to give teheran more access to the global financial system.is as "the wall street journal" reports the u.s. is repairing a so-called plan b to arm syrian rebels with heavy weapons. should the fragile cease-fire collapse. let's talk about all of this now with the director of the margaret thatcher center for freedom at the heritage foundation. good to see you. let's get right to it. so much to cover. >> talk about what led up to this decision. how much is this driven by the syrian refugee crisis to try to get the eu nations to talk with iran about cooperating to end the cease fire, or to prolong it and come to a solution? >> well, that's a good point, actually. i think the two key factors driving the eu's attempt to draw iran closer into this peace agreement with syria, i think the first factor, of course, is the refugee crisis. the migrants heading over to europe, from syria, iraq, and also from north africa. this is a major headache for the european union. especially countries like germany. germany's taken in that 1.3 million refugees over the

to do here in teheran.who love the market and invests are the same the world over. and you certainly get to know that. and there are seats where anybody can walk in and sit down and watch trading right on the screens. very reminiscent of the united states and the 70s. and financial news network came along. cnbc and we put the ticker on the screen. it wasn't necessary but that doesn't exist here. doesn't matter because people still go down there. the minute they learned who we were, they surrounded us. we had so many questions for each other. and one guy asked k you corner the market in the united states? and i said no we actually have rules to prevent that now. and he says we need that here too. lots of trading. from 9:00 in the morning. to later in the afternoon. the average pe is seven. there is a frontier market. if you want to invest in the auto sector for example. that's got a pe of 20. we interviewed one of the vice presidents of the teheran stock market and they are very oppositic that with changes n

embassy and held 52 american hostages for more than a year here in teheran.e ran into one of those students. she was a spokesperson. here she is back in 1979 given an interview to nbc's george lewis and fred francis. >> let us unite together and by persecuting the criminals of our time establish peace and calm in all the world. we peoples of o iran. you peoples of america and all peoples of the world let us unite hand in hand to establish justice. >> teheran mary is now obviously grown up. much older now. and she is now a vice president of the country in charge of the environment. we ran into her at an event. and i asked her if now she of all people would welcome american investment. >> are you open to american investment. >> yes. the country is open to american investment. and actually there have been american firms directly or indirectly coming to iran and looking for opportunities, for business opportunities. we look forward to working with all of the members of the international community. >> it is astound to be me to hear from someone who's been involved

how much have you heard in the last year, ma'am, about mining the waters out of teheran? no. i haven't either. and by the way, it's gone up as high as 39 nations now involved in the annual international anti-mine exercise. i think there's a way that -- to answer your question, just use that example and then you can apply it wherever so long as what we're doing is trying to stabilize the situation. >> we have time for one more question. yes, sir. right there. yep. >> yeah. mark thompson, "time" magazine. general, it's been more than three months since iran seized ten of our sailors and held them overnight. a lot of americans have forgotten, the navy's report still is not finished. but the sailors came home safe. iran, of course, used it for propaganda purposes. so who won in that clash? >> well, i don't know. i don't know. i don't think it's clear either way and i think the question's valid one because out of such small incidents comes an image of either stability or instability of compatibility for to be calling on, for example, our partners in the region to find a way to sha

reporting live today from teheran. she'll have a lot more throughout the day on cnbc.y the federal reserve wraps up a two day policy meeting. the decision is due 2:00 p.m. eastern time. central bank isn't ready to do anything but it could signal it is ready to resume tightening later this year. john, what is the likelihood that the fed does signal that they are inching towards a move towards higher interest rates? >> i think it is very likely sara because we're sort of meeting their three criteria. the inflation numbers continue to creep up. the global developments we've seen improvement in chinese economic data as well as some of the global manager purchasing ind diaz and we're also at full employment. and i think the fed has to go to a more balanced assessment. >> what about ar more hawkish? things have improved. oil, equities up. the dollar has softened. isn't the risk today more on the hawkish side. so at least they can keep the option of a june hike on the table. >> i think moving the more balanced assessment from where this were before will be viewed as a little

last month, teheran conducted several ballistic missile tests, which were marked with a statement in hebrew reading israel must be wiped off the earth. both the u.n. security council and the eu criticized the test, saying they were violations of the comprehensive nuclear agreement. on thursday, secretary of state john kerry said the international coalition was open to a new arrangement with iran to find a peaceful solution to the disagreement over the missile test. but iran's foreign minister said sunday the country's missile program is not up for negotiation. adding that if the u.s. was serious about the middle east, washington should stop supplying weapons to its allies saudi arabia and israel. >> if the u.s. government is serious about defense issues, it should decrease selling arms to the region that slaughters innocent people in yemen every day, or arms that the zionist regime officially uses against civilians. >> despite iran's recent missile test, the obama administration and its international partners showed no signs of willing to walk away from this nuclear agreement. but th

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and in the past couple of days, closed down its diplomatic mission in teheran.xerting a very strong influence and expectations on the allies in the region, wolf. >> they pay lip service to the iran nuclear deal but a you point out they're very angry about it. thanks very much. nic in riyadh, saudi arabia, for us. >>> up next, dozens dead and hundreds injured. we'll have a live report after this. nother anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works... ...in one week. with the... fastest retinol formula. ...to visibly reduce wrinkles. neutrogena®. r...on every plate - and we're about to keep it going. yeah, you've got one more week to try the largest variety of lobster dishes of the year... ...like lobster lover's dream... and new dueling lobster tails. this party can't last so hurry in. you're down with crestor. alright! now there's a way you can get crestor for $3. adding crestor, along with diet, lowers bad cholesterol. crestor is not for people with liver disease, or women who are nursing,pregnant, or may become

in teheran, iran. wherever you are watching from around the world, thank you for joining us. up first, presidential politics here in the united states. can donald trump and the republican national committee mend fences and heal the riffs in the party. we are looking at a closed door meeting between donald trump and reince priebus. donald trump has had a tumultuous relationship with leaders during the campaign. after yesterday's get together he tweeted "just had a nice meeting with reince priebus and the gop. looking forward to bringing the party together and it will happen." on fox news, he described the meeting this way. >> really a unity meeting. we are leading by a lot. we have far and away the most delegates. millions more than anybody else, than ted has or kasich has. they wanted to discuss, unity and i like discussing unity, too. >> gop source says much of the meeting was about the delegate process. trump leads the republican field with an estimated 739 delegates. he could fall short of the 1237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination on the first round of balloting.

teheran next year.they have a blank check, and complete away, and you know because he has a lot of associated -- he as a finance completely from the masses and these are very sure politician, so he really has a blank check on it and he can play either way. >> within the country, within kenya, how divisive has this case been? because there were many of the supporters said that there was simply no case to answer. others, of course who felt they were victims of the post election violence, felt that he had committed crimes against humanity? >> well, the initially when the case came out, there are six that have been suspected in 2007. and the case in the rights. so 50% of the mission says that this -- and a section of the society feels that this violence. so they have been very devicive. and you will recall that pause of the i.c.c.k., the deputy came together to form the coalition. actually they were able to get power many the last few elections because of the i.c.c. case. kenya is going to admit a new chapt

you tear up the cause by the roots, and the cause is radical islam, coming from mecca, coming from teheran up the roots of radical islam, these death cults are going to keep coming at us. >> how do you tear them up? >> we have to work with our allies in europe and russia. people that are targeted by radical islamists. especially our moderate arab allice like egypt, bahrain. we have to go after these radical clerics in saudi arabia and in iran.es like egypt, bahr. we have to go after these radical clerics in saudi arabia and in iran. this is the party line from islam. we've got to work with leaders to push back on the source of read call islam and that's officially coming from the saudis and the iranians. >> so we should just wipe off the board these few i guess insignificant advances that we made that we just reported on? >> i think that they're positive. i mean, we have to have a military solution against isis and we have to attack them economically, too. it's a good step that we blew up one of their largest blank banks. so we're making progress. but yet for every day the islamic state su

you walk into the teheran stock exchange, and right in the lobby and anybody can go in there and manyple sitting there watch watching the stocks trade on the screen, and it is reminiscent of the united states in the 1970s and maybe the 1980s when people would go to brokerage firm in their lunch hours to watch the ticker go by long before you could watch the ticker on cnbc. and the minute we got there and people realized that we were from a network that covered the stock market, we were surrounded by them, and they had so many questions, and we had questions for them, the valuations like and the favorite sector, and one guy asked, can you corner the u.s. market, and i said, no, rules you cannot corner it, and he said, we need rules like ta here in iran. you can see the seats rented boit the brokerage firms, and it is electronic trading. they have a market cap of $100 billion, and little more than 300 listed stocks and the daily volume is 150 million. next time you are in iran, you don't say ta you are a bull or the bear. here, thaw have lions and foxes. so if you are a bullish, you are

. >> tran: teheran is joining supporters across the street making it so that the minimum wage in california will be $15. the legislation went to the governor's office last week. california will become the first state to the highest it's ever been. the plan is to increase it gradually into 2022. all businesses will be playing the $15 mark. governor brown is signing the bill in about less than two hours. >> darya: the zero dacko coliseum is no more it is now just the old oakland coliseum. overstocked, opted out of the name. that details on the new renaming have not been detailed yet. they have not found anybody at. the severed his good giants are opening their season in milwaukee against the brewers. and it's an odd year so i guess we will win the world series right. that is above daughter is on the amount. then there will be home for the first home game this thursday and will be taking on the dodgers. >> tran: tech these out the impeachable broken to the make a wish foundation. they still under tenters scooter that was auctioned off for charity. this scooter was stolen. two men left the orga

if >>mark: these are follows from the clinton balanced the teheran church that said the vandalism hasmber on tuesday some of the side to bernard the pastor said the culprit left a note and spanish that said " all evil will be eradicated there is to john hurst lives in concord in connection with the incident. >>darya: we know the name of the man who died when on the back to the crash of the hot and cold interstate 80 that we covered live on the kron 4 morning news investigators say two to five- year old was killed in the crash and of off the big red of three of the cars early yesterday morning for other people involved in the crash and minor injuries a few hours before the crash an ambulance ran and a car that was a letdown for construction zone is police initially reported in a possible overdose they're waiting for the autopsy. >>darya: we are getting a better idea of how costly high-speed reprise it will affect the bay area the high-speed rail the stress from the dear don station in san jose to annul the bakersfield started and 20251 status complete those lines will be extended north

there's only one new foreign hotel an hour and a half outside of teheran. it's evolving at this point. they're hoping to bring in more foreign exchange by some of their most famous exports which now as a result of the lifting of the sanctions and the u.s. embargo, they expect to sell more. the u.s. embargo has been lifted on carpets, pistachioing and saffron. they sell carpets rug and rugs all over the world, and iran said they were on the verge of selling about a half a billion or carpets in 2010 in the first six months of the year before the sanctions went into place, but that really hurt sales. saffron is a huge export. 90% of the world's saffron comes from iran. it's the most expensive spice in the world. that's why they call it red gold. it can cost from 2,000 to $10,000 a pound, and then pistachios. a harvest of 230 tons. that was the largest in the world. larger than the united states which was the second largest in the world. and those are now going to compete with california pistachios because the majority of the pistachios in the u.s. come from ca

must cooperate with teheran through training to strengthen to protect against sabotage in the nuclear program. admiral rogers as the u.s. helped t-- >> i can't speak for the u.s. government as a whole. u.s. cyber command has not participated in any such effort. >> okay. thank you. >> i missed some of the discussion, i don't want to be needlessly repetitive but want to go to an interchange you had with the chair in opening questions. i met recently with a senior military leader that tried to basically summer rise his sense of things and said we have o plans but no strategy. i've been thinking about that. i think in your back and forth with the chair you talked about and i think others may have asked you about this, this notion we're kind of reacting case by case to cyber attacks and kind of deciding in each instance what we want to do but the development of a broader doctrine, whether it's, you know, what will a detoerrence policy be in terms of triggering and collective defense obligation, that we're assessing those things but kind of not at the end point. could you talk to us about t

deal struck between a government under siege in washington and another government under siege in teheran. in each case being beaten up by people who didn't want to see an agreement at all an in each case beaten up by people who saw the agreement as the precursor of a wider political agreement that they would detest. and i imagine that at the time the agreed framework was negotiated there were suspicions in pyongyang that the united states didn't really mean what this was saying, that you meant what you were saying but that you didn't really have the backing of u.s. political system. so, don't we need to evaluate the possibilities of reaching agreements and a possibilities that the agreements will stick in terms of a multiplicity of actors in each of the countries sear concerned? >> university of maryland. i have a question for professor gallucci. you said earlier that north korea may have been willing to give up its nuclear programs had there been a political settlement. can you elaborate on what you mean by that? do you mean something outside of the literal deal? thank you. >> okay? >>

deal struck between a government under siege in washington and another government under siege in teheran. in each case being beaten up by people who didn't want to see an agreement at all and in each case beaten up by people who saw the agreement as the precursor of a wider political agreement that they would detest. and i imagine that at the time the agreed framework was negotiated there were suspicions in pyongyang that the united states didn't really mean what it was saying. you meant what you were saying but that you didn't really have the backing of u.s. political system. so, don't we need to evaluate the possibilities of reaching agreements and a possibilities that the agreements will stick in terms of a multiplicity of actors in each of the countries concerned? >> university of maryland. i have a question for professor gallucci. you said earlier that north korea may have been willing to give up its nuclear programs had there been a political settlement. can you elaborate on what you mean by that? do you mean something outside of the literal deal? thank you. >> okay? >> yep. >> oka