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Persian gulf area, well that was something that the iranians could agree with because the foreign minister came out and tweeted, president trump is 100% right, that the u.s. military has no businhat's there are people around president trump trying to drive him into war. saying, quote, it is clear now that the b-team, the people that zarif is referring to, are not concerned with u.s. interests and despise diplomacy. and the iranians say they don't want war with the u.s. but they are ready if it comes to that. >> reporter: fred in tehran. thank you. up on capitol hill, a decision could be immi...

Until after the election. i think he could have taken the offer he received from senate democrats to meet separately and discuss this issue behind closed doors which would have been a more appropriate venue for him. >> thank you so much for joining me. i want to go back to iran and get reaction from fred who is on the ground. what are you hearing there about netanyahu's speech to congress? >> reporter: it's interesting because there were a lot of -- of course the speech was not broadcast live on iranian tv that is unthinkable. however there was video of his speech going on and there were vicio...

Senior international correspondent. fred what kind of air time did this speech get, and what's the initial reaction from officials there? >> hi was quite the -- >> oh unfortunately we just lost fred. let's see if we can get him back. do we have him guys? we'll work on that connection with fred. again, he is reporting in iran. obviously technical issues happen. let's bring in to talk more about this speech today by benjamin netanyahu the author of "why hawks become doves 0 ssdoves" also an assistant professor at the american university school of international service. guy, thank you for joining...

Iranophobic speexch. they accused netanyahu of lies and trying to derail the negotiations going on. some said they thought the whole speech was a humiliation for barack obama. we managed to get in touch with the spokesperson for the foreign minister who currently is negotiating a possible deal with secretary of state kerry. the spokesperson said the continued lies of netanyahu regarding the aims and intentions of the peaceful nuclear program of iran are repetitive and sickening. certainly we have heard similar remarks from other government officials as well. in the meantime however, we know th...