but on a 2007 trip to tehran, she was accused of treason, arrested, and placed in solitary confinement for 105 days. director of the middle east program at the woodrow wilson center, haleh esfandiari. i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. dr. haleh esfandiari, welcome to our program. >> thank you for having me. >> hinojosa: so, in the fall of 2007... no, in the spring of 2007, suddenly i go to my computer and i start seeing these emails that say, "there is an iranian-american academic who is being held in a tehran prison. do everything that you can to try to get her out." and of course i started sending that to many people, and i received it from women's groups, from journalist groups, from human rights groups. i don't remember any of those emails saying that haleh esfandiari was a grandmother who was detained. how did you survive? you were 105 days in solitary confinement. >> it was very tough, maria, but i am a very disciplined person. and being 67 years old and a student of iran, having studied carefully, a lifetime, iran, i knew how to handle my interrogators, and i knew how to m

security council has triebut failed to reach a deal with tehran on its nuclear weapon program. iran has defiantly marched toward developing nuclear weapons by refusing to negotiate with the united states in good faith. instead, its leaders have continued to cl for the destruction of israel and the destruction of the unes. now isn't that lovely. just as november in t of nuclear negotiations the iranian revolutionary guard corps released this statement. the united statess still the great satan and number enemy of islamic revolution and islamic republic and the islamic iranian nation. iran's actions over ths are not surprising. after all it is the world's largest state-sponsor of terrorism. using both its military and proxy hezz bowla, iran has -- hezbollah, iran has planned attacks around e world.

bigger, stronger and capable of flying farther than before as talks drag on with tehran about playing nice. all this after president obama seemed to suggest on tuesday night that things are getting better in the middle east, suggesting we have turned the page on terror. and that's where we begin a busy night on "the kelly file" everyone. welcome everyone. i'm megyn kelly. all of this is far away, but all of it could directly affect your safety. first, yemen, where the u.s. allied government has fallen. now we're told there's anarchy in the place that's home to the worst and most lethal branch of al qaeda. then, in just the last couple of hours we learned saudi king abdullah has died at age 90. his successor is pro-western but told that creates a big headache. we'll get to that in a moment. first, fox news just got this video from channel 2 in israel. it shows what we are told is a brand new intercontinental ballistic missile just outside of tehran, potentially capable of reaching far beyond the middle east. something the pentagon warned could be in development two years ago. we will g

the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of tehran>> dan, striking language from a member of the president's own party. why aren't members of both parties challenging the president so strongly on iran? >> because we have arrived at a point where the members of the senate who work on the subjects have lost faith in the president's ability to negotiate a secure agreement with the iranians and the specific point there we showed the president saying, he had halted the progress of their program. look, in nuclear arms negotiations every detail, every phrase is vetted carefully. why did he say halted? because the arms control community immediately jumped on this and said this is not true. >> they're still enriching uranium. >> they're still enriching uranium, storing it. they're still working on their senary senary centrifuges. senator menendez i think is entitled to say that they are not doing a deal they can support. >> mary, thedid you agree with the speaker's decision to invite prime minister netanyahu without asking the white house firs

. >> tehran is not saying what he's charged with. we'll talk to a colleague in iranian prison as well. >> the city of detroit hoping to bring developers back to the suburbs by tearing down streets of blight. >> two rock climbers making history, going to the top of el captain. >> tee shirts mocking the death of a rock star. >> you're looking live at washington d.c. this morning where the talk of the capitol is security as they discuss an attack that was foiled on the capitol. president obama meeting with british prime david cameron today, both leaders discussing security, as well. >> good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. ahead, we'll look into the polite of an american journalist imprisoned by iran. >> oklahoma set to execute an inmate today with a new procedure. >> in our next hour, is the third time a charm or a nuisance for the gop? why mitt romney's potential white house run is met with mixed reviews. >> first a look at top stories this morning. a top level shakeup at the secrete service, four assistant directors ordered to

house and invited benjamin netanyahu to address congress next month about the growing threat from tehranand robert menendez had this to say about the administration's diplomatic approach. >> iran is clearly taking steps that can only be interpreted as provocative. yet the administration appears willing to excuse away any connection between these developments and signs of iran's bad faith in negotiations. >> i have to be honest with you. the more i hear from the administration and its quotes the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of tehran. >> dan striking language from a member of the president's own party. why are members of both parties challenging the president so strongly on iran? >> i think the reason paul is we have arrived at a point where the members of the senate who work on the subjects have lost faith in the president's ability to negotiate a secure agreement with the iranians. the specific point we showed the president saying he had halted the progress of their program. look, in nuclear arms negotiations, every detail every phrase is vetted carefully. w

debate that extends far beyond washington domestic policy to ri had and ha savannaha and jerusalem and tehran. >> new sanctions at this time are both unnecessary and far from enhancing the negotiations risk fatally undermining our diplomacy, making a deal less likely, and unraveling the sanctions that so many have worked so hard to put in place. gwen: we're back in iowa where a conservative summit is attracting nearly a full complement of republican presidential hopefuls. raising the question, who's not running? covering the week, our white house correspondent for real clear politics. ed o'keefe, congressional correspondent for "the washington post." michael frowly senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico and in iowa tonight john dickerson covering politics for slate and cbs news. live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill. corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> it doesn't matter what kind of weapon. it doesn't matter what time of day or night. when mother nature has done her worst the only thing that matters to us is keeping the l

tehran has basically turned the assad regime into a puppet state. they have done that in iraq for years. they are currently involved in activities to destabilize the governments of nations as near as bahrain. so separate and aparts, iran is engaged in activity today that should make us be deeply skeptical about their intentions. second, i'm worried about the negotiation and the potential consequences of it. the united states was engaged in a negotiation with libya over the dismantling of the nuclear program and they gave up their nuclear weapons. libya is no good example for anything now, but imagine the chaos if the weapons had had survived. we were involved in a deal and it dismantled their weapons program. the united states was involved in a nuclear negotiation with north korea where we asked them to freeze their program. they cheated and they have nuclear weapons now. i want this deal to look more like the deal with libya, a dismantlement than trying to make a deal about let's freeze it with a nation that has proven to be untrust worthy because

and in tehran over how to address it. >> we shouldn't be naive. iran has the capability to build a bomb. it has the knowledge and even if talks collapsed and we launched a war, the fact is we can't bomb knowledge. >> woodruff: plus, the debate over the portrayal of a u.s. soldier in the oscar-nominated film "american sniper." >> i think americans are hungry to see heroes on the field and i'm not talking about football players this sunday. heos on the battlefield. the film does a tremendous job and resonates with vets and civilians the battle we endure in camouflage and the battle when we come home. we see parades when we've come home and i'd like to see those same parades a year later when we're back in society. >> ifill: and, the art of the big bet the economic winners and losers of gambling on the superbowl. >> it's a cat and mouse game every single game. the public, the average joes, we will just let them play the game. >> woodruff: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has

the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of tehran. >> so let's be honest about what the joint plan of action is it's a freeze. it's a freeze that scientists that have come before this committee have said if they in fact decide to proceed and not make a deal, they need about three months. so the bottom line is that we are going to do all of this and ultimately be in a position in which if they don't make a deal we're exactly where we were at but with no immediate consequences to them. >> chief white house correspondent ed henry is live on the north lawn tonight. ed. >> reporter: megyn, good evening. this would be a huge blow to the president because for congress to override a veto for the first time in the obama administration after six years it would mean that top democrats like bob menendez would be bucking their own president. and it would be a huge bipartisan slap to the president. that's why today while he was on the road in idaho trying to sell his domestic policies from that state of the union address last night, his aides were

tehran is basically turned the assad regime into a puppet state. done that in iraq for years. they are currently involved in activities to destabilize the governments of nations as near as bahrain. so separate and aparts, iran is engaged in activity today that should make us be deeply skeptical about their intentions. second, i'm worried about the negotiation and the potential consequences of it. the united states was engaged in a negotiation with libya over the dismantling of the nuclear program and they gave up their nuclear weapons. libya is no good example for anything now, but imagine the chaos if the weapons had had survived. we were involved in a deal and it dismantled their weapons program. the united states was involved in a nuclear negotiation with north korea where we asked them to freeze their program. they cheated and they have nuclear weapons now. i want this deal to look more like the deal with libya, a dismantlement than trying to make a deal about let's freeze it it with a nation that has proven to be untrust worthy because if it's

indeed in tehran we saw a good dusting of snow coming through here. that certainly did allow for some fun to be had out there but also difficult conditions out and about. a decent covering of snow there. welcomed snowfall there, a chance for snowball fight. always the possibility of having fun when the white stuff comes down. it's now clear through bright skies coming in for tehran, and we see temperatures going up an inch at 13 degrees as you can see for tuesday. warm sunshine across the eastern side of beirut getting up to 18 celsius, and jerusalem should top off at 14 degrees. we're seeing the worst of the winter weather pulling its way away. we do have unsettled weather making its way across central parts. as for eastern areas it does look fine. warm sunshine making its way across baghdad and i think by the end of the week we could see temperatures of 25 degrees. >> thank you very much, indeed. an emergency session in yemen has been postponed. members of parliament have been expected to talk about the recent regular he's nation of president hadi.

lou: well, in tehran they should be. i don't know if their glow is because of the abject nasty campaign being waged by this white house against the leader of our greatest ally in the region, or because it looks like they're going to get everything they've ever dreamed of with these nuclear negotiations, which prime minister netanyahu opposes and has forcefully from the outset. >> the unfortunate situation right now lou, with his visit to washington the focus, instead of being on the danger and the threat of iran the focus is on the relationship between the prime minister and the president. there should be some responsibility. some responsible adult that would put things down and would meet and would work together and backseat or back room negotiations needed now. lou: yeah. talking with general jack keane. talking about this kind of nonsense that's ensuing, pettiness and spite from the white house, it hurts israel. but it splashes back so forcefully against the president. and certainly they realize that. netanyahu, to hi

>> talking points for tehran?he was using a little hyperbole hyperbole. >> a little hyperbole. >> you can't say he doesn't have any idea what he's talking about. >> the speech writers for president obama in state yoofof the union declared iran is decreasing its some piletockpile of nuclear -- enriched uranium. that's not true. they decreased the speed at which they're enriching uranium. democrats do this. this is the same argument they made about health care premiums. bend the cost curve down. health care premiums were going to go down. they haven't gone down. they're not going down. the speed as which it's going up have slowed. >> do you really believe the democrats want to see iran move ahead on -- >> i don't know what they want. >> oh, my god. >> bob it's not about that they believe their kind of thinking will work as though that every country is like a romance novel that obama can crack open and read. it's not that way. they don't care about -- >> like with putin and assad. >> yeah. >> i don't -- >> everything

menendez said clearly a week ago the president sounded at times as if his talking points were from tehran and is now lined up with the president. what do you make of it? >> i think it's obama democratic politics. i would hope that we could come up with a bipartisan approach to sanctions. we have in the past. but negotiations have been going on a long time. i think they are too protracted. i don't know anything good will come out of it. but i think obama is chasing a deal. he's wanting some kind of deal with iraq but a bad deal is a bad deal and i think that sanctions worked, they will work harder and that's what brought iran to the table thus far. i believe it will keep them at the table or they will pay an awful price. >> the awful price they paid so far is the return of about $8.5 billion that have been released by the administration, most recently just under half a billion dollars, another $3 billion or so to be released before the june deadline, at least as deadlines go with iran. they are not so quick to honor them or to meet them. >> well that is -- >> what will be the impact? >> we

. >> reporter: yet idaho republican suggested the administration is being duped by tehran. >> i think you guys are being bamboozled. i hope you can come in here someday and say you had no idea what you are talking about. i don't think that is going to happen. >> reporter: fear of a bad deal is why many lawmakers support passing a bill to get congress final authorization. some say they need to know the final package is a good deal for the u.s. >> live on the hill, thank you. >>> now to another major hot spot, yemen. it's difficult to know just who is in charge there tonight. one thing is certain, the situation there is extremely fluid. national security correspondent is watching it all tonight from the pentagon. >> reporter: a day after iranian backed militants stormed the palace surrounding the president inside his home officials and state run media say both sides agreed to a truce. the pentagon and state department refused to call it a coup. >> the government is led by the president. he is in his home. we have seen a break down in the institutions in yemen and obviously there is a gr

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administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of the tehranit feeds to the iranian narrative of victimization, when they are the ones with original sin. an illicit nuclear weapons program going back over the course of 20 years, they are unwilling to come clean on. >> richard, i know you know this well, better than i do. i am stunned by this political performance. anytime you're dealing with israel, it's tricky business, but to go right in there, these two voices, accusing tony blanken of being a mouthpiece for tehran, for the ayatollahs? isn't that beyond the usual politics we engage in in this country? >> you and i both grew up in the era that politics stopped at the water's edge. i don't believe we live in that era anymore. i don't know whether the white house or the israeli opposition is more unhappy. this statement will come literally days before the israelis go to the polls. >> with le hear from the others or just netanyahu. how about a balance here once in a while? just a thought. >> i expect in this case we'll only hear from the prime m

today an iranian news agency reported that his case has been referred to tehran's revolutionary court which possibly sets the stage for a review re e "post" executive editor released a statement that reads in part we still don't know what charges the iranian authorities have brought against our correspondent. but we hope that the referral of his case to a revolutionary court represents a step forward to his release. >>> the roads were pretty clear and the parking lots free of snow. thousands of students still had a day off from school, though in north virginia. fairfax and prince williams counties decided to miss classes. but for some this means no pay. >> reporter: fairfax county school buses just sit in this parking lot, going nowhere today. but if they did venture out, this is what they'd encounter, main roads and highways dry and snow-free. we found the same thing on side streets. so why the day off? >> my folks were out earlier enough and it was coming down and sticking immediately just like forecast. >> repor plattenburg is the assistant superintendent for facilities and transpo

>> well the only place that can have an influence on what is going on right now is tehran.s exactly what the iranians want to do because they tried to surround us from other places they tried in iraq and syria, and lebanon, and bahrain, and they tried before with morsi in egypt and sudan, so the last card that is still -- could work to pressure saudi arabia is yemen. so they are using this to pressure saudi arabia to come to a compromise with them to obey their demands to reduce oil production or whatever they want us to do but that's not going to happen. because i tell you -- on beat information that i hear that the houthis send a delegation to saudi arabia earlier, promising to protect our borders, and at the same time saudi arabia should not cut its funding to the yemeni government saudi, of course doesn't need [ inaudible ] so they said no thank you, and sent them away. so that's what iran wants to play this card with saudi arabia and the gulf. >> let me ask you a final question yesterday we heard the houthi leader say he wants president hadi to implement the various va

there's senator menendez accusing the white house, his phrase using talking points coming out of tehranat sounds like something beneath the dignity of ted cruz. >> there's no dignity here. you know lawrence, there's nothing dignified about these kinds of attacks. what they're trying to do is make a partisan gesture out of an incredibly dangerous foreign policy move. what we're talking about here we're going to be seeing netanyahu in the congress two days after the next deadline in these talks with iran. the next deadline is march 1st. there's supposed to be a frame work agreement by that time which would then go on until july 1st to have all the implementation arranged. that's a very tight deadline. and the notion that netanyahu is going to come deliberately to undermine the possibility that an agreement could go through before the u.s. and its allies the five permanent members of the united nations, the u.s. britain, france china, russia, plus germany, are the negotiating sides. on the other side is iran. israel is not part of those negotiations. the idea that netanyahu believes he has

. >> in tehran, hundreds to the streets after friday prayers. demonstrations in the algerian capital were broken up by police. >> the french interior minister announced today that dozens of people were arrested in raids during the early hours of friday. those taken into custody are suspected of helping the gunmen behind last week's terror attacks. the raids were focused in the southern paris suburbs. >> this neighborhood was one of the scenes of the raids early friday morning. those took place in five suburbs across the greater paris area. 12 people in all were taken into questioning. most were previously known to police for criminal violations. all were acquaintances of a medical only -- all were acquaintances of the shooter suspected of assisting him with weapons or vehicles, like the scar on the left, found last friday after the attack on the kosher supermarket. he and his friends are suspected to have bought it several weeks earlier. the suspected accomplices were tracked using phone tapping and dna samples. many of the 12 are thought to hav

the administration and its quotes the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of tehranfeeds to the iranian narrative of victimization, when they are the ones with original sins. the nuclear weapons program going back over 20 years, they're unwilling to come clean on. >> political reports that several democratic senators are reconsidering their support of the bill after the president's state you of the union address. >>> abortion bill was scrubbed at the 11th hour. two freshmen gop members raised concerns the effect the bill would have. renee ellmers told the national journal -- >>> the house will still vote on a bill prohibiting federal funding for abortion, though. >>> mitt romney and je jeb bush have been trading jabs now jonathan martin of the "the new york times" say they plan to meet in utah. the times reports it was bush who invited romney out of deference of his previous bid. preventing running two campaigns that would compete for the same donors. the state party chair tells the wall street journal, he plans to campaign in the caucus. bush is sitting out congress

his counter parts in germany and france on thursday and negotiates remain at odds on the scale of tehran's nuclear program and one sticking point is how much uranium the iranians should be allowed to enrich. >>> sunday marks anniversary of the largest disaster drill the city has ever seen. it was based on a scenario of a jolt from a magnitude 9 earthquake. about 350,000 people participated at a subway station station, about 100 people hunkered down after an emergency announcement was made and then they walked to a temporary shelter. >> translator: it was good to have come and taken part in a drill. now, i won't have to panic if an actual earthquake strikes. >> translator: i heard a majority of young people were killed after the quake. i really think it is important to convey the experience to them. >> the magnitude 7.3 quake rocked the region january 17th, 1995. more than 6400 people died. they managed to rebuild their port city after a massive effort that took many years. >>> members of japan's largest political opposition are in the midst of a close race for party president. the three ca

he says there are disturbing echoes of the world 20 or 30 years ago when tehran diploid hit teams, basicallyto wage war on the enemies of the islamic republic. but we are running out of time but briefly, we are seeing papers focus on an alarming report by oxfam. >> that is right. the charity has raised the alarm. it comes ahead of the davos meetings, which kick off this week. according to this report khamenei quality is continuing to grow across the world at an alarming rate and unless steps are taken to address this, the collect -- according to this report inequality is continuing to grow across the world and an alarming rate and unless steps are taken to address this, one will exceed the other this year. this french paper is focusing on this alarming report, a talk about skyrocketing inequality, dizzying figures, and it is also really outraged today, the communist paper. it wonders how the world can access such a scandal. it wonders whyçñ? st the measure of how much grief was in my life, because i would tell them about the next friend who was sick or the next friend who was dying, and the

the statement we had from tehran said he was on assignment to syria giving crucial advice to shia fightersing shea. whatwhat does this have influence across the middle east. >> the revolutionary guard is the part of the islamic republic of iran, in terms of taking on its enemies which today is not just israel but also saudi arabian and also i.s.i.s it's a group that protects iran's interest, a group that gives financial and military support to groups which iran is close to. and of course, in iran today the military body that's closest to the supreme leader, politically speaking is the revolutionary guard as well. >> but how much influence do you think they have, for example, in the fight against i.s.i.l. right now? >> in iraq, they have a lot of influence. in iraq they are the only force which has boots on the ground. they are taking on i.s.i.l, in fact according to an irannan official iran has created a 20 kilometer military zone on its border with iraq. if any i.s.i.l. forces get near iran in agreement with iraqi government would protect that. iran is very much involved in the fight agai

tehran has basically turned the assad regime into a puppet state.hey have done that in iraq for years. they are currently involved in activities to destabilize the governments of nations as near as bahrain. so separate and aparts, iran is engaged in activity today that should make us be deeply skeptical about their intentions. second, i'm worried about the negotiation and the potential consequences of it. the united states was engaged in a negotiation with libya over the dismantling of the nuclear program and they gave up their nuclear weapons. libya is no good example for anything now, but imagine the chaos if the weapons had had survived. we were involved in a deal and it dismantled their weapons program. the united states was involved in a nuclear negotiation with north korea where we asked them to freeze their program. they cheated and they have nuclear weapons now. i want this deal to look more like the deal with libya, a dismantlement than trying to make a deal about let's freeze it with a nation that has proven to be untrust worthy because if

imaginary map of the world, and realized i could stay in this small room of mine in the middle of tehran and the world will come to me and come through these books. about america he would also take me to movies every week at the end of the week and we would see egyptian movies, french movies, american movies and with the american movies the thing i remembered was the musicals because people are politely sitting and eating and in the middle of eating all of a sudden gets up and sings. and do weird things. soon enough americans and persians and others were doing the same thing. it was that portable world, that america that i turned to. i want to end by saying it was very hard to choose these books because we are all promiscuous when it comes to art. and so i had 24 books. i had to condense it to books that express my feelings and the books i chose where i realized how the american novel the american fiction goes against class materialism of the american dream. there are two sides to this dream. the fact that most of the important american heroes are outcasts and strangers not just in huckl

own bomb, accusing argentinian president cristina fernandez of trying to cover up charon's role -- tehran'se in hopes of improving trade relations with iran. >> the objectives of the argentinian government were to strengthen durations -- relations with iran, and in the face of a severe energy crisis, to buy oil from iran so that eventually iran would buy grain from argentina. >> iran has always denied involvement in the attack. the argentinian president's office said the accusations were ridiculous. but many were hoping to hear what he planned to present to support his allegations. an autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of his death. >> that brings you up-to-date on all the international news. >> that is all the time we have right now. think for joining us. [captioned by the national captioning institute which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] lliance to tackle terrorism as e.u. leaders meet in brussels, hot on the agenda is the return of radicalized europeans who fought in syria and iraq. stepping up the fight against boko haram camer

he promised to veto any new sanctions against tehran if they would jeopardize hopes of a deal. to discuss that in more detail, i'm joined on the line by an iran expert over in sweden. thanks for being here over on "france 24." in terms of his legacy, obama wants to secure an agreement with iran before he leaves. is that feasible, in your view? >> i think it is absolutely feasible. i think both the iranian side and the american side want that to happen. >> is it wise for obama to say that sanctions are off the table, that he will veto any sanctions republicans put forward? because if a deal is not reached at the next deadline which is in march and that kind of her moves any leverage the united states might have. what do you think of that strategy? >> i think republicans in congress are misunderstanding the process. the united states is not to does not supposed to impose sanctions while negotiations are ongoing. they want to prepare for new sanctions in case things don't work out. the problem is that can disturb negatively the atmospheric negotiations. at this point, adding new s

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a lot of the press accounts talk about this tug of war between tehran, when you are a yemen on the groundin a major town in sen nigh, do you have a sense of this tug of war? do you realize there are iranians who want the country to one way, and the saudis that want it to go another way, and u.s. interests that are making themselves, or are you just trying to get along. >> iran is a new player on the scene, there is rhetoric that was spreading for the first time ever, where a yemen would ask the other are you sunni or shia, the term was not something we would use normally. and then you have transformed transformed into a new form of what i call neozadiasm, which is what the houthiss are representing, for once ever since 2011 with the absence of a strong government, you have a rhetoric going on about who are you, who are you with, we are looking for outside powers to give us a stronger sense of identity, rather than looking at the government. and so you start hearing people ask so are you sunni, or are you shiite, how do you pray, and this kind of dialog is really a dialog that divides yeme

it's made in tehran it's made with al-qaeda leadership. >> reporter: in a television address on tuesdayhe leader of the houthi rebels explained his group's action. he said hadi was not negotiating a power sharing deal in good faith. and accused of working with al-qaeda. and warned the international community not to interfere. >> translator: i would like to tell the security council that my measures they are making to shut us up will not benefit you at all. we are prepared to face any consequences. this is a crucial issue for the fate of the country, the future of its people and the dignity of our nation. >> reporter: members of the gulf cooperation council have called the situation a coup and urged the houthi to withdraw their fighters from all security and military institutions. in this town people demonstrated against the houthis, burning posters of the houthi leader and saying what they are doing is a coup attempt. the rebels which took control of the capitol and nine other provinces last year say they want a real partnership and a say in the decision-making process. warning the pres

in 2006 when the danish embassies were burning in beirut and damascus and tehran, i was shocked and surprised. it seemed very unreal. so i couldn't relate it -- to it in a serious way. but this time, it hit me very hard, because it couldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has been following events over the past nine years. >> and i want to talk about those events. that started when you published those cartoons. but i do want to ask you in the context of these friends of yours being killed _ you are on the same al-qaeda hit list, and inspire magazine, the al-qaeda magazine, as was the editor of charlie hebdo, as is salman rushdie a quarter-century after he published “satanic verses.” what is it like for you to live knowing that you have to worry about this constant threat? >> well, i'm trying not to focus on it. i really put a lot of effort into doing exactly the same as i would have done without being on this list. because if i start to change the way i live my life and what i do and what i believe in, then i would hand those who would like to come after me a victory. and i don't want to do

our embassy in tehran and to hold americans hostage for over a year. an act of war for which it has never fully answered. the iranian constitution states that iran's army and the revolutionary guard core quote will be responsible for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad and god's way. that is extending the sovereignty of god's law throughout the world. end quote. perhaps more than our own leadership, the ayatollahs have kept faith with their constitution. iran has been killing americans for over 35 years. in 1983 iran helped finance and direct the bombings of the u.s. embassy and marine barracks in beirut, killing hundreds of military, diplomatic and intelligence personnel. in violation of all civilized norms, iran which resulted in the death of a navy diver. iran has been implicated in the 1996 tower bombings, which killed 19 americans stationed in saudi arabia at the time. more recently, and more personally for me, iran is responsible for the killing and maiming of thousands of american troops in iraq and in afghan afghanistan afghanistan. dur