latest attack while to get some answers i spoke to jamal of the policy director for the national iranian american council take a listen. the united states has actually come out very forcefully and said we are not behind this secretary clinton yesterday categorically denied that the u.s. had any involvement in this and i think that that's very telling this assassination comes just weeks before planned to go she asians between iran and the u.s. the p five plus one and so. while there's a lot of informed speculation nobody knows quite who was behind this but i think that what the consensus is that whoever was behind this is less interested in setting back you grans nuclear program and more interested in setting back possible ratcheting down of tensions between iran and the united states and you know this is something that the g.o.p. candidates would celebrate presumably especially at let's take a listen to some of the rhetoric coming from the very talented but take a listen. well there have been scientists. in russia and in iran there have been computer viruses there have been problems at their facility i h

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on tell me said some light on all of this earlier i spoke to research director at the national iranian american council raise a mirage and i asked reza whether he thought iran is in fact in the process of building a nuclear weapon here's what he had to say. well i think it's a court to consider what the consensus view or the consensus thoughts of the u.s. government is and in two thousand and seven and again in two thousand and eleven the national intelligence estimate of the united states of america which is a consensus document representing twenty seven intelligence agencies said that from two thousand and three onward they have a high level of confidence that the iranian government had abandoned its intent and its process towards developing a nuclear weapons capability then why is it that we're constantly hearing this talk of you know they're actually not and even if they let the inspectors in to the places that we know about how do we know there's not other places then we hear the crazy rhetoric on the campaign trail from a lot of these republican candidates bomb iran bomb iran they want to bomb us

trita parsi, the founder and president of the national iranian american council and his new book is titled "a single roll of the dice -- obama's the plot -- obama's diplomacy with iran." thank you for joining us. how would you characterize the relationship between the united states and iran? >> it is an institutionalized committee. >> what does that mean? >> the enmity, the institutionalized part is that we have seen over the last three decades big portions within both governments that have created a self interest in retaining that amity. careers that have been advanced through deepening this amity. this is not something that can easily be broken up. there are too many people on both sides in both countries benefiting from the continuation of amity. >> are we talking about antagonize meant between the two? >> we have some limited pockets in which the two have managed to collaborate but nothing that has been able to turn the strategic dynamic of their relationship around into something more positive. both parties continue to see how they can undermine each other. i'm of the view that the ob

of the independent lobby group the national iranian american council says a lack of diplomatic ties between the two countries is increasing the danger of a hostile outcome closing the strait of hormuz for the iranian government would be the equivalent of cutting off its nose to spite its face its heavily heavily reliant on its on its income.

> for more on the aim of the sanctions and the possible impact, the president of the national iranian-american councillet's start with the threat of closing the strait of hormuz. do you think iran would do that? >> if the iranians cannot sell their own oil, that may be feasible calculation. it would not be costly for them because they would not be losing much. at this stage, the iranians are making these warnings to get oil prices to go up further to make it as costly as possible for the youth to pursue this policy. -- for the e.u. to pursue this policy. >> at what point will the chinese say they do not like what they're doing? >> i think the chinese will say a lot to the iranians and the west. their discontent with the actions -- they are discontent with the actions taken. they're talking about sanctions rather than actual negotiations. i do not think the chinese are happy with it. their concern is to make sure they have access to oil from the region to bring millions of their own people out of poverty. >> do you think there is a prospect that these sanctions will make a difference when it comes to t

warships being sent to the area and resume the independent group the national iranian american council says a lack of diplomatic ties between the two countries is increasing the danger of a hostile outcome. iran said that if an oil embargo is imposed against iran and the iranian livelihood is economy is threatened then iran would take.

warships being sent to the area reza marashi all the independent go to group the national iranian american council says a lack of diplomatic ties between the two countries is increasing the danger of a hostile outcome. in the strait of hormuz where the iranian government would be the equivalent of cotton of its knows this but it's very it's heavily heavily reliant on its on its income from oil exports the vast majority of which go through the strait.

and rb of the national iranian american council in washington claims the actions of american israel indicate that they are preparing for war against iran which could descend into a massive middle east conflict. we're getting closer and closer to war with iran. anybody who argues that this kind of extraordinary confluence of events of events planned exercises by the u.s. and israel the exercises that iran was doing in the in the persian gulf we have sanctions in place with no diplomacy the only way that that ends is through confrontation back in september the u.s. actually provided israel with an advanced radar and for the first time actually deployed. permanently deployed u.s. troops to israel that was a small contingent of couple hundred troops what we see now though is this much larger exercise not unprecedented but definitely something that is going to have an impact right now as we see this sort of tit for tat in confrontation between the u.s. and iran the idea is that we're there to be a massive war in the middle east presumably with iran that we would be ready to have a set of command

the sanctions it really serve well for some insight i spoke to policy director for the national iranian american council. here is his take. we'll see what effect they have europe is the second largest buyer of iranian oil so it's going to have some impact but. the fact the matter is there's a set amount of oil that's available even though there's a spare capacity that's a little bit more than the amount that iran puts into the market if you stop buying from iran and go to other sellers of oil they're going to be plenty of other countries who are going to come into iran to buy oil that's just how the market goes you're never really i don't think going to be able to cut off iranian oil completely. i think what the people who support these sanctions what they've said is that this is going to force the ron to sell its oil at a discounted rate and make less money off of it so the twenty per said it would have an effect i mean just think about it in business terms if you lose twenty percent of your profits yeah it's going to hurt you but i mean what it cripple iran and the way that the west wants to have that

for weighing in as always a pleasure to have you here that was policy director for the national iranian american council jamal abdi. well as we just discussed. has already bought iranian oil using gold instead of u.s. dollars and this is extremely significant because every year india actually spends twelve billion u.s. dollars on iranian oil and now actually beijing is also saying that it might want to jump on board with new delhi and also look into some sort of agreement with iran to continue to get oil new delhi and beijing actually account for forty percent of the imports of iranian oil the e.u. only counts for twenty percent obviously we've been talking about all week about this oil embargo that the e.u. announced on monday that they're hoping to roll out and put into place by chalabi first and obviously if new delhi and beijing find a way to continue trading with iran using gold instead of u.s. dollars this would severely hurt what the european union in washington is trying to do russia has also said that it wants to continue trading with the run using domestic currencies instead of u.s. dollars ob

since said it's ready for fresh talks reza marashi of the independent lobby group the national iranian american council says the lack of diplomatic relations between iran and the united states increases the risk of a dangerous outcome. closing the strait of hormuz for the iranian government would be the equivalent of cutting off its nose to spite its face its heavily heavily reliant on its on its income from oil exports the vast majority of which go through the strait that being said just because it's something that the iranian government doesn't want to do it doesn't necessarily mean that it's something that it's won't do if pressure increases to the point where iran is backed into a corner or two governments that haven't been communicating for over three decades and when you don't have direct channels of communication that increases the likelihood of miscalculations and misperceptions and it reinforces a cycle of escalation in conflict and it increases the likelihood that you can you can take actions that might not be in the court and even with your own interests and rather than governments controlli

from the national iranian american council all things isolating iran was the main purpose of the killing the fact the matter is that hardliners on all sides who don't want to see any kind of negotiated resolution who don't want to see iran brought some way in. the fold and want to see this tension escalate want to keep iran sort of outside of the security status quo in the middle east are supportive of these actions and that's why you have speculation that perhaps israel was behind this perhaps the iranian. terrorist organization that is dedicated to overthrowing the iranian government and preventing between the u.s. and iran are behind this or you've been happy who think that perhaps hardliners in the iranian government were behind this because they're more interested in preventing any kind of talks and be able to create a security environment within iran where they can crack down on on dissidents and use the threat of an external you know a war with the united states or external threats to actually consolidate their control so in every instance all the speculation falls on those who wa

rule ships being sent to the area and resume russia of the independent lobby group the national iranian american council says a lack of diplomatic ties between the two countries is increasing the danger of a hostile outcome. iran said that if an oil embargo is imposed against iran and the iranian livelihood is economy is threatened then iran would take. considerable measures to respond to that so that is not a provocation but in terms of real provocation i think that what is provocative is the united states sending these warships thousands of miles of it from his homeland into the persian gulf and also reaching wars rounding iran with wars in iraq and afghanistan military bases all around iran that is provocative and iran is trying to defend his national sovereignty and territorial integrity. to recovering from the brutal civil war that toppled colonel gadhafi last year while there are signs of stability tensions are rising between the tribes and milters that at times that together against the regime marks on the boy go file this report from tripoli early in the week. flying high but still running low a

interesting jamal thank you once again for coming on the show that was policy director for the national iranian american council. well the new york times in hot water again this time for misquoting a report that details our runs nuclear program the times reported as fact that there is proof that iran is developing nuclear weapons here is a quote. from the newspaper that's stirring controversy or reads quote the threats from iran and both at the west and israel combined with a recent assessment by the international atomic energy agency that iran's nuclear program has a military objective is becoming an important issue in the american presidential campaign now the problem with that is that the i.a.e.a. were e.a. report does not make that accusation nowhere does it confirm that iran's nuclear program has a military objective so what is behind this journalism blunder and is there more behind this so-called mistake what else they answer that i spoke to robert naiman policy director for just foreign policy here is his take. thank you well i think it's very telling and it's clearly not just simply a mistake if you wer

for weighing in as always a pleasure to have you here that was policy director for the national iranian american council jim all of these. and as we just discussed not every country wants a player by the sanctions on iranian oil india has reportedly agreed to pay to ron in gold for the oil and buy isn't a move aimed at protecting value from u.s. sanctions targeting countries who trade with iran and china another buyer of iranian oil may follow india's lead artie's priya sridhar has more from india. india actually has already bought iranian oil using gold instead of u.s. dollars and this is extremely significant because every year india actually spends twelve billion u.s. dollars on iranian oil and now actually beijing is also saying that it might want to jump on board with the new delhi and also look into some sort of agreement with iran to continue to get oil new delhi and beijing actually account for forty percent of the imports of iranian oil the e.u. only counts for twenty percent obviously we've been talking about all week about this oil embargo that the e.u. announced on monday that they're hoping

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interesting jamal thank you once again for coming on the show that was policy director for the national iranian american council jamal. well tension between the u.s. and iran is being ratcheted up on what seems like a daily basis the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton added fuel to the fire calling terrans recent threats to close a vital oil transit route in the gulf a provocation artie's guy and chicken looks at whether a war of words could translate to an all out war. the cold run of tension between iran and the west is simmering. seems the slightest thing chris of heat could make it boil over into an all out confrontation. where we'll be that boiling point the point of no return we're getting closer and closer to war with iran the iranians are playing with fire problems in a crisis if you get where any small thing can really set it off and it doesn't quote washington that the international nuclear watchdog these i'm sorry closely monitoring iran's nuclear activities are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon no but we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability and that's what concerns us

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with more on this we're joined now by the president of the national iranian/american council and author of a new book. he joins us from our washington bureau. good to see you. i haven't seen you in a while. >> good to see you, don. >> so who is behind this campaign to destabilize the regime? >> well, first of all, we don't know if the intent is to destabilize the regime, whether it is to set back the nuclear program, or whether it is actually to escalate things uncontrollably into an actual war but it seems to have emerged a consensus now that the most likely candidate being behind at least assassinations is israel. we don't have any evidence. there's not been any evidence out in the public, but most analysts that you speak to right now view israel as being the prime candidate for this because it's the only country that seems to have the motive, has the capability, and has the history of having successfully done assassinations of this kind. >> trita, how far are they willing to go to bring down iran's government? >> well, from the israeli side we have to remember there is a significant