the broader context and what we have taken away. so, heather connelly, she s the svp for europe and eurasia, and i m sure you know each other at cis. and she wrote about how 75 years later, we re at risk of carelessly tossing away the rich inheritance made by these men by damaging institutions like nato and the eu that were created to make war materially impossible in europe and by remaining silent or even enabeling fascist forces as they return to europe. as we re watching these images, you know, it s hard not to think that the fabric of this is being torn apart, just as these veterans, you know, we re losing them, day by day. and then you lose the living memory. it s really hard to hold on to that sense of urgency and the understanding. but heather s absolutely right. i agree 100%. they went we had world war i and that was supposed to make
now condemning missile attacks on kingdom by yemen s hughty militia. saab shot down a missile fired from yemen over the weekend while iran has denied it was behind the launch. the white house issued this statement. hugh think missile attacks against saab enabled by iran s islamic revolutionary guard corps threatened region security and undermine the u.n. efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict. the united states will the continue working with like minded partners to respond to the attacks. with us, national security cleanser gail lee monday and heather connelly. gail, this is an exploding situation right now because if. the saudi government, the foreign minister is accusing iran of an act of war because of this missile attack, who knows where it s going to lead. this is the question. you have the trump administration s very public
mistrust of iran converging with saudi arabia s real mistrust of iran and this moment where you re talking about both cracking down on corruption from the saudi side and consolidating power from saudi arabia s new leaders. the question is where does it end and how much support will this have in the region. how do you see it, heather. you re seeing external activism. you have to keep in mind yemen, you have of course, the blockade the boycott of qatar, lebanon and now she is internal challenges. we don t really have a good picture internally what s happening but an act of war this robust language put aside also syrian, the syrian conflict which has a very strong iranian ground element to it, it s incredibly volatile. the saudis fighting the rebels in yemen. they see them as an arm of the iranian revolutionary guard. the same thing with hezbollah in lebanon and all of a sudden over the past few years prime minister hariri steps down
president using this global stage to tick through his list of enemies, also signaling he could withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement which he called an embarrassment to the united states. the iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transaction the united states has ever entered into. frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the united states and i don t think you ve heard the last of it. believe me. let s discuss. i have aaron david miller and former middle east negotiator and heather connelly former secretary of state. now the senior vp for europe and eurasia. welcome to both of off. aaron, before we get into the nuts and bolts just a big picture, this is the first time he spoke in front of this body
one of my old bosses, george schultz a very wise man said when you don t have a policy the temptation is to give a speech and both on north korea and iran. the underlying substantive problem for the trump administration is we do not have an approach to deal with the reality of north korea s nuclear stockpile or the prospects that iran may well turn into a punitive nuclear power. that s a problem. keeping the agreement as imperfect as it is is important because there ain t a plan b on this one and that s the real problem and the president couldn t cover it up i suspect in the speech he gave. well the president of france who we ll talk to next hour, you know, wants the u.s. to stay in and is hoping to have some conversations to dissuade president trump from pulling out. we ll talk about that at the top of the next hour. heather and aaron, thank you so