iran has dismissed those allegations calling them fabricated let's talk to former cia officer philip giraldi now is on the line washington for the very good evening if we're to believe what is being leaked about this report iran is going to have some serious questions to answer isn't it but take it out on again who really benefits from portraying iran once again as the bad guy. well i think in this case it's quite clear that it's the united states and israel that are basically trying to turn the heat up on iran and i would be very skeptical about this report that's coming out from the international atomic energy agency because the i.a.e.a. doesn't really have any intelligence capabilities of its own and if it's relying on reports that are coming from other people i would rather suspect those reports are coming from the united states and israel so it's it's you know an endless cycle of trying to prove the unprovable in this case does iran have a bomb you know does a rama have the intention to get a bomb no one knows that except the iranian leadership so i think this is a this is again this is

as cable perspective on how the situation might develop from now on talk to former cia officer philip giraldi for that good evening thanks but on the program it was such a crucial mistake the strikes described as lasting for two hours and it continued after pakistani commanders pleaded with nato to stop it's being reported how could this have happened indeed how could it be described as a mistake. well nato for its part is claiming that its forces were fired on and afghan forces were fired on from the pakistani side of the border so there are two sides to this issue but i think that in weighing up all the media coverage that we've seen up to now it's pretty clear that this was a massive huge enormous mistake because this has unleashed forces inside pakistan that that people certainly in nato would have wished to keep and we will talk about . his reputation just a second but let's look at the immediate ramifications now because done saying it's going to permanently shut down that supply route to afghanistan how will that affect nato operations indeed tennis is it go now that that's happened. w

former cia officer philip giraldi says that the i.a.e.a. report is based on the u.s. and israel israel's allegation as the two countries try to cast a shadow on iran. so it's quite clear that it's the united states and israel that are basically trying to turn the heat up on iran and i would be very skeptical about this report that's coming out from the international atomic energy agency because the i.a.e.a. doesn't really have any intelligence capabilities of its own and if it's relying on reports that are coming from other people i would rather suspect those reports are coming from the united states and israel so it's a it's a it's you know an endless cycle of trying to prove the unprovable in this case does iran have a bomb you know does iran have the intention to get a bomb no one knows that except the iranian leadership so i think this is a this is again this is a whole situation that's being overhyped in an effort to get some political leverage out of it there are many countries in the middle east egypt saudi arabia turkey that have what they describe as breakout