university of new york, speaking to us here in new york. mohammad marandi, professor of english literature and orientalism at the university of tehran. part of the nuclear deal negotiations in 2015. speaking to us from iran. when we come back, the guatemalan elections. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. we turn to guatemala, where the supreme electoral tribunal announced thursday it will hold a recount amid fraud allegations following last sunday's presidential and legislative elections. former first lady sandra torres of the party une currently leads the presidential race with nearly 26% of votes. before the recount was announced, a runoff was expected between torres and alejandro giammattei, the candidate for the ultraconservative vamos. both of them have been accused of money laundering and ties to drug traffickers. a leading presidential candidate was barred from per dissipating in the race and was forced to flee guatemala after receiving death threats. during her time as guatemala's top electoral prosecutor, thelma many, helped investigate including former president otto perez molina, who

of a political science professor at the university of tehran thank you for joining us on the program today. the speaker of the georgian parliament has resigned after mass protests in the capital the russian foreign ministry accuses georgia's radical opposition of using the visit of a russian delegation to provoke protests 240 people have been injured including 80 police officers georgia's interior ministry labeled the unrest and last of coup a reported over 300 people detained you may find the following pictures disturbing . i. was. just vocal critical dogwood the situation got very heated there was response and then the crowd good out for another storm stone sticks and both walls with thrown from the side of the crowd special forces fired rubber bullets and deployed to a gas line as dawn broke on friday of police appeared to be in full control of the city center but the opposition has announced a new round of protests on friday night there saison attempt to storm the parliament building an estimated $5000.00 demonstrators rallied against the participation of a russian delegation and

further into this now i'm happy to say that full professor of political communication at the university of tehran joins us live on the program you're very welcome iran's leadership said the u.s. has closed the door on diplomacy with the latest sanctions what's the implications of that statement do you think we're going to see a protracted political crisis or is there in your opinion a significant chance of conflict. i think significant. because the united states has done activities in the past have invaded honest. neighbor. the only reason they have not that kind of iran is because of us military capability and the fact that he is living in. the. reason the us has not attacked iran is not because of. what may happen is that given the fact that the us is. through an accident confrontation with planned compensation. sometime maybe the. military. may get back in time. in terms of penalty do you think we will see around them poetry toiletry ones against us or it's. being reported the arena in parliament has proposed legislation that would allow you to collect the total from foreign ships passing thro

and i'm sure the line about how much of a solvent his professor of political science at the university of tehran professor what do you think 1st of all think of this incident at this stage can we ascertain whether this was an attack as some reports suggest or perhaps something else. well 1st of all we can order ignore the timing of these attacks they happened during the state visit of japanese prime ministers to iran after 4 decades and actually the visit by the japanese prime minister was aimed at the escalating tensions between iran and the united states and on the very day that the japanese prime minister is meeting with the supremes leader of iran ayatollah harmony these 2 ships get attacked and in fact reports are saying that at least the cargo of one of the ships was owned by japan so i think 3rd parties i don't think it was necessarily done by the united states but for now i think we should look at countries that have a motivation to escalate the situation in the region in those 2 countries are unfortunately saudi arabia and israel despite global calls for an easing of tensions in the fin

home when i speak to mohammad marandi who's head of the american studies department at the university of tehran thank you so much for being with us when giving iran's version of what happened in the gulf of oman last week the defense minister said that another boat an american boat he suggested was already at the scene before the iranian navy came to the rescue of the same as from the tank what evidence says iran have that this was an american vote. well the iranians have a strong presence in the persian gulf as well as in the gulf of oman and the strait of hormuz as well and the attack took place very close to the iranian. into iranian waters so obviously the iranians have a great deal of information about what goes on and this is one of the interesting things about the whole affair that the attacks took place so close to the iranian to iranian waters which is itself suspicious but more importantly the the america the americans claimed that these were mines but the owner of the ship says that they were not mines they were projectiles that came from the air and then later on the americans claim

here we go let's introduce our panel today joining us from tehran husain a muddy and assistant professor of political science at the university of tehran from oxford in the u.k. helen latimer a research associate at the school the oriental and african studies and from kuwait city a. professor of political science at kuwait university welcome to you all have an interior and where does all this leave us relations with its key allies across the region. well i think. the u.s. allies in the region are basically pushing the united states into a sort of military concert confrontation with iran which is basically based on the premise that any conflict with iran would set it back for years or decades and i think that is really a miscalculation that can lead to a regional conflict that can destabilize the entire region they are not basically taken into account iran's you know traditional strategic behavior in the region they want to act alone it will act within a. within an alliance and it won't go for war or conflict all alone i think it has a a coalition of state and non-state actors that can you know trigger a regional conflict so i

of the. cutter university we have also got a professor of political science from kuwait university and in teheran house on the an assistant professor of political science at the university of tehran welcome to all of you 3 professors on the show so that's get into it majid let me start with you. i mentioned this in my in my set up a little bit earlier the emergency and i am using escorts there because this seems to be this promise of we need 3 summits right now to deal with this emergency is it an emergency or is this in fact a way of almost creating the feeling of an emergency yeah well let's just clarify one thing which is that 2 of the summits were murders he said ok this climate summit is enormous i would always really issue but certainly there is some insight held consecutively in the show of emergency if you will because it was very clear for the saudis that they needed to prop up the situation with between the united states and. vied with with the american agenda in the region of course what the saudis are they're banking on the i'm about is what that is that the white house would change its position so quickly because their white house went from calling for war with iran

reaction from iran now we can talk to his audience a professor of political communication at the university of tehran professor welcome back to r.t. given iran's partial suspension of its commitments to the nuclear deal and its professed intention to resume high level uranium enrichment is there really much chance this deal can even be saved at this point. probably not. for about a year for europeans to do something and they haven't done much as you saw german foreign minister. now admitting they are not going to do what they need to do on the nuclear agreement the u.s. got out of the. europeans have been. at least a year. this is among. the iranian leaders are saying it's. not. so i think you know. what about the way the foreign minister is handling this he's had some harsh words for the country's opponents this monday i'm just gonna take a quick listen to that. sure. the new tensions in our region are the result of the us waging an economic war against iran mr trump himself is an ounce of the us has launched an economic war against iran we have never started any wars and we will not do so however i

political science professor at the university of tehran don't strum intended to attack. i think the fact that the uranium is we're able to shoot down one of the most advanced aircraft of the u.s. air force has been very humiliating for the image of the u.s. military as well as for donald trump himself who likes to project an image of a strong arm leader and i think donald trump is trying to rebuild that image essentially by saying that you know we get hit the uranium very hard but we decided not to do so because of so-called humanitarian reasons in reality i think the trumpet ministration understands that any such strike would be actually responded by the rain as well in this would lead essentially into war. the fact that this strongly whether it was shot down over international waters or iranian waters regardless of that we have to remember that this was a spy or a surveillance drone and i'm pretty sure it wasn't taking pictures of the fish in the persian gulf it was taking pictures of your union troops in the navy so what the americans are doing is essentially they are

cross knocking around i'm joined by my guest mohammad marandi and he is a professor at the university of tehran in beirut we have become ill was me he is a professor and political analyst and in florida we cross to robert rebel he is a professor of political science at florida atlantic university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mohamed let me go to you 1st and to ron give me your side or how iran's sees this whole thing playing out because iran's point of view is virtually silent in western media so western audiences don't know the other side of this story or as i would put it a artificially generated impending conflict go ahead mohamed. the most important thing in this story is that the united states is waging economic warfare against iranian women and children the united states has exercised in what our foreign minister said economic economic terrorism and that they are trying to make the running people suffer and to force the iranian people to suffer so much that the government will submit to the united states

talking around i'm joined by my guest mohammad marandi and put on he is a professor at the university of tehran and beirut we have become ill was me he is a professor and political analyst and in florida we cross to robert rebel he is a professor of political science at florida atlantic university.

i'm joined on the line now by professor mohammad marandi from the university of tehran let's look at the contradictions of that announcement we heard today professor washington says it's waiting for iran to come to the negotiating table but then also hints that sanctioning the country's top diplomat next week how do you assess that. the people here are more or less saying that the trumpet ministration is really. extraordinarily humiliated and upset that the iranians have been able to . shoot down a $200000000.00 drone are some double f. $35.00 with iranian made surface to air missile cost maybe a few tens of thousands of dollars. this humiliation i think is something that is still up sending them even during the last few days and the real reason why the united states didn't attack iran is that i think the united states is was surprised that not only was the run capable of carrying out such an operation and defending its airspace but also the fact that the iranians had no reservations they were not scared of the united states they were not intimidated by the united states i think that

claiming iran has been attacking ships in the persian gulf is professor mohammad marandi from the university of tehran he joins me from the iranian capital mohammad welcome to going underground so before we get there any events in the persian gulf or anywhere else we just heard david horowitz that and he's calling iran's mommas nazis. he's calling your country fascist medieval barbaric jew hating western ating woman aiding gating that's what your country is yet sounds mainstream that's what we usually hear in the western media so it's not very extraordinary i never understood what the mullahs mean but my boss at the university but the head of my department is a woman and we have jews in this country and we have kosher restaurants we have churches in this country and we see celebrations during christmas especially the armenian christmas in tehran and other major cities where we have christians and. anyone who travels you run would see and know that the anti iranian up again the coming out of the western media is largely nonsense well you have some way to go on cue right i think everyone would accept th

here we go let's introduce our panel today joining us from tehran husain amati an assistant professor of political science at the university of tehran from oxford in the u.k. helen latimer a research associate at the school the oriental and african studies and from kuwait city a. professor of political science at kuwait university welcome to you all. interior on where does all this leave us relations with its key allies across the region. well i think. the u.s. allies in the region are basically pushing the united states into a sort of military control confrontation with iran which is basically based on the premise that any conflict with iran would set it back for years or decades and i think that is really a miscalculation that can lead to a regional conflict that can destabilize the entire region they are not basically taken into account iran's you know traditional strategic behavior in the region they want to act alone it will act within a. within an alliance and it won't go for war or conflict all alone i think it has a a coalition of state and non-state actors that can you know trigger a regional conflict so i think t

the 2 tankers in the gulf of oman for as is there he is a professor of world studies at the university of tehran he says people need to look at the facts before accepting the u.s. version of events we have contradicting facts we have some facts that in the past at least the iranian leaders have talked about closing this foremost because of the economic pressures we have the fact that they have said that it's going to be able to serve others for them to be able to do so they also have the fact that iraq is not interested in a military confrontation with the united states we also know that iran is trying to go around the sanctions that the u.s. has imposed on iran and japan historically has been a custom of iranian oil one of the major buyers of you know iran and energy so the other fact that i think you have to look at is the idea of targeting japanese tank here when the japanese prime minister is visiting with the iranian president and it's not a black and white situation a military judge to leaders in sudan admit they ordered the dispersal of the sit in protest in khartoum which led to the kill

of the. cutter university we have also got a professor of political science from kuwait university and in tehran house on the an assistant professor of political science at the university of tehran welcome to all of you 3 professors on the show so that's get into it majid let me start with you. i mentioned this in my in my set up a little bit earlier the emergency and i am using escorts there because this seems to be this promise of we need 3 summits right now to deal with this emergency is it an emergency or is this in fact a way of almost creating the feeling of an emergency yeah well let's just clarify one thing which is that 2 of the summits were mergers he said ok this climate summit is enormous i would just always rail issue but certainly there is some insight held consecutively in the show of emergency if you will because it was very clear for the saudis that they needed to prop up the situation with between the united states and. vied with with the american agenda in the region of course what the saudis are they're banking on the i'm about is what that is that the white house would chang

who's a professor of studies at the university of tehran joins us from there now mr zandi tell us what more we know about this man and what he was doing. apparently he was a spying for the united states apparently had to come 1st to that action and depending on how much damage. to the country. different types of punishments his wife was also convicted and she got 15 years in prison but apparently his crime was more severe and he got to know how often does this kind of thing happen as far as a foreign spy a spy being caught within iran and then being executed it's quite rare this is the 1st the execution. i remember in recent years it doesn't happen that often. the timing of this execution is that relevant do you think. it could be you know we have this level of tension between iran and the united states his case was decided some time ago it's possible that the judiciary in iran expedite that is the excuse to send that signal to the united states that. iran is upset with what the u.s. is doing and iran is basically fighting back against u.s. assets with. human spies or drones are you aw

let's bring in our guests today they are mohammad marandi he's head of american studies at the university of tehran he joins us from the iranian capital hillary mann leverett is c.e.o. of the political risk consultancy group strategy and formerly u.s. state department official she joins us from washington and keeping us company in london sahil shahr he's a policy fellow at the european leadership network where he leads the iran project which works to protect the iranian nuclear agreement welcome to you all mohammad marandi in tirana welcome back to inside story as far as the trumpet ministration is concerned is there as of today a plan b. when it comes to what do we do next. i think that's probably the most important problem that the team in washington has created for trump there is no exit strategy this maximum pressure policy that the united states has imposed on iran is really a dead end the iranians are saying that we after 10 years of negotiations agreed to a nuclear deal we've given significant concessions we've been flexible and now the united states has exited the deal it is forcing other c

it is a professor in the department of american studies at the university of tehran he joins us from tehran we appreciate your time very much so picking up on what assad rouhani and abbas said do you think there is any hope that the palestinian issue could be a unifying force and this meeting tonight. but it should be this is a meeting of the arab league and the siniora. logic dictates that arabs and i believe there should be a concern about what israel is doing so it's palestinians but israel is doing to its arab neighbors what israel is doing in bombing women and children in other strips on a monthly basis basically so that should be a consent only problem is that the dictators that have gathered in saudi arabia don't care about their own people they don't care about palestinians what they care about is president trump and his deal of the century and as of a of diverting this acting attention to what's going on with the palestinian cause they have to have a book the man they have found iran to be a convenient bogeyman for them and they have consented and iran in a sort of concentra

of the. cutter university we have also got a professor of political science from kuwait university and in tehran has son the an assistant professor of political science at the university of tehran welcome to all of you 3 professors on the show. get into it majid let me start with you. i mentioned this in my in my set up a little bit earlier the emergency and i am using escorts there because this seems to be this promise of we need 3 summits right now to deal with this emergency is it an emergency or is this in fact a way of war most creating the feeling of an emergency yeah well let's just clarify one thing which is that 2 of the summits were murders he said ok this climate summit is enormous i would always rail issue but certainly there is some insight held consecutively in the show of emergency if you will because it was very clear for the saudis that they needed to prop up the situation with between the united states and. vied with with the american agenda in the region of course what the saudis are they're banking on the i'm about is what that is that the white house would change its positio

here we go let's introduce our panel today joining us from tehran has a madeon assistant professor of political science at the university of tehran from oxford in the u.k. helen lackner a research associate at the school the oriental and african studies and from kuwait city a. professor of political science at kuwait university welcome to you all. interior and where does all this leave us relations with its key allies across the region. well i think. the u.s. allies in the region are basically pushing the united states into a sort of military control confrontation with iran which is basically based on the premise that any conflict with iran would set it back for years or decades and i think that is really a miscalculation that can lead to a regional conflict that can destabilize the entire region they are not basically taken into account iran's you know traditional strategic behavior in the region they want to act alone it will act within a. within an alliance and it won't go for war or conflict all alone i think it has a a coalition of state and non-state actors that can you know trigger a regional conflict so i think

let's bring in our guests today they are mohammad marandi he's head of american studies at the university of tehran he joins us from the iranian capital hillary mann leverett is c.e.o. of the political risk consultancy group strategy and formerly u.s. state department official she joins us from washington and keeping us company in london sahil shah he's a policy fellow at the european leadership network where he leads the iran project which works to protect the iranian nuclear agreement welcome to you all mohammad marandi in tirana welcome back to inside story as far as the trumpet ministration is concerned is there as of today a plan b. when it comes to what do we do next i think that's probably the most important problem that the team in washington has created for trump there is no exit strategy this maximum pressure policy that the united states has imposed on iran is really a dead end the iranians are saying that we after 10 years of negotiations agreed to a nuclear deal we've given significant concessions we've been flexible. and now the united states has exited the deal it is forcing other co

let's speak to mohammad marandi who is the head of the american studies department at the university of tehran he joins us now via skype from the iranian capital mamma then we start by asking you how all of this is being viewed in iran is this and even further escalation despite president transported orders to stand down. well the view in teheran is that all of this is so utterly hypocritical because the united states hasn't been engaging in war with iran for a long time now the americans have been imposing economic warfare on iranian women and children for quite a while they even tried to prevent iranians from importing medicine which is bad to the loss of life and we know that the united states is constantly threatening iran with military action all options are on the table and this is not the 1st time an american drone came into iranian territory and was shot down but if you listen to the western corporate media or western state owned media you'd assume that the american narrative is true despite the fact that the united states has a history of lying one of the things that iranians remember

nations is indeed the question remains let's speak to the who's professor world studies at the university of tehran joins us now from turn on the 3 saudi welcome to the program iran as quick to deny as the united states to accuse what's your sense of your sense of what's going on but as you know in the past the iranian leaders have said that the vetting to close this data for moves if u.s. pressure on iran continues and escalates iran then the those have said in the past that if they're not able to sell oil other countries should not be able to do so yes so we have facts like that you also have the fact that what i what you heard by going to just jump in there would only go by that to have them if i could just jump in the united states let me just say what do you mean by that 1st point about the iran has said that they would be interested in in the closing the strait of hormuz you suggesting that this could be an attack that has been orchestrated by the iranian government to enable that to happen. what i'm suggesting is that we have hunted extinct facts we have some facts that in the past this the

what the iranians do next let's stay with that and talk to ford izadi he's a professor at the university of tehran he joins us live from there forward is already welcome to the news so the message from mr bolton there for all from donald trump as well don't mistake where they are at the moment as coming from a position of weakness your reaction to that. i think the didn't attack iran. because they realize the cost of an attack would be quite high this is the. main this in us media outlets present pentagon with against iran because they realize that the death toll of americans would be quite severe because you know them leaders have said repeatedly that if their country is attacked they will fight back. that's the basic message that they have so it's not a matter of patience. it's a matter of the allies thing that in an election year president. cannot run on a peace and prosperity take it when he is using a war against iran i notice your economy minister in the last half hour being quoted as saying we have things we can do to counter the impact of these new sanctions as being discussed in the past

let's bring in our guests today they are mohammad marandi he's head of american studies at the university of tehran he joins us from the iranian capital hillary mann leverett is c.e.o. of the political risk consultancy group strategy and formerly u.s. state department official she joins us from washington and keeping us company in london sahil shah he's a policy fellow at the european leadership network where he leads the iran project which works to protect the iranian nuclear agreement welcome to you all mohammad marandi in tirana welcome back to inside story as far as the trumpet ministration is concerned is there as of today a plan b. when it comes to what do we do next i think that's probably the most important problem that the team in washington has created for trump there is no exit strategy this maximum pressure policy that the united states has imposed on iran is really a dead end the iranians are saying that we after 10 years of negotiations agreed to a nuclear deal we've given significant concessions we've been flexible. and now the united states has exited the deal it is forcing other co

washington let's get the view now from iran we're joined by nasir hadi and professor of international relations at tehran university thanks so much for coming in can you tell us that around view of this incident the downing of the drone secondly you don't think that you know of things that you know. the global hawk has wired into the iranian airspace and they think this is the beginning and if they don't listen to strong it's going to be rick that's why the fund would look through basically mention 2 important crucial points one is let's not forget. even the americans are talking about 9 miles from here in the a bit of space in the minds of it really really rainy and the question is why us. more there but it's several 1000 miles that way from our border should come here to have basically coming those daughters their space their belief is that u.s. wants to croak that's a probation ok well what we need somebody the americans when they say these are crucial shipping lanes the strait of hormuz to protect the world's oil supply. yes i mean that's certainly share that when you don't want it on as more you don't has more

well professor of political communication of tehran university believes the move may come as a surprise for washington. and ominous is that some people in the white house that they would be able to which it would be able to do. and the sanctions. and you know i wouldn't do much now we know especially after today that. was wrong you don't is not building. fight back this is going to upset president around but hopefully he would be upset that people like john bolton have given him the advice that iran would continue to follow the moment one so i think trump is understanding that some of the people who. are not giving good advice and i think that their job is in mind because. most of. the relations between the countries plummeted further recently when washington accused the relevant talking to oil tankers in the gulf of oman iran vehemently denies all accusations while the u.s. has once again put all options on the table including military action. we are confident that we can take a set of actions that can restore deterrence which is our missions as you say a full range of options does tha

actor of the center for strategic and diplomatic status at the university of south florida is guessing whether the war of words between tehran and washington risks spilling over into our cars late that's it for this edition of so if you go i'll see you next time. this footage is unique because there's only a tribal lands on normally off limits to the public eric's allowed in because he's this is personal don't. people here know him simply as dr eric he's rich and famous some always on the move saving yachts and flying aircraft that its. own. he's considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. that's happening amazon. already so soon. going to busy doing nothing is going to do the population because it's going to people on. the swarm see them so moving. and good news was before. much of those who heard it's a preview of the. new movie. who were going. so good. move willie. walsh williams look beautiful where the militants look good. more muslim also those girls will give you good girls. to go to school so look i do assume you believe the short if story you should go. the steps to. get to me to do it with the littlest let

tehran. us now via web cam is iranian american counsel. also the author of "losing on enemy." and the professor at georgetown university. ch for joining us. do these additional sanctions the trump administration strengthen the hands of the hardliners in tehran or do they put iran closer to coming back the investigating table? >> it makes sure that the iranians will not come to the negotiating table with this administration, at least not as long as they continue on this path. i think when it comes to the financial pain this will impose painfulranians, the sanctions have already been imposed. when it comes to these type of measures, i really doubt they much effect at all, except for the fact that when they're sanctioning iran's top diplomats, the signal trump is sending is that he's actually not looking for negotiations at because if you're truly looking for negotiations, you wouldn't be sanctioning the guy talk to.re supposed to >> what would you expect the next step then from iran to be following this announcement? >> i think the iranians are to now movetinue forward with setting aside some restrictions that were imposed

preconditions get more on those tensions now between washington and tehran joining us now to parsi is a professor at georgetown university and author of the book losing in enemy obama iran in the triumph of diplomacy. and fairfax virginia we appreciate your time so much so. sending out the troops well troops actually wanted to officials that's a better word in a situation like this sending out officials to various allies what does it seem to you that it's up or ministration actually what's well i mean this is the problem that the trumpet mr ation has he wants different things the president want different things from what his secretary of state his vice president and his national security advisors want all of them have signed on to this maximum pressure strategy but they're only in the agreement when he comes to the tactics tonight an agreement when it comes to the objectives trump i think generally wants diplomacy but the others seem to be supporting this strategy precisely because they believe it would lead to a military confrontation and they all advised him to take military confrontation a couple days ago and he chose not to do so

out of the gulf the incident prompted all prices to surge tehran has threatened to shut the waterway in response to u.s. threats about sanctions alone do mr a senior lecturer at lancaster university think that there is no evidence the tankers were attacked by iran. you have to remember that the food does that we see a grainy black and white pictures and he doesn't say whether these are hit on me and because there is no evidence to suggest that it is indeed an iranian battle board and how do we know they're the people who are on board audience in fact i need the iranians did it why would there be so silly i needed to kind of open themselves up to criticism when the noid very well that there are civilians cameras satellites have all of our going around taking these pictures that's number one and the number 2 is the fact that we how hard a job will it be pointed dollar talk isn't when evidence have been doctored and we have our kind of submits and which are not actually revealing the truth and that is the reason why i would use the very phrase weapons of mass deception. i stay with r.t. more news coming your way after the short break. we are in strange situation where everybody is m

there was there was a body there reporting live from tehran joining us here in the studio mcjobs where a director of the gulf studies center at university so the plot thickens 1st of all we get these reports that president trump 1st of all stood up his his military and then stood them down again and now it seems that they sent a message by oman overnight saying we want talks you know if you go back 12 hours ago and look how things were developing the 2 capitals the one in washington and they're trying to reveal or not a 2 of the stories now and then the last 2 parts of the story that the americans they decided to have a military action station the tump last minute has changed there was no noticeable addition in the last one hour we we start receiving reports that actually this there was a message between. there was a command communication between the iran and washington by our own man and the message was clear washington is not and the trump is not interested in war and he needs a negotiation now we are moving ahead now the iranians say ok these are the photos of the drop more important they warned the drawing 3 times i think iranians t

certainly or ahead also tomorrow in tehran dorsai thank you for joining us on set now is measures where he's director of the gulf studies center at qatar university so we have this extraordinary report in the new york times that president trump authorized these strikes on iran then stood down the mission before any missiles were fired i mean what do you make of it why would trump of counseling i think it's important to remember that iran was on the list of a list and the elections as an election matter as an item so he wants to please his base basically this is an allegedly action camp absolutely and he has done what actually makes him happy he he would draw from the deal he imposed sanctions he basically make the economy of iran really falling apart so basically he has done everything he promised his base everything happening after that basically is calculated to trump trump the main focus is the 2nd if any action if any military action against iran will affect this badly he would never make it and i think the military action i mean it's not submitted to strike iran is actually what would happen after this strike basically occurred but but the f

wants to see that happen or adults in tehran but also thank you for that were joining us on set is mushrooms where he's director of the gold studies center at university. so we had this extraordinary report in the new york times that president trump 1st all surprised strikes on limited targets limited military targets in iran and as the planes were in the sky on the ships were in position he then cancel the order what do you make of it and why why would trump of counsel that i think. in the last 24 hours since he heard about the news. he was struggling between 2 main positions one his believe and his own his own interest as a president of the not is that and also listening to that position is listening to the stablish men to the minister to the printer going to the bomb of the state to the cia about that assessment between this and that he took his time actually i think at the end of the day he made his mind based on one main fact that he already announced you know he's running for the elections and he wanted to focus on this campaign which is already a star will start to november officially and he want to focus on this let's not forget trump. has ann