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Tensions at a time when they urgently need to be reduced. joining us now we have the president of the counsel on foreign relations, richard haas. in washington columnist and editor for the washington post david ignatious. >> richard haas, we have seen the soonny states sit back quietly as in some cases as iran's power continued to grow across the middle east. at some point without the united states in the middle as sort of the official, this was due to happen, wasn't it. >> it's partially a signal. >> i'm not talking about the executions. i'm saying at some point the soonny countries were goin...

It tells you that people are taking this one seriously. >> but david, when the state department is getting involved in whether it's syria or across the middle east, i've certainly heard this. i know you heard it. i know richard heard it. bitterness from soonny leaders talking about how they feel a n abandoned by the united states and by the way, this didn't start with an iran nuclear deal. this started with before then. they felt like we as a country and they've said it time and again have abandoned them, that they can't trust obama and follow the united states. at what point do more soonny co...

Weapon city crown prince who has been the bribing force. he is a new and unpredictable force. the u.s. doesn't quiet understand him. in iran we're seeing the hard liners are really at war with the president. they're doing everything they can to squeeze his freedom of movement. there's two factors here pushing the situation more towards confrontation and danger. >> all right. david, thank you. bill neely, thank you very much. richard, stay with us if you can. we'll be right back.

They should challenge from those that are not soonnies. this is a way of going after them and this is a statement domestically and regional about how pure the saudis are. it's also pushed back against iran. >> and by the way, he's talking not so much about the executions as much as cutting off relations with iran. >> this is a fault line. it gets more and more denounced. it's a persian saudi one. there's also the soonny. the two are different but con flated. what you're going to see is this is now going to effect every single dispute in the region from syria to yemen to internal stability. jus...

Israelis in terms of our intelligence because by the way, we rely a great deal on a real depth of knowledge that the israelis have in the region generally and about the iranian program in particular. so i have to tell you, i think it's pretty dangerous, the game the bilateral game that's getting played between the administration and israel right now. >> is that military option at all realistic at this point, david? remember the israelis did blow up the iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981. they blew up a syrian potential nuclear reactor but is that realistic for the u.s. to launch a strike like that?...