods from mexico unless it stops illegal immigration the u.s. president posted this video on twitter which appears to show 1000 migrants trying to cross the border trump says the 5 percent tariff will be enforced from june 10th of will be increased every month until something is done. we will not keep our arms crossed until june the 10th to see if he was serious or not but i do trust this is something which is not meant to be enacted because it would be very grave. the battle with china of a tariffs is taking a toll on america's midwest many follows a struggling as the trade dispute escalates but for now president donald trump still draws support from the region as well handled reports from colfax illinois. as the u.s. administration plans ahead in its trade with china american farmers say they're ge

escalation in the region represented what he called a decisive moment for the islamic revolution iran's u.n. mission also accused washington of trying to deliberately provoke a confrontation by claiming to have a threat to the region. joining us from iran where it seems like things are heating up should we be concerned about the latest comments from the head of the revolutionary guard. well a lot of what major general hussein salami said is a more. energized wording for stated policy or for things that have been said before by president hassan rouhani by the supreme leader himself he reiterated a lot of points that we have that the country has to be ready for a confrontation with the united states but he also said that they were being ostentatious that they were behaving in an ostentatious way largely echoing what the supreme leader said in his speech on tuesday that america's part is worse than it's bite but he did say something that had a tactical edge to it he said that the enemy has come to the battlefield this time with all of its capabilities at its disposal and that that is why i

of support for the palestinian cause iran has got the day since the start of its 97 tonight islamic revolution comes just weeks before the white house presents the economic powers. of its long awaited peace plan for the region in bahrain. hey ahmed was there was. the message of jerusalem day is that palestine will live forever and jerusalem belongs to all muslims and over the past 2 years none of the plots of the enemies of islam against jerusalem has been successfully 1st they tried making jerusalem the capital of the aggressors we saw that other than one or 2 small countries no one else accepted that then they tried to give the golan heights to israel no country nor the international community accepted that now they're after the deal of the century i believe it will be the bankruptcy of the century it will definitely go nowhere iran has hit back at accusations made by arab leaders that it's a threat to global security to describe their condemnation as baseless and said that saudi arabia was dividing the entire region the leaders attended emergency summit in mecca where saudi king solomon cal

against iran, you would remember a month ago the white house took the rare step of designating islamic revolutionrd a terrorist organization. >> yeah, more on this about 10 minutes here, thank you so much. turning to fox news alert, intense manhunt underway after officer ambushed outside of police station in mississippi, unidentified on duty police officer was sitting in parking lot at headquarters when gunman allegedly fired multiple shots and ran away. authorities releasing this surveillance photo of the suspect but information about him is quite limited at this hour. this is the 16th officer shot and killed in the line of duty this year. carley: teen football star featured in sports illustrated is shot dead, police say a stray bullet hit mckenzie at party in illinois. featured by sports illustrated last year as one of 16 for future in sports, mckenzie wanted to play in nfl and had scholarships to university of missouri and university of illinois. police are still looking for suspect. rob: israeli army lifting protected restrictions on residents in israel after days of fighting, some of the blo

escalation in the region represents what he calls a decisive moment for the islamic revolution. well as in buzzer obvious live for us in tehran zain it seems that things are clearly heating up should we be concerned about the various statements we've been hearing. the rhetoric is definitely ratcheting up it has been for the last several weeks and months but the message essentially is the same iranian lawmakers civilian leaders elected officials as well as the military are all staying on point on a couple of specific things major general hussein salome the relatively new leader of the islamic revolutionary guard corps certainly saying making very strong statements that were broadcast on state media earlier today he said that iran and the united states on the verge of a full scale confrontation of course the supreme leader has been warning for some time now that war might happen but he's also said that a military confrontation is unlikely he said that america is behaving ostentatiously the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has also said that all of that is just an uproar in th

escalation in the region represents what he calls a decisive moment for the islamic revolution well zain bazarov is live for us in tehran saying it clearly seems like things are heating up in tehran should we be concerned about what we're hearing from the revolutionary guard. well a lot of what he has said in statements that were broadcast on state media are harsher more heavy ways of reiterating the same point that leaders have been making this whole time he said that the that iran is on the verge of a full scale confrontation with the supreme leader a few days ago or a few weeks ago has warned the iranian people that a war with the united states could happen though he has said that military intervention is unlikely now mr salami also said that the united states is behaving in an ostentatious way the supreme leader has said that this uproar that the u.s. is trying to create in the middle east these are all intimidation tactics now what he did say that was interesting to have sort of tactical angle was talking about how the enemy has come to the battlefield with all of their capabilities

will fail and that this is one of the biggest tests ever, he said, of the islamic revolution in iran. certainly a lot of big things happening on the ground in teheran. a u.s. military official about iran's latest news and what's caused a big build up. apparently a lot of it was satellite images of iranian boats moving around rockets or short range missiles. from what we are learning, it's unclear whether or not the iranians would have been able to shoot those missiles or whether or not they were trying to move them from two other places. we understand they have been noou moved from the port of chabahar, really a very sensitive, dangerous area. meanwhile we are also learning that apparently president trump is frustrated with some of his advisers. he obviously feels that right now a lot of them are moving very very quickly to build up here in iran. with that the threat of a military confrontation becoming a lot bigger than it was in the past. president trump also looking for those negotiations and of course also still trying to make good on his promise to get america out of costly wars

escalation in the region represented a decisive moment for the islamic revolution the russian president vladimir putin supports the iran nuclear deal he says the u.s. will be responsible if it collapses. we regret that the deal stealing apart our position is known to partners including the americans to keep the maintenance of the agreement after the signing of the agreement iran was and still is the world's most verifiable and transparent country in this. americans have withdrawn the deal is coming apart and european countries can't do anything to save it and can't really cooperate with iran to compensate their economic losses but it makes its 1st steps in responding announce its withdrawal everyone forget that it was the us who initiated the collapse and everyone will into playing it all on iran. the obvious to see group amnesty international says it has evidence war crimes may have been committed in libya. has waged a 6 week long offensive to capture the capital tripoli from the un recognized government. has gathered witness statements and compiled satellite images which it says revea

in the first 7 1/2 years of the eight-year conflict khomeini, the founding father of the islamic revolutionsaid war, war, war until victory. his goal like president bush was to topple the baathist rejeechl saddam hussein in baghdad. he failed. but only after immense cost and immense pressure did he do a 180 and accept a u.n. ceasefire resolution which he like toend accepting -- which he likened to drinking from a poison chalice. the goal now is to get khamenei, khomeini's successor, to feet pain of the successions and to come to the negotiating table even though he is today saying he will not come and talk with america. so it needs to be maximum pressure for iran to realize that there is no way out but through other than a capitulation. >> where do you stoonand on the john bolton part of this story, the president's national security adviser who famously advocated regime change in iran. listen first to what a u.s. senator had to say about him on cnn earlier today. >> john bolton would very much like to go to war. he wrote and has said multiple times, look, iran will never stop their nuclear

with iraq in the 1980's and that he said amount to "a war unprecedented in the history of our islamic revolution." as tensions risise in the gulf region, saudi arabia is climbibg two of i its oil tanankers were dadamaged anand what it scriribs a sasabotage a attacoff the coct of the uninited arab emirates. the e saudi energy minister said one of the ships w was due to pi up saudidi oil to dever to the ununited statates. the e attacks reportedly caused damage to the vessels, but no caps off these or oil spill's. last w week, the.s.. warned iran or its proroxies could be targeting g ips in thehe region. iran resesponded to ththe latest news aboutut warning. in environmental news, nearly all the countries in the world have agreed to curb plastic waste. except the united states. in a landmark agreement, 187 governments agreed to add plastic to the treaty that regulates the movement of hazardous materials between coununtries. the u.s. was not involved in negotiations because it is one of just two countries that has not signed the treaty. the amended treaty will make it more difficult for rich countri

show of support for the palestinian cause iran has bought the day since the start of its 1979 islamic revolution police in algeria have reportedly arrested dozens of protesters rallying in the capital algiers 100 scattered for the 15th friday calling for the interim president to leave office immediately. i'll be back with an hour of news and a little over 25 minutes but let's get you back to crimea russia's dirty secret. 49 young men have been disappeared since the forced an accession of crimea by russia in 2014 most were never seen again the very 1st was irving game of the day his father grieves for his missing son kidnapped he says my russian security services. move in with his blue eyes as you do. this kind of a shocker to the sheeted cops took my report is. yes and i suspect he did by ok i mean you don't lose any with incentives for he made me stand yeah yeah i mean that's the whole example with me and i he you know you would yes nice to know you from that that they're a little crazy. i think other some are only for the. good of this is going to resonate the course and that this kitchen is.

is trying to bring iran to its knees and they say it is the biggest test for the islamic revolution sinceened in 1979. guys, i managed to speak to a former revolutionary guard senior commander. he said america needs to watch out for the fact that the iranians have the ballistic missiles program but next to almost every u.s. military base there is an iranian militia and those would be mobilized. >> so what's rhetoric and what's fact here? the line is so important. joining me is the former democratic ranking member of the house intelligence committee and the director and president and ceo of the wilson center. thank you very much thank you very much for being with us, jane. you spent so many years looking at this type of thing. i know you haven't seen the classified information out there now. none of us have. but we have word there are photos of missiles being loaded onto small iranian vessels. word of intercepts of conversations with the iranians making threats or talking about specific threats against u.s. targets in the middle east. as an expert consumer of this type of intelligence, wha

hardliners, these mullahs within the regime that are bent on protecting the principles of the 1979 islamic revolution, and those are the individuals that we need to target. we need to weaken their power, and we need to empower the moderates and the people of iran to do something about it. trish: is that regime change? >> it's going -- i think it is regime change over time. it's long-term. but it's got to come from the iranian people. we can't go over there and conduct military action. it has to come from the iranian people internally. trish: well, you know, i think -- i think that the reality is, you know, as all of this heats up and tensions continue to escalate, nobody wants the outcome that you hear talked about in some of the mainstream media outlets. nobody wants that. the president doesn't want that. even the ayatollah has said there will be no war. so it's important i think that the dialogue continue, that it stay open, that, yeah, they get some changes there, and we make sure that we keep as many people out of harm's way as we can. bret, good to see you. thank you very much. coming up, rememb

they are pushed against open door for much of the history of the last 40 years since the islamic revolution and have not paid a price for killing hundreds of americans iraq in the last decade and do not pay a price for the towers and they never paid a price for taking out the black hostage when they first came to power. >> to me carter paid a price. >> with talk about the decorations and that u.s. embassies in baghdad or what are you hearing about that? what is that actual threat because that is not something that is unlikely considering the number of nonemergency personnel americans in those parts of the world. >> and also our democratic compounds are fortresses in their very much removed from something that can be accessed by ordinary iraqis. that tells me there's a threat that is not exactly specific but a general threat if you will that indicates iran through its proxies want to strike either u.s. military or manifestations around persian gulf or broader or broader diplomat. as a place where i ran has the most ability to act which is unfortunately inside iraq and unfortunately after all