teheran's behavr reminds us of what a world without rules looks like.dictable and dangerous, a world where becomes more expensive. i welcome your tireless diplomacy, secretary blinken, to prevent further escalation of the war in gaza. your efforts to alleviate human suffering and your hard work toward a peaceful resolution. russia's war against ukraine is nearing the two-year mark. a russian victory would embolden iran, north korea and china. that matters for european's security and it matters for america's security. so supporting ukraine serves u.s. interests. for a tiny fraction of annual defense spending, the united states has helped ukraine destroy a major part of russia's combat capacity. without facing a single american soldier in harm's way -- placing a single american soldier in harm's way. i welcome the clear commitment from president biden and you to sustain u.s. support to ukraine and to work with congress to achieve that. as you said, other allies are also stepping up. in fact, european nato allies and khan provide in term -- nada provide in

all roads lead back to teheran. instead of playing with the houthis, hezbollah and hamas, i'm telling you, i'm talking to soldiers downrange right now. we're bombing empty warehouses in the middle of the night so that this administration can check the box and say they are doing something. they are doing nothing that's meaningful, and now we have more gold star families because of it and it's infuriating. >> sean: it is infuriating. at some point when they attack our troops nearly 200 times, when do we come to the conclusion that the only thing that they are going to listen to is force? now, add one other component to this, and that would be, i keep reading, and i keep talking to sources, and they keep telling me that-- iran is a lot closer nuclear capability. i can't imagine a world where that's married to nuclear weapons. i don't think mutual destruction would deter them. >> no, that's the headline. this situation gets that much more dangerous and difficult if teheran has nuclear weapons. and that's laid at the fee

until we dry up the cash in teheran, they're going to continue to pump into their proxies and not onlyies but remember, they're pumping drones, short range missiles and other things to russia. that would also, you know, supporting ukraine to fight against them and the root of all this evil in the middle east is in teheran. there's a number of options, we don't have to bomb these oil fields. we could actually enforce the sanctions. we could hit the terminals through cyber means. and what i'd also like to see is the actual iranian operatives running iraq and syria and yemen that are aiding and abetting and resupplying these various terrorist groups, we could take them off the battlefield like trump did with soleimani and his successor is also running around the middle east attacking americans and israelis and causing mayhem. stuart: if we attack oil facilities or in some way restrict their oil out. gas prices many america. that's not good for biden in an election year. >> well, it wouldn't except that biden just shut down the exports of american gas, which by the way for example i was ju

behind them frankfully and how these actors like putin and moscow and mullahs and mag mullahs in teheran how they operate. they don't understand where we are and what our red lines are and we continue to lose them in this mirage of diplomatic speech and understand english and only understand their intense backed up force and lea leaking and geg us in their minds in the white house is a way to mitigate them with response and understanding and causing escalation cycles to accelerate and go up and not down. down. elizabeth: lawmakers are also contrasting what's going on now with four years ago when under the trump white house u.s. is signing piece accords with israel, bahrain and they're all over the map. they're os tensively -- awes os tensively going for that . >> u.s. forces stopped presence in iraq and it's stable and emphasize for now and all that can change. the middle east region is quieter today than it it has been in two decades. >> we've not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we're facing now across the row john since at least 1973 and arguably even before that. >> mr. presi

joining us now is nbc news foreign correspondent ali arouzi in teheran. who is iran blaming?aty, they are blaming israel and the united states, and they were pretty quick to blame them. while we were hearing from iranian officials that there's an ongoing investigation, all of a sudden the senior member of parliament was the first person to come out and say that he's still waiting for more information, but this attack bears all the hallmarks of operation of israeli intelligence. the former head of the irg was quick to blame israel, saying israel would pay a heavy price for this. then iran's president came out in a speech blaming israel and the united states, saying israel and u.s. operatives were behind these attacks, and the iran supreme leader made the final speech of the evening saying israel was going to pay a very serious price for these attacks. but i have to say, katy, i have been reporting from iran your over a decade now, decade and a half, we have seen a lot of israeli attacks and assassinations in iran, and they have always been very targeted attacks. they have been

provinces of east azarbaijan, west azarbaijan, zanjan kurdistan, hamedan, kermanshah, ghazvin , alborz, teheran mazandaran, golestan , towards north khorasan, it will start on wednesday afternoon. it also affects the northeast of the country and brings snow and rain in these areas, while in the southern areas it mainly rains along with thunder and lightning in the northern areas. we will also have snow. due to the rains , we expect road traffic disruption to be we will have slippery roads, snowfall in the highlands, and a blizzard is predicted for the highlands, and along with the rains, during the last days of the week, the temperature will drop in the northern and western parts of our country. for tehran, in the coming hours, the sky will be clear to a little cloudy, sometimes windy. we will expect that the weather will be calm and stable for tehran on monday, tuesday, and tuesday. we expect that during the period of monday and tuesday , we will have calm weather in some parts of tehran province, but from wednesday afternoon, it will increase and rain again. i see it is also expected in parts

and esteghlal's preparatory meeting with teheran blue textiles in the third preparatory game before the start of the second half of the season , shun will face nasaji esteghlal on friday , and they had previously played two preparatory games against aliv aslamer and atrak bejnor. tomorrow, the premier league of futsal will continue with the games of the 22nd week, and maybe it will be determined. first, in sari, the representative of mazandaran, hafez mire, won't get a result in this game. he is the first team to fall in tehran, safir will face alvand crop. the tehrani team has not won in their last five games against crop , they have won two of their last three games and won one draw. we hope that we can get rid of these bad lucks that the ambassador team has in these few weeks, you have been struggling to let go of goherzmin. resist like hafez, any result but relegation is inevitable, we have a tough game because the alborz team is at the bottom of the table, but its place is not here at all. the team is very good , it has a good staff. in the next game, the provinces are playing agai

>> well, i think, ain, there's this gray zone where, again, as you see out of teheran, officials trying to claim deniability, you know, one of the questions that we've got to get answered and this has been in the public reporting, so i can make a brief comment. did this drone in coming behind an american drone, was that by luck and consequently our anti-drone capabilities didn't take it out or was this a new tactic by this group. even if it wasn't a new tactic, does the fact that this is now into the public domain by some of the reporting mean that it's something we have to guard against going forward. >> there's reporting flt military times and "wall street journal" that one of the reasons the drone was not shot down is because it might have been mistaken for an american drone. as you're saying, there was an american drone in the air, and this could potentially be a new tactic. that's a scary tactic. that would mean a recalibration of quite a few things in the region. >> we are seeing realtime in the middle east and in certain ways, more in the ukraine, russia conflict, a complete rede

resistencia a y los houthis de yemen no existirian si no fuera por el apoyo y el financiamiento de teherancristina, muchas gracias por este reporte. >> reporte. >> por otra parte, el secretario general de la otan, jens stoltenberg advirtio al congreso de estados unidos que una victoria de rusia en la guerra frente a ucrania haria al mundo mas inseguro. >> inversion en nuestra propia seguridad. >> la mayoria republicana en la camara de representantes aun no da luz verde a un paquete de 61 mil millones de dolares en armas para ucrania esta supeditado a un acuerdo migratorio por la crisis en la frontera. >> se trata de un proyecto bipartidista en el senado que aunque aun no se revela el texto completo, si se sabe que entre otras cosas busca reducir el numero de migrantes que mediante el parol permanecen en este pais. >> ademas aceleraria los procesos de asilo y le daria una nueva autoridad al presidente que permitiria cerrar la frontera si los cruces irregulares se disparan a ciertos niveles. >> tiene que al final del dia llevar una importante colaboracion con con mexico y que no solamente es

that's cost live to political on the list to he does savvy in teheran it just so he does good to have you join me right now. do you believe that the usa you wasn't involved in those explosions? and that is considering the fact that they 2 plays german, there come a ration of a deceased general who has confirmed to have been killed by the united states a while to answer that question, i think we should just take a look at the history and see this wide and long glance, the list of terrorist attacks that the united states has conducted and these really have been conducting. so i think the twins last that took place at the 4th anniversary of june or of so the mind is as, as a nation is a terrorist attack, which as you mentioned, caused hundreds of people killed pending geared. i just, i get to give you a picture of the context it took place and they after him boss talk to some cubes by his release. it took place almost 2 weeks after uranian senior advisor and syria associates browsing savvy was estimated again by his release. it took place 3 weeks as while while 3 weeks. the goal as cyber

now let's trust live to a political analyst to heat, a savvy in teheran, joining us right now to heat. i'm happy to have you join you right now. today marks a 100 days of the conflict that erupt between ease roll and him as what are your thoughts on where this is heading so far? well actually, as we saw in the report of you just showed up. and as we are following the story in the past 100 days, the world has been watching and unbelievably horrible, lots shipped by these really forces backed by the united states and their allies. and this systematic war against humanity has laid the air to tools about the barbaric nature of these things. the routine of wild things are getting more and more clear. iran and its allies are now no longer alone in the attempts to support palestinians cause, and the fire to gaze is really occupation you see in different countries in the western countries in particular that there are so many protest against this inhuman savage behavior of these really and iran is just conducting a, a sort of inclusive course of action in order to go against this aggressive be

installations and iraq and so on, and so trying to push back teheran without triggering a conflict, and that is difficult to do. >> picking up on what the general was talking about, i left out syria, because october and stationed in iraq and syria here, and again, we saw this u.s. response drone attack on the pro iranian militia leader and how would you assess the u.s. response to these attacks? >> well, first of all, the u.s. is doing a half decent job of responding to the attacks, but i am baffled by the attack in iraq. if we are trying to prevent the conflict there, and protect our solders and diplomats, that is the worst way to go around it. we slapped iraq in the face, by attacking a pro-iranian militia group on the day that they were celebrating, mourning the loss of soleimani two years prior. so, again, if we are trying to avoid war, i don't understand how we are trying to provoke more complications. now we have the government of restaurant to be thrown out, then the entire relationship with isis and syria ends. and then we are bringing isis back into the fight. >> you can see ho

air strikes against militants in iran come if retaliation after teheran launched similar attacks theay before to the markets traders wind back bets after strong u.s. retail sales cast doubt on a dovish fed in tornad. we hear from c.e.o.s this hour. the third quarter sales in terms of numbers 5.6 billion. when you take into the currency effect a massive beat on the third quarter sales numbers, the european market opens in about two hours. futures are something to watch in context of geo politics. you're not seeing the major selloff. the major conviction to the downside. you are seeing a lot of buying in as well. investors sitting on the sidelines. stoxx 50 futures unchanged. slight underperformance to have ftse 100. the asset story gets a little bit more interesting here. the geo-political story is getting priced to some extent. you are seeing a bump in brent crude here. monetary policy is where it gets tricky. you have to price in what the fed and ecb are thinking. that is where the 10-year yield really matters. 4018 what we're looking at. down by one basis point in the asian trading

it has summoned the iranian charge d'affaires, and lodged a protest at the foreign ministry in teherantwo (pres)live now to our pakistan correspondent caroline davies in islamabad. we have had confirmation here from officials in pakistan saying it's a very serious breach of their airspace, talking about this would have serious consequences and is an explosion that happened in the area of baluchistan, a province in southwest pakistan, it's of baluchistan, a province in southwest pakistan, its largest province, least populated, and borders iran. according to iranian state media, there was a report earlier, if you are ago, saying that iran had attacked militants, using missiles and a drone strike, and they said that this had happened in this area. now, at the moment we had seen that those reports, according to the news agency afp, have since been removed, but we also had this confirmation from pakistan saying that there's been a death so far of two children and three injured in what it is referred to as a violation of its airspace. crucially, to follow the story over the next two hours an

organizations that are attacking us from gaza, from lebanon, from yemen, from the red sea because it's all teheran to. we have to push back against iran, china, and russia, which is another reason that ukraine is in our interest. we are degrading one of our greatest geopolitical adversaries without spilling american blood. that's huge. stuart: it is, laurie r. it's a complicated situation. we value your input. come back and see us again soon. laura baldman. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: bye. the largest teacher union in the country putting major pressure on the president to call for a seize fire in gaza. ashley, the teacher's union want as se ceasefire? the teacher's union is pro hamas; is that right? ashley: yes and a growing number of teachers are urging the national teachers association, the largest union in the country, to take back its support for biden till there's a ceasefire in gaza. teachers also calling for the u.s. to stop sending military funding, equipment, and intelligence to israel and to also commit to a fair due process for asylum seekers and refugees. so far 19 local state and reini

the president's watch and the resources about president trump seeing this very clearly and seeing teheran with the resources and not having the money to pay all the proxy groups and the proxy groups are miserable under president trump and back in the golden age and you've got billions and billions of dollars throeing to hamas, to the houthi and to hezbollah and seeing what they do with that and this is the card and basic math and i think it would be great if president biden would come up with a robust policy and unfortunately they've lost the confidence of the american people and letting the congressman speak to this and i can't imagine there's a lot of confidence in congress about what his response is going to be. elizabeth: u.s. forces attacked 165 times in the middle east since mid october and 66 before this catastrophic attack and 13 troops killed in the chaotic afghanistan and what do you say? de-vent right thinking and they should be here with democrats on the hill and this president has been asleep at the wheel. he's missing in action and at least the president didn't know where he

of war and hitting multiple military bases at the same time and we're taking down headquarters in teheran we're destroying their entire infrastructure, something you saw us do in baghdad. that would be an act of war and this would be a limit thed attack and central command overseas and there's a targeted list of what to do here. my bias is the irgc force is overseeing and directing these proxies and i would go after their training base. irgc training base, some of their military bases or even their headquarters and focus it that way because that's in the chain of command of what is happening but can you go after the oil fields? yes. could you go after the nuclear enterprise? that would involve a complicated operation and i doubt seriously we'd do anything on that level of scale but, yes, we should take them on. stuart: this is strong stuff, general, but let me transfer our attention to the idf, israel, idf withdrawing some troops from gaza. can you tell us why they're doing this? >> yeah, there's a number of tactors and there's a sense of exhaustion and fatigue and there's a lot of concer

we begin with those deadly blasts in iran with nbc's teheran bureau chief ally -- ali arouzi. >> reporter: wounded 210 others near a cemetery in iran where a ceremony was being held to mark the 2020 death of country's top commander, in a u.s. drone attack. one blast and a second explosion during the ceremony in the southeastern part of iran. the first blast struck about 2,300 feet from the grave site. there was tight security around the grave site, and only officials were allowed in there. most of the people killed were civilians outside on the street. also according to officials the blasts were caused by a terrorist attack. there have been some conflicting reports as to the cause of the blast. it looks like an explosive laden suitcase was detonated remotely, but officials here say they have some information as to who it could be. but as the investigation is ongoing, they're not going to release many more details. however, a senior member of parliament here said that he is waiting for more information but the attack bears all the hallmarks of an operation. former head of the irgc said tha

joining us from teheran, bureau chief ali arouzi.uthis, what is iran currently saying and what is the u.s. currently warning iran? >> reporter: well, the u.s. and the uk and others keep warning the houthis and their patrons here in iran to stop these attacks in the red sea or there will be consequences, and almost after every warning comes a bigger attack, katy. the last one according to the british defense secretary is the largest attack by yemen houthi rebels on red sea shipping. the u.s. military says the iranian designed one-way attack drones, anti-ship cruise missiles, and ballistic ship missiles, launched from houthi controlled areas of yemen towards international shipping lanes of the southern red sea. 18 drones, two cruise missiles and one ballistic missile were shot down by four u.s. warships and a british destroyer. and just to give you an idea, katy, of how expensive it is for the coalition to fight the houthis, the british shot down the houthi drones with what they call sea viper missiles. each one of the sea viper missil

i still believe that teheran looks to the houthis, it gives them range, it gives them reach. it gives them some measure of plausible deniability. it creates problems for the americans. you see the regional reaction. almost every arab state, bahrain was mentioned as a contributor, intelligence or political support. there have been protests on the streets of manama over the last 24 hours. this gives the iranians quite a lot with very little. it's a problem without a solution. you know the houthis at some point, i think your reporters got it right, they took a big hit. this was not a symbolic strike. it was designed to degrade capacity to lessen the houthis capabilities to use uavs, short range ballistic missiles, drones, to fight shipping. you believe in freedom of navigation or you don't. and if you do, you got to do stuff, and the stuff necessarily won't solve the problem. >> these are all proxy wars for iran. iran is backing the houthis, hezbollah, they're backing hamas. how do you degrade the capability of these three actors without going directly after iran and what more c

here is teheran bureau chief ali arouzi with what happens now. >> reporter: a lot of new informationge after yesterday's twin bombings that killed at least 85 people. just in the last few hours, the islamic state group on their official telegram channel have claimed responsibility for those deadly bombings in southern iran. they say the two suicide bombers with explosive vests detonated them in the middle of that crowd, about ten minutes apart from each other. they took great pride on their telegram channel saying that they had killed around 100 people in those suicide attacks. and it was a blow to shias. just before they made that claim. iranian state tv released a report saying investigators in this country believe that suicide bombers were likely had carried out yesterday's attack during the commemoration for leader kasim soleimani. a report quoted an unnamed official as an informed source saying that surveillance footage from the route to the commemoration at the cemetery clearly showed a male suicide bomber detonating explosives, adding that the second blast probably also came f

the response from iran if that happened, the worry is that teheran would feel that it would have to responddemonstrate that the u.s. or even israel shouldn't do something like that. so you could just imagine the kind of conversations that are happening in the situation, the things that president biden is trying to figure out. fundamentally, what the american people, you know, off and on being really told here is that there was a small contingent of u.s. military here in iraq, in syria, that nothing like the thousands that were here, of course, during the invasion of iraq, for example, they are a target. they're here to ensure that isis doesn't reemerge, but also kind of privately to try and confront those iranian forces in this region, and it is a very very difficult equation to try to square, if you like. because the iranians don't like the u.s. here. >> there are no clean decisions in that region. everything a multinational negotiation. keir simmons, uman, thank you very much. >>> coming up, what happens in the uk and the u.s. and what happens if the uk and u.s. go to recognize a palestin

britain in self-defense against teheran regime houthi puppets.sterday at chaght am house in london, we met with defense secretary who warned iran, quote, we see you, we see what you're doing, end of quote. in conclusion, god bless our troops who successfully protected america for 20 years, as the global war on terrorism continues moving from the safehe american borders. it's sadly clear there will be warned by thecks across america f.b.i. i yieldk. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> i rise today to honor 10-year-old liam lynch of western new york. liam was first diagnosed with ao the expert care through roswelll partnership, he went into remission. mr. higgins: unfortunately he relapsed but he's a tough, determined kid and he is determined and we support his efforts to succeed. with the support of liam's family and his community, he's donated more 2,300 pairs of pajamas to other patients at the hospital

we need to be looking at what moscow, teheran, pea i don't think -- pyongyang, and bay beijing are doing have a proven history of leading affirmatively to protect the country both on the southern boarder and in actions overseas. in my combat operations in afghanistan, off the coast of russia f you don't stand up to a totallytarian regime, they need a push one step further. we need a white house, that candidly has allowed russia to besiege ukrainement what happens with hamas, unanswered by the united states when we still have u.s. citizens who are being held hostage. we need to use all instruments of national power, not just the military, including our economic, our information, as well as our diplomatic in combination with our military to be able to push back on totalitarian autocrats around the world. i feel firmly the folks i talked with in iowa who want to be the next commander in chief could meet that stepping into office day one. >> we have less than a minute left. take off your military hat and put on a political one. we had a long time political analyst in iowa saying he thinks th