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it adds iran's intention to construct a railway line connecting the persian gulf to the mediterranean sea, the iran, iraq, syria railway link, as it's called. an ambitious project would run from busra in southern iraq to abu kamal on the iraqi iranian, syrian border and extend to der in northeastern syria. next, deep dive will iran-iraq rail ambitions turn into reality. iran drives the project. it said that the rc administration is using the rail project as part of a strategy to secure its regional position, creating diverse transit routs with neighboring countries that employ sea, road and rail connections. adding, tehwan is pursuing the basra, shalamsha railway, conjunction with connections to iranian ports on the persian gulf and a wide. all right, some of the opinions there through the websites that we peruse through, which we rela to you, let's see what our guests think, this is our first q&a. let me introduce them. first up, we have ahmed salih joining us, he is a political economy analyst. welcome to economic divide, so we have this announcement which is major one that has been

this conal connected port said on the mediterranean coast to gulf of sweez in the red sea. this waterway later became known as the swiss canal. the canal was built so that ships traveling from the west to the ports of the east of the world would not have to go around the african continent. the chief of staff of the israeli army general yijat graban called on foreign minister aba even to find a diplomatic solution to the issue because israel was not ready for war as it should be on may the 25th 1967 ebbed went to the states to know the us opinion about their new problem. i've been asked by my government to explore what these governments intend to do in order to reopen this international waterway to a situation. well, i here really to find out what the united states intends to do. lindon b johnson, then president of the united states, told even that he did not want israel to start a war. during this meeting, johnson read hard a secret document to even. the document stated that israel will not be alone unless it decides to go alone. the soviet union said the same words to egyp

it adds iran's intention to construct a railway line connecting the persian gulf to the mediterranean sea, the iran, iraq, syria railway, link, as it's called. an ambitious project would run from basra in southern iraq to abu kamal on the iraqi iranian syrian border, and then extend to dear in northeastern syria. next, deep dive will iran, iraq. rail ambitions turn into reality. iran drives the project. it said that the rc administration is using the rail project as part of a strategy to secure its regional position, creating diverse transit routes with neighboring countries that employ sea, road and rail connections. adding tehran is pursuing the basra, shalamsha railway, conjunction with connections to iranian ports on the persian gulf and a wide expansion of iran's national railway network that entails at least 15 major. projects. all right, some of the opinions there through the websites that we peruse through, which we relate to you. let's see what our guests think, this is our first q&a. let me introduce them. first up, we have ahmed salhi joining us, he is a political economy a

it might come from the mediterranean, the gulf, etc.. but these are also high priority where the indian ocean comes into it. we are always thinking about them wanting to balance india within the indian ocean as well. somewhat a fight for regional hegemony within the indian ocean. thomas: so i think the answer to that question was no. they have put their bases, since then, where it suits them, and not so much us. we could probably go on here for a while. any really quick questions? alright, let's do it really quickly. >> thank you for the talk, i really appreciate it. i know there is no direct causality where chinese -- china is putting its bases but are there any tipping points out of the economic relationships that would make you think they are moving more towards naval bases within the area? brent: not -- alex: not necessarily. the broader geopolitical focus is aligned to the economics of the thinking is probably that these two are more interconnected than they have been in the past. clearly because a pandemic and domestic economic con

we have sent two aircraft carrier groups to eastern mediterranean and persian gulf, they both were going to the mediterranean, the eisenhower now is going to persian gulf. back on the ground, though, u.s. troops have become targets, at least 13 times and congressman waltz said 14 times in the last week. they have been hit by drone attacks. the biden administration says iran-backed proxy, paid terrorists are responsible for the attack. 24 troops were injured after strikes on two outposts in syria and iraq on october 18th. pentagon sent a warning to iran and the proxies. >> we remain deeply concerned by the potential for future attack on our troops. we have seen and i'm guesstimating, about a dozen over the last several days and taking it very seriously. our commanders have right to defend themselves and are taking appropriate force measures. >> harris: ari. >> they are not taking it serious. we are saying to iran, attempted murder is fine, if they murder somebody, maybe we'll do something different. i suspect joe biden's knees will buckle and he will not do what is necessary. i miss donal

dispute was over waterway built in 1869 in egypt. this canal connected port said on the mediterranean coast to the gulf to the ports of the east of the world would not have to go around the african continent. the sus canal company was owned by britain for many years, but the new egyptian president gamal abdul nasir gave a fervent speech on july the 26th, 1956 in alexandria, announcing the nationalization of the swiss canal company. then he raised the flag of his country in that region as the sign of this nationalization. all assets of swez international company, most of which belong to britain and france were frozen. the french. who resented the egyptian aid to the algerian revolutionaries, in addition to the sweez affair held a secret meeting in paris with the british who had been deprived of the huge swiss canal shipping revenue. this top secret meeting had very special guest, israeli representative shimon perres. the french and british believed that they had to invagle israel into invading egypt in order to take revenge on gamal abdul nasir. they knew that nasa banned the israeli ships and planes fr

dispute was over waterway built in 1869 in egypt, this canal connected port said on the mediterranean coast to the gulf of sweez in the red. this waterway later became known as a swiss canal. the canal was built so that ships traveling from the west to the port of east of the world would not have to go around the african continent. i've been asked to my government to explore what these government to in order to reopen this international waterway to a situation, well i come here really to find out what the united states intend to do. lindon b johnson, then president of the united states, told even that he did not want israel to start a war. during this meeting, johnson read part of the secret documents. even document stated israel will not be alone unless it decides to go alone. soviet union set the same war to egypt and urged them not to start a war. in practice, however, egypt did start the war by closing the straight of tiran to israel. 45 minutes later, the runways of the egyptian. three airports were bombed and all the agent fighters were targeted by israel rockets around without even having a chan

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what's going to do next in trying to make life difficult for the allies of the eastern mediterranean and the gulf but china certainly can serve as a stabilizing force for reasons of their own and reasons of everybody else's. it's likely that things will be quiet for a while until something else happens, but this may be the last time for a while that we've seen any kind of action like this. >> and again for those of you watching, the united states announced basically the top of this hour that it has carried out self-defense of strikes on two facilities in eastern syria used by iran's revolutionary guard as a result of unsuccessful attacks against u.s. personnel in iraq and syria. my thanks to andrea mitchell, colonel jack jacobs, courtney kube, and peter alexander. thank you all for joining us on this breaking news from the pentagon tonight. president biden ordering what lloyd austin has called self-defense strikes onto facilities in eastern syria used by the islamic revolutionary guard and affiliated groups. we'll be right back. aren't we all just looking for the hottest stocks? (fisher investmen

thing that uh worries me most is the sitting ducks, the sitting ducks in the eastern mediterranean and the persian gulfership those battle group, those aircraft carrier groups to be... formed as a pretext, as kind of a pretext to go and do things that they want to do against other people who are supporting hamas or supporting the palestinians in gaza, so what worries me is false flag type attack or attack where where uh these these aircraft carriers were where is as long as three soccer feels uh are handy targets for anyone and there may be people within the un. us administration would just as much see these these things attack so that retaliation of kind, retaliation and quotes could be exercised, and that's what makes things so volatile and so dangerous and we have to put a stop to that, and most of the world, i think is aboard, the only veto in the un security council of course was the united states and this has got to stop and stop soon. and and govern, help me understand the us policy because it's imperative obviously with the support of israel and other ties the us has with the saudis and what no

china, and it's now competing, we bought to aircraft carriers to israel's defense in the mediterranean, or in the gulf region. is there a danger of the us military overreach here? no, i think in this moment there's a danger of under reach. i think if we don't deployed combat power, now we're going to have a smaller problem become a bigger problem, thereby citing of more resources. so this is the danger. here's american weakness, not strength. and the endo pacific commander, recently at the pentagon podium said not a single asset has been pulled from the in the pacific for this, this fight. so the united states is a great power. we can walk and chew gum at the same time. and this is a moment to stand in my view with our ally israel, and to recognize that behind these terror puppets is the puppet master. and that's these long and can talk over on it. how close do you think a war with iran is due to events that have happened in the last 23 weeks? hard to say, but the big question is, has blog does k, ron hughes? it's a varsity terror team to try to save the junior varsity him off terror team. i primary p

china, and it's now competing, we bought to aircraft carriers to israel's defense in the mediterranean, or in the gulf region. is there a danger of the us military overreach here? no, i think in this moment there's a danger of under reach. i think if we don't deployed combat power, now we're going to have a smaller problem become a bigger problem, thereby citing of more resources. so this is the danger. here's american weakness, not strength. and the endo pacific commander, recently at the pentagon podium said not a single asset has been pulled from the in the pacific for this, this fight. so the united states is a great power. we can walk and chew gum at the same time. and this is a moment to stand in my view with our ally israel and to recognize that behind these terror puppets is the puppet master announced these mamma composed over on the alkalis. do you think a war with iran is due to events that have happened in the last 23 weeks? hard to say, but the big question is, has blog does k, ron hughes? it's a varsity terror team to try to save the junior varsity him off terror team. i primary purpose

american interests, on american bases, on the american fleet in the red sea, in the persian gulf, in the mediterraneansea, so that from diverting resources, but not entering directly into the war, because, well, the situation in iran itself is not as rosy for the regime as it seems, and a year ago we saw these huge protests, but just a few days later another murder of a girl, a 16-year-old girl died after an attack by the morality police, although it is wrong , she was wearing a headscarf incorrectly, and in iran right now they are afraid of destabilization, so they are unlikely to go to war. ok, but if it were, we see that now the discussion is actually about whether the israel defense forces will go ahead with a ground operation in the gaza sector, or further will work remotely from the air, and there was a statement from both hezbollah and iran that if a ground operation begins in the gas sector, then they will enter the battle, opening, as they say, a second... front, these were threats, is macron actually doing something today, or is macron going to do something, we remember that france also has

one of its prestigious aircraft carriers are sent to the bottom of the persian gulf or the bottom of the of the mediterranean sea, so this is very, very serious matter, and let me also let me also add this, because most people don't, most most people don't realize this, um, few weeks ago, weeks ago before, october 7th happened, before the the situation happened where uh, the resist palestinian resistance force responded against the israeli regime. joe biden was trying to get money for ukraine, but you had republicans in congress who were refusing to allocate more money for ukraine. joe biden then said, he has a plan, another way of getting this money. all right, then came october the 7th, the so-called 9:11 attack upon designing state, joe biden then go to israel, he's talking to benjamin netanyahu, and then what comes out of that is joe biden is trying to structure now an omnibus bill that would allow money for ukraine, money for taiwan, so taiwan obviously the... target is china, so you have targeting uh russia with ukraine, targeting china with taiwan, and then targeting the muslim world with israel, isra

president moved so rapidly and decisively to get an aircraft carrier into the eastern mediterranean, to get aircraft into the gulfecause he wants to send a very clear message of deterrence to any state or any actor that would seek to exploit this situation. >> well, iran's foreign minister put out a public statement saying that iran cannot remain a spectator. what does that mean to you? are you concerned about proxy forces or are you concerned that state of iran is getting drawn in? >> first, we are concerned about proxy forces. lebanese hezbollah, a proxy force of iran, is there a raid on israel' northern border with considerable military capacity and a history of attacking the state of israel. in fact, we have seen in the last few days, skirmishes across that northern border that only enhances the risk of escalation. of course, we can't rule out that iran would choose to get directly engaged some way. we have to prepare for every possible contingency. >> there is diplomatic outreach to iran right now? >> we have means of communicating privately with iran, and we've veiled ourselves of those means over the past

eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group on route to the persian gulf entered mediterranean today anotherdeterrence to iran and how to attack miles and miles of hardened hamas tunnels under gaza u.s. forces have trained in the past with the two specialized israeli units who focus on clearing tunnels idf released this rendering how they believe the tunnel network runs right under gaza's main shifa hospital efforts to clear tunnels could involve smoke and flooding. president bide spoke to prime minister benjamin netanyahu today, the saudi defense minister will be at the white house monday as concerns grow that this conflict between israel and hamas could spill over into the region forcing the u.s. and its allies to confront iran directly. jon. jon: prime minister netanyahu said israeli military will stay in gay gaza how long it takes to essentially eliminate hamas you've been at the pentagon when you hear words like that. what are you thinking about weeks, months, years? >> what i think when i hear things like that i think of the u.s. military and experience in afghanistan. and it took 20 y

be these carrier strike groups that are -- that have moved in to the eastern mediterranean, now moving in to the persian gulf. once they're prepositioned, the ground game will probably begin. it will start fairly eminently. >> martha: why do you say that? >> because to some extent, israel is waiting for our force posture to get in to place with our prepositioned assets, that being the carrier strike groups. in the event of an escalation, we need our assets there to respond to show you how serious it is, you know, i've been dealing with repealing the 20001 aumf. now we've been asked to look at including terror proxies of iran in an authorized use of military force. >> martha: so in terms of -- there's an estimate, 900,000 americans when you look across all of these countries, lebanon, you know, israel. our forces, we have about 3,500 between iraq and syria. is there any -- going to be any recommendation about moving those people, civilians out and potentially repositioning our own military? >> yes. in fact, i know on the israel side they've had to move and evacuate the northern part of israel in the event of

eisenhower, which is enroute to the persian gulf, entered the mediterranean today, another message of deterrence to tehran. the real problem facing the israelis right now is tow -- how to attack the miles and miles of hardened hamas tunnels under gaza. u.s. forces have trained with the two specialized israeli units who focus on clearing the tunnels. the idf relies leased this -- released this rendering of how they believe the tunnel network runs right underneath gauze -- gaza's main tunnels. president biden did speak with prime minister benjamin netanyahu today. he also spoke to egypt's president el sisi, the saudi defense minister will be at the white house monday as concerns grow that this conflict between israel and hamas could spill over into the region, forcing the u.s. and its allies to confront iran directly. aishah? aishah: yeah. working very hard to prevent that. jennifer griffin, thank you very much. mike: a shooting in tampa, florida, leaves 2 dead, 18 others wounded and a crowd celebrating halloween running for their lives. police say at least two shooters opened fire just

talked about are the strike groups, the eisenhower strike group moving through the mediterranean, heading to the gulf. kirby said several times in that briefing is that any threats to the u.s. interests in the region will not go unchallenged. is iran listening? >> what the united states means by that, one of the threats to u.s. interest is hezbollah entry into the war. hezbollah has what, ten or 20 times more military capability than hamas. would the united states hold iran accountable if hezbollah goes into the war? that's a big issue. what does it mean to hold iran accountable? would we sanction iran oil export, be prepared to use military force, if so, against what. it's not quite clear to me what that means, that kind of a blanket statement that we're prepared to use force to protect u.s. interests. that can mean anything and everything. >> richard haass, more to come, i hope you'll come back on the program. thank you so much, appreciate your time sir. >> sure. anytime. >>> the weight feeling like an eternity for the families of the hostages being held by hamas. nbc news spoke with one of them. a

deterrence efforts by the projection assets should says aircraft carriers, the east mediterranean and towards the gulf. these are to further strategic support for israel. israel will continue to stand firmly against terror threats in full cooperation, coordination with ourit long-standing ally. congress exhibited a display of support for israel and lawmakers on both sides ofel the aisle cae together to underscore their commitment to israel's security and its right to defend itself. this unity transcended partisan line as legislators recognized the gravity of the situation thatti we are now facing. despite the overwhelming show of support from government officials, the rising tide of anti-semitism in the united states is deeply concerning and underscores the critical importance of combating prejudice in all its forms. discrimination, hatred towards jewish communities not only threatens the well-being of jews worldwide who undermine the core principles of tolerance and inclusivity that the united states stands for. by raising awareness, educating the publicic and taking concrete actions to comect from t

we beefed up presence in the gulf area and eastern mediterranean to support national security interestst a growing threat. >> alexandria: here is former house speaker kevin mccarthy. >> what they want to do is wear out the iron dome and then send precision guided ones. provide it to them now. this is not about weakening hamas, this is about enjoying hamas. >> alexandria: pentagon is using their authority to move aid to israel. congress has not been needed yet. >> todd: alexandria hoff, thank you. bring in intel analyst brett velicovich. you heard alex get into detail about weapons we could be sending. what do israelis need from us to fight the fight they are about to fight. >> bret: thank you for having me. my heart goes out to your last guest. innocent people being taken hostage. this will backfire. there one day is over and israel is about to pummel them. we need to support them. the u.s. military strike force moving aircraft carrier into the mediterranean is a start and provides a message. u.s. need to make iter cloo, they plan to strike iran or hezbollah on larger scale if they ent

the uss eisenhower, the aircraft carrier strike group which is enroute to the persian gulf, entered the mediterraneanoday, another message of deterrence to tehran. so far the indications are that the leader of hezbollah in lebanon who oversees an arsenal of more than 150,000 missiles, some of them capable of hitting haifa and tel aviv, does not want to open a second front against israel, but it's not clear how he and his forces will respond if iran orderses hem to do so. the latest intelligence suggests he knows he could lose everything if he gets dragged into the hamas-israel conflict. he's doing just enough tit for tat with israel in the north to say we're still here. the real problem facing the us israelis is how to attack the miles and miles of hardened hamas tunnels under gaza. u.s. forces have trained with the two specialized israeli units who focus on clearing the tunnel. the i the df released this rend arerring of how they believe the network runs right under gaza's main hospital. the entrances and exits come out many residential homes in gaza. efforts to clear the tunnels could involve smoke

aircraft carrier uss eisenhower accompanied a study group into the mediterranean, took two weeks to cross the atlantic and sailing to the persian gulfrd carrier strike group has been in the mediterranean. the pentagon sent additional aircraft, missile defense systems, and 900 american troops to the region. those troops are part of the 2,000 troops from a couple years ago that secretary austin on standby for the region. jackie: is real exchanging fire with hezbollah to the north as they expand ground operations to the south and gaza, a lot report after the break. addt for asthma driven by eosinophils. it's designed to target and remove them and helps prevent asthma attacks. fasenra is not for sudden breathing problems or other eosinophilic conditions. allergic reactions may occur. don't stop your asthma treatments without talking with your doctor. tell your doctor if your asthma worsens. headache and sore throat may occur. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. get back to better breathing. ask your doctor about fasenra. hi, i'm william devane. did you know it took our founders 116 days to debate and draft the u.s. const

and against china. and how does this threaten china, that firstly, in the mediterranean sea ​​in the red sea on the persian gulfo bypass, transit through russia and so on, will create a threat to hydrocarbons that go from the persian gulf to china, including creating the threat of an increase in prices, which is critical for europe, which is beneficial for the americans, oil there costs 300, great, they are oil exporters, who will buy it at 300. but well, they bought gas for 2000. the principality of monaco, no, it doesn’t matter on their own, they will buy it buying gas means $2,000 and so on, and this will also have a very strong impact on china, as for the six, and it’s a really critical situation, it hits china first of all, first of all china, but for us we need to know that the role russia is growing, the fact that we supply hydrocarbons, we have contracted prices, yes, if the chinese want even more oil, there will be a different conversation, but we will save them, yes, that is, in this case, and... the ships are most likely located there to rescue chinese citizens who are in israel, that is, this has al

we added military in the gulf and eastern mediterranean and additional sanctions to the regime. we have never not taken our eye off iran or not considered how to pursue dealing with the kinds of things that they're doing in the region and beyond. and all this talk about, you know, pursuing diplomacy. we haven't worked on the nuclear deal for many months because it was clear that iran wasn't interested in negotiating in good faith. that's all -- we're constantly looking at iran policy to make sure we're doing the proper things to hold them accountable. >> dana: the president is not shy about calling out maga republicans as he calls them. in this scenario, in this situation you have people within the democratic party, members of congress who have said some very vile things despite all that we've just talked about in terms of the barbarism. in his remarks today will president biden call out those members of his own party for those remarks which should be absolutely rejected. >> without getting into too many specifics on the speech itself i think you will hear very clearly from pres

you've seen a very beefed up presence by the united states in the eastern mediterranean sea and in the gulfnd this message of deterrence. but they are also -- they do have to go beyond deterrence and say we got a real threat of force here, we're going to say that we want you to stop and to not even think about it, but they have to show that that threat is real because otherwise things really could with a ground offensive, i expect the attacks coming from these random other groups, thes. >> thank you both for being here this morning. appreciate your time. >>> up next, the scene of utter devastation and destruction in acapulco in the wake of the most powerful storm to ever hit mexico's pacific coast. look at these pictures. how survivors are now trying to find basic necessities. you are watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. i. what if we need to see a doctor away from home? ucard gets you in with medicare advantage's largest national provider network. how 'bout using it at the pharmacy? yes - your ucard is all you need. huh - that's easy! can it help keep my smile looking good? yep! u

president moved so rapidly and decisively to get an aircraft carrier into the eastern mediterranean, to get aircraft into the gulf> bret: this is interesting, you know, dichotomy here. they are talking about deterrence and being tough and trying to send a message to iran not to expand fighting to hezbollah or get involved at all yet when asked specifically about iran, white house officials and the president himself in that "60 minutes" interview could not get to iran is somehow behind it in any way, shape, or form. >> well, you are absolutely right, bret. they have been saying that repeatedly that the intelligence shows so far anyway, and we're obviously more than a week in now since the brutal attack that iran was not behind it. but, deterrence is at the top of mind for sure. and trying to prevent a wider regional war is in the interest of certainly of the united states and of the whole region from the u.s. point of view. it's a big risk. and whether iran was behind the specific hamas attack or not, we know that iran is supportive of what hamas did. and so that's something that the u.s. just does not want to see