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Minister who has hundreds of thousands of votes from his constituency rather than a president who could stand up to the supreme leader on key political foreign policy or domestic issues on the basis of having tens of millions of votes. so this election will decide an awful lot about what happens inside iran and in its engagement with the outside world. >> and, vali, would it be fair to say that one important backdrop here is the failure of the reformists? i sometimes think that americans think t...

On iran, in donald trumps word, has essentially shattered the reformist credibility in iran. fair to say? >> yes, fair to say. in fact, the scenario that robin was laying out of this imperative of consolidation of power under hardliners as the supreme leader moves toward managing his own succession was possible because it was a unique opportunity that the iranianapo the world and also about ro rouhani. they believe he had mismanaged covid, he mismanaged the economy, he had an elitist, aloof air ...

Attacks. now the question of whether this attack came from iran or iraq will be a very significant one. either way, the administration believes that this was carried out by iror its proxies, but of course if this did originate from iran, this would be a very serious escalation this official told me and all of this of course very note bable given the fact this it come as the u.s. president has been considering a potential diplomatic opening with iran with the united nations general assembly appro...

>> cnn producer shirzad, thank you. we will continue to check in all morning for updates. lets stay in iran for a moment. i want to bring in cnn global affairs analyst bobby gosh and lieutenant general mark hertling. bobby, tell us about the tone and response we are seeing from irans leaders. we are hearing from president ro rouhani calling legal acts done by extremists and we are hearing from the ayatollah a much harsher tone. tell us what is happening here? >> this is the traditional dwight ...

Leader saying saudi leaders will face justice. they ransacked the embassy on saturday. our viewers are seeing those protests. more protests are expected today. we have seen evidence in recent weeks of a thorning relation between the two. reports that saudi would send a new ambassador to improve the ties. hard-liners i think it strengthens them in both capital. the road outside the saudi embassy in tehran renamed martin nimr today and provocative in anybodys books. now compare those comments with...

But for me any way this is getting a little long in the tooth. >> general, the response potentially beyond the strong word that we have seen from rouhani, from al abadi, and the spokesman from the state department, will this end in condemnation of the u.s. or do you expect there will be more? all right, i think we might be having an audio issue. bobby, let me stay with you because we are having an audio issue with the general. bobby, let me put up this picture we saw put on the supreme leader in...

The other way, its not that we want to try and blame the accuser or second guess the accuser, we dont know what this woman was going through 36 years ago, we dont know the circumstances. she deserves respect, she deserves to be heard, kavanagh whos been accused deserves to be heard and i think well get our answers next week. >> the iran is accusing other nations including an attack on sunday where a gunman killed 29 people at a parade. hassan rouhani who said that it is america who supports thes...