you couldinally, if comment, medea benjamin, on latn iranian interest in iraq, syria, lebanon, now israel is having its snap elections tomorrow, not clear what will happen out of that, but leading up to it, the prime minister benjamin netanyahu singh he will annex one third of the west bank. all o othat togetether withth wt is happepening right now?? >> that's right. the israelis have been trying to goad united states into a military attack on iran's nuclear research facicilities. let's remember it is israel who has nuclear weapons and iran does not. this pressure cocoming from israrael, given how close the trumpet administration is to the israelis, and the israelis f forcesmbing of iranian in these different a areas has really escalated this conflict. i think we should think of this as a kindred 1914 before the first rolled war were any incidedent whether it is provokd by the israelis by the saudis, can drag the u.s. into war that would be absolutely catastrophic for the entire region. we must stop that from happening. amy: i wanant to thank you for being with us. medea benjamin, co-foun

medea benjamin, co-founder of codepink. in iran earlier this year. author of several books, including "kingdom of the unjust: behind the u.s.-saudi connection." her latest "inside iran: the , real history and politics of the islamic republic of iran." peter salisbury is the international crisis group's senior analyst for yemen. this is democracy now! when we come back, covering climate now. 250 news organizations around the country are focusing on climate this week leading up to the u.n. climate summit september 23 at the united nations. and this week's global climate strike on september 20. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: best known for starting the band the cars. he died on sunday here in new york. this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. covering climate now. that is the name of new global initiative by the nation to improve global coverage of the climate crisis. more than 250 media outlets around the world, including signed onnow!, have to the effort. for years, the corporate media has been criticized for not connecting the dots between climat

let's ask well traveled activist and code pink founder medea benjamin i understand from your traveling companion and write that as you and she returned from a trip to iran earlier this year your warm welcome at dulles airport here included the f.b.i. what did they ask you well that was very funny because they you know you go through secondary screening and then there's somebody else waiting for you and they were very nice and asked us a lot about what we did or who we met with but then they had a packet for us and it was all full of information including how we could apply to be a registered foreign agent for the iranian government and i said i don't think i want to do that i was actually just going to meet iranian people just like we go all over the world to meet people and talk to them both people and people kind of diplomatic delegations as well as just general travel to know what other countries are like a pal of mine went to work cuba on one of these people that people exchanges and they were all pretending to be photographers you need some excuse to go and it's a shame that thing