joined now by side mohammad marandi his politics professor from the university of tehran and a very good evening to. the world leaders seem to be trying to link the nuclear deal with iran's actions in the middle east why. oh western leaders from the beginning. their problem with iran really wasn't the nuclear program it was iran's independent foreign policy just recently pompei o when he was the head of the cia before he became the head of the state department he admitted that before that j c p o a the iranians were not moving towards a nuclear weapon he was using this argument to say that if the united states exits the agreement iran won't go and try to create a nuclear weapon so this was an admission by the head of the cia that the whole narrative that the americans and their allies have been promoting for over a decade was all dishonest and that iran was telling the truth all along and now the reason why these countries are. trying to. limit iran with regards to its regional role or with regard to its. missile defense capability is more to do again with iran's political independence t

politics professor saeed mohammad marandi things any backtracking on the iran deal will diminish merkel and micron's credibility in the eyes of tehran. he did more damage to themselves than to anyone else because iranians are looking at the actions and the statements of these european leaders and when they see that they flip flop so easily and they try to appease the us presidents so readily then in future i don't think that the iranians will ever take the germans or the french seriously again they'll know that in future they simply are useless a negotiated with because they have no influence and they are willing to bow down to the us president if he demands for them to do so so more than anything else they damage themselves with the iran is not going to allow any changes to take place in the nuclear agreement when when the nuclear agreement was a was being discussed many in iran were critical of it they were saying that iran has given too many concessions but ultimately when the iranians decided to sign those critics and those who supported the agreement they all agreed that you're on

by the french and german leaders with politics professor from the university of tehran side mohammad marandi who believes that such a move will diminish the credibility of crown in the eyes of iran. they did more damage to themselves then twenty one else because iranians are looking at the actions and the statements of these european leaders and when they see that they flip flop so easily and they try to appease the us presidents so readily then he tried don't think that the iranians will ever take the germans or the french seriously again still know that and in in future they simply are useless to negotiate with because they have no influence and they are willing to bow down to the us presidents if he demands them to do so so more than anything else they damage themselves because iran is not going to allow any changes to take place in the nuclear agreement when when the nuclear agreement was a was being discussed many in iran were critical of it they were saying that iran has given too many confessions but ultimately when the iranians decided to sign those critics and those who supported th

doha juan cole a visiting festa at the center for gulf studies at cattle university from tehran mohammad marandi head of the north american studies graduate program at the university of tehran and from beirut via skype joseph to chichen middle east analyst and senior fellow at the king faisal center for islamic studies if i would welcome to all of you mark first of all let's get an idea of iran's reaction to this very clear message that we're hearing from pompei are that iran destabilize is the region that is the main threats and needs to be contained i think the iranians would respond by saying that the israeli regime is subjugating the palestinians it is murdering people on the border of gaza and the saudis on the other hand and the israelis are constantly bombing syria against international law and the saudis they kidnap prime ministers they invade countries like yemen they invade bad reign and keep the dictator in power they commit bring about as they brought about a siege against the tab and they've spread extremism to syria and iraq and of course they haven't succeeded in untag in izing tu

a new iran nuclear deal for more on that story let's go to tehran i'm joined by analyst site mohammad marandi said the donor views on the iran deal on this some talk about the possibility of a new deal but the iranian president has shot that down what it doesn't really have to say. well you said the obvious is under no circumstances will there be a new deal. the iranians meet many sacrifices in the eyes of many iranians actually it's a very bad deal the iranians to many concessions say many iranians and many others are are now actually criticizing the government and saying that you know we told you so so it's not as if the americans are the only ones for complaining but iran despite those who are pro and against the deal debating once there was an agreement everyone in it and iran agreed that we must abide by our commitments and a nuclear deal therefore is something the iran expects everyone to abide by even as a party not to you know look or did speak strongly in favor of keeping the deal agreed on in two thousand and fifteen but he said one could add new dimensions to it all pillows as he c

side mohammad marandi politics professor at the university of toronto thank you for sharing your expertise with us on our key international we appreciate it. well number of republican senators have lashed out at trump's decision to launch strikes saying he should have consulted congress first i haven't read france's or britain's constitution but i wrote i was nowhere in it is presidential authority to strike syria the president needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the constitution. strikes are an act of war atrocities in syria cannot justify departure from constitution which vests in congress power to commence war well trungpa may seem to have rushed in but it wasn't always like that back in two thousand and thirteen he was highly critical of then president barack obama's approach on syria saying bad things will happen if washington launches an attack after becoming president however trump dropped tomahawk missiles on syria but that could be a possible explanation for the sea change. bunny brown the flag effect and increased popular support of the president

has got this live in now with our guest five mohammad marandi politics professor at the university of to run mr marandi thank you for joining us on r.t. international i think of the big question on a lot of people's minds that is that why the lord strength now was the other didn't see had there hasn't been an investigation into alleged chemical weapons attack last weekend and as russia says they come in the very moment then what was the you know an inkling of a chance of peace in syria. it's quite obvious the united states and its allies whenever they see that the syrian government is making progress on the ground they accuse it of carrying chemical weapons in two thousand and thirteen that was the case last year that was the case and more recently this was obviously a false five operation if you recall russian intelligence the iranian intelligence syrian intelligence have for weeks been predicting that there will be a false flag operation and we know that the area in which it was carried out was held by. the militants that were closest to saudi arabia while hobby militants merican th