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The "b" team is something that jabhat zarif has long referred to being john bolton, the national security adviser and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and mohammed bin salman. praising trump in the end saying prudence prevented it. and went on to tweet that what he believes is economic terrorism is causing tensions. of course, economic terrorism is what the iranians refer to as americas campaign of maximum pressure. of course those very tough sanctions on the iranian economy. meanwhile,...

It. remember george w. bush also believed the same narrative basically fed to him by dick cheney and the neoconservatives. iran is not punching back or surrendering. lets make it very clear, iran has vested tremendous sources outside of its society. it has infiltrated iraq, syria and others. the strategy of maximum pressure might bring about war. all it would take is a spot. the iranians will punch back. they are engaged in a calculated engaged escalation because they want to increase the costs ...

Japan. so, look, i dont think we should have gotten out of the nuclear agreement, but at the same time i think iran is being provocative. but what is needed here is the campaign of maximum pressure but also diplomacy. get iran, get us to negotiating table at least to deescalate. leland: all right. as we noted, the president says hes ready to talk anytime. so far based on what the iranians have said so far, theyre not exactly too interested in that. this is what tom cotton said earlier on "fox ne...

President, the one whos asking for us to thank him for not ordering the strike, has taken a series of steps that are designed to escalate tensions with iran, his campaign of maximum pressure. he started by violating the international nuclear deal with iran even though his own government said iran was in compliance. by surrounding himself with top advisers who have for years been agitating for war against the iranian regime. now faced with the incredibly highest of stakes consequences of those ac...

There had been people on board it would have been very different, i do think hes established a kind of a red line and the iranians have adopted a position that theyll go up close to that red line and in the meantime continue to demonstrate to him that theyre not going to be intimidated. and his maximum pressure will be met, in a sense, by their version of maximum pressure. think about what theyre doing when they take down a drone, theyre making it harder for us to look and see where their forces...

Thats because no international business wants to get in the crosshairs of u.s. sanctions. so that will likely bring iran to its knees again. it feels like 2011 all over again. >> you were quoted in "the new york times" saying in some ways president trump is on a collision course with himself. he says hes in favor of maximum pressure and hes against military confrontation when it comes to iran but both of those things cant be true because one of those things can lead to the other. so what should ...

Continued escalation, one a lot any. continued escalation until the administration gets under max malist objectives, which we can talk about. or they say no escalation in him. iran is not a threat. just like they did with new york. the reality doesnt change because iran is in a position to have a nuclear escalation. >> in the "new york times" this morning, great peter baker piece, president trump is on a collision course with himself. he says hes in favor of maximum pressure and against military...

You cant come after us. were going to ratchet this up a little bit. >> all right, so those are the military basic pieces going on here. obviously you weigh in on everything else as you want. but, aaron, let me bring you in. what do you think iran wants by doing what it just did? >> you know, i think the supreme leader wants no peace, no negotiations on one hand, and no major military confrontation on the other. i think in 2020, 21 hed like to see a new president here. and a new president in iran...

Major military confrontation on the other. i think in 2020, 21 hed like to see a new president here. and elections are in 2020 and i think hed like to see president rouhani associated with the jcpoa agreement leave, replaced by someone much more manageable and flexible to the supreme leaders point of view. in the meantime i think the iranians are trying to remind the president that the campaign of maximum pressure can be reciprocal. it strikes me, chris, this campaign is working all too well. we...

Iranian context. our hardliners are empowering their hardliners and vice-versa. and think thats what youve seen play out in recent days. lets start with john bolton and mike pompeo the secretary of state and national security adviser who last year were -- helped to orchestrate the pullout of the united states from the iran deal. they promised that this campaign of maximum pressure that would lead to this so-called better deal. and i think in some ways the results speak for themselves. the united...