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U.s. has proof iran was behind the tanker attacks. iran is still insisting world powers honor the obama a era nuclear deal. how does all this end. security studies president jim hanson, who led counter terrorism operations in the u.s. army special forces joins us now to discuss a little bit more. thank you for joining us this morning. what should our response be? >> i think at this point when youve got representative adam schiff admitting it was iran, were past the point of assigning blame and w...

European nations remain in it. iran says in the next ten days they will break the deals limit on low enriched uranium and potentially begin enriching near-weapons grade uranium unless sanctions are ease. speaker of the house nancy pelosi blames the trump white house for the increased tensions. watch. >> we have absolutely no appetite for going to war or to be provocative to create situations that might evoke responses. we where mistakes could be made. what is their motivation to be provocative w...

Stockpile they agreed to under the nuclear deal. >> dana: is how will the united states make its case that iran is behind the tank or toxic? is that the u.n. security council or where it is >> we expect some relief of declassified images and a timeout from bomb disposal experts as some allies continue to question whether iran was the culprit in last weeks u.s. tanker attacks. the u.s. is going to release more intelligence that proves that the revolutionary guard corps carried out the attacks. >>...

Countries that struck the deal. fred pleitgen is with us. fred, iran is demanding that u.s. forces leave the persian gulf and that vital waterway, the strait of hormuz, saying that they, iran, are in charge of security in the area. >> reporter: youre absolutely right, alex, thats exactly what the iranians are saying. its pretty bold statements on the part of the iranians. on the face of it, if you look at the number of forces and also the sheer firepower of what the u.s. has in the region and wh...

In the afternoon. we will, of course, come back to you as soon as there is any more on this story. we appreciate it. well, iranian media reports the country will further scale back its commitments to the 2009 nuclear deal. last month iran stopped complying with some commitments after the u.s. unilaterally withdrew from the deal. the u.s. then hit tehran with new sanctions. details of the u.s. plan are expected in the coming hours. this comes as the u.s. and iran are trading blame for thursdays...

Place to have offensive launches of strikes if they need them to be but they dont want all out war. i dont think we know yet and the tanker attacks over the weekend were a bit of a surprise. its forced the united states to come out with more intelligence, blaming the iranians, central command has come out and said a drone was down. that wasnt known about. so youll see more and more, i think, intelligence coming out to make the case for the administration and for the military that, you know, enou...

Ohman. the u.s. says it has video evidence and now president trumps national security team is considering sending additional troops to the middle east in response to these tanker attacks. cnns senior international correspondent, fred pleitgen, is in tehran. fred, cnn just hearing from a senior iranian official. what did he say? >> reporter: yeah. hi, ana. this was christiane amanpour who heard just a couple minutes ago said they were headed for a confrontation. he also said he doesnt believe tha...

We wouldnt do it secretly, we would do it openly and talk about it. hes saying if anybody caused these attacks it wouldnt be the iranians because they would have done that a lot more openly. theyre pushing back on the claims from the trump administration that they were behind the tanker attacks. iran is blaming the u.s. behind the attacks saying the u.s. might have done it because the sanctions against iran arent working. they didnt provide any evidence to back that up. but youre absolutely righ...

Europeans need to do more to give iran the benefits of the nuclear agreement. this is a clear message today not just to the u.s. but to the european countries as well. rosemary? >> many thanks to our fred pleitgen, bringing us the very latest there from tehran. lets go to sam now, who as we mentioned is joining us from dubai. there is this other story were following. what is the latest you have on the truth behind these increasing tensions between the u.s. and iran over the trading of blame for ...

Even on nights and weekends. todays xfinity service. simple. easy. awesome. id rather not. welcome back, everyone, im rosemary church. want to update you now on the main stories were following this hour. protesters in hong kong say they will continue to jam the streets until a controversial extradition bill is withdrawn completely and chief executive carrie lam steps down. separately, pro-democracy activist joshua wong was released from prison monday and immediately added his voice to the cu...