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World. im sitting here, i have all the time in the world. in the mean tile there are very strong sanctions, they have to live with those sanctions, iran should do the right thing for their people. i dont believe their leader -- im not sure that their leaders care for their people. if they do, theyll make a deal. if they dont, theyre just thinking about themselves, and theyre selfish and theyre stupid if thats what theyre doing? >> just before those comments, cnn senior international corresponden...

This just in to cnn. escalating tension between the trump administration and iran. iranian foreign minister is speaking exclusively now with cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen, joining me from the capital. what did the foreign minister tell you? >> reporter: hi, kate. i caught up with him at an event here in tehran. the first thing i asked him is what he makes of the current threats from president trump and others in the administration. here is what he had to say. what do you m...

Very important international news, iran responding to president trumps threat of, quote, obliteration if iran attacked any foreign assets. fred pleitgen joins me live. you had a few questions put to the foreign minister. what did he say? >> hi, john. yeah, i caught up with javad zarif, only western media that was there. i asked him flat out what he made of president trumps threats from yesterday and this morning as well. here is what he had to say. >> what do you make of president trumps threats...

Of them in light theyre trying to get something free. or breaking the law. there are people who come over illegally. and with who have intentions. for the most part, people are coming over and risking their lives because they want to have a better life. what america offers. what america offered you. and what it offered at least in the recent past to people like me. and so i dont understand who we are. i dont know. i dont know how anybody can twist this. this into they shouldnt be bringing kids a...

Team is not concerned with us interests, they despise diplomacy and thirst for war. the president repeatedly said during his campaign he wasnt about war, wanted to get out of this overseas incursion but the critics say he is surrounded by hocks and they question what his real intentions are. >> he can tweet from tehran all he wants because when he faces sanctions hes traveling to europe and the united states spending peoples money and 5-star restaurants anymore. the president to the larger point...

They despise diplomacy and thirst for war. the president repeatedly said during his campaign he wasnt about wars. he wanted to get a rope overseas encouragement but the critics said he is surrounded by hawks. they question when -- what his real intentions are. >> they can tweet from tehran all he wants because sanctions this week he will not be traveling to europe and the united states to spend the peoples money in five-star restaurants anymore. the president made clear he doesnt want war. i don...

Irans top diplomat. the iranian president saying that shows that the u.s. is lying about its true intentions and wanting to iran get back to real negotiations, poppy. >> fred, its so rare to have reporters with access like you have on the ground in iran, especially in tehran itself. can you give me a sense of what the average iranian citizen thinks at this point? >> yeah. look, i mean, the average iranian or average person here in tehran weve been speaking to, a lot of people, of course, are ext...

Actually not to wear as much makeup as i can. i try to be as real as i can on social media so people can see the real me and say thats a genuine person who struggles with the same things i struggle with who has had to grind and work really hard to make something of herself and to build the business so i would just tell girls they dont get the luxury of starting before social media comes in. even though you have what i didnt have to deal with, you can still lay bricks of confidence and lay that f...

Managed to open the door to the plane but the drop to the tarmac was steep. she was eventually rescued by ground crew. this passenger rights advocate says this is a rare occurrence but it raises serious security concerns. >> if this would have happened with someone else who may have different intentions, injury could have resulted. the passenger had access to the cockpit and could have hypothetically turned on the aircraft. that would not have been a great thing to happen, to say the very least....

With his intentions and we are watching them play out in realtime. does this add to what hes got to do with the debate to succeed? >> hes proven to be a articulate and smart guy. when gouyou go back home and go the streets where people are angry of the shooting of another black man. it is nice to go out and articulate your plans. when you go back home, they want to see action. it is a tougher point on the debate stage. >> i thought what ravenell said to joe biden is interesting. thats not the jo...