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Now tehran is insisting they remove a piece of this. nic robertson is standing by with the latest. nic, what are things looking like from your vantage point this morning? >> reporter: yeah, jessica, look, this is the ship right here. there are british patrol, naval patrol investigators are here. they insist they are released. the ship is full of dye rain this. >> the ship wasn't on its way to syria. they see this as essentially written at the request of the united states holding tight to the maximum penalties. now the british are holding one of their vessels that the

Is tense, and somehow the president feels like he use this as some type of peace agreement, we don't know if that's what the administration is thinking, if this is part of a plan, or if it is based on an asusumption that they can do this and the politics of the region have shifted and nobody can really do anything about it. tensions were already high in the region after president trump pulled the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal, now tehran is taking steps to deal with the economic problems that renewed sanctions will bring, iran's foreign minister is on a diplomatic tour, stick around, whi...

The details on this story, eric? >> reporter: hello, jenna. don't let him in. the heartfelt plea from one of the americans held hostage in iran about iran's new ambassador to the united nations. 52 americans and our country held hostage by those student militants who seized our embassy. now tehran wants to send a translator hoe the iranian opposition was a member of that militant group to the united states as its new u.n. representative. we found him. his name is hamid labi. he is on linked in and boasts of his previous diplomatic posts. he told them he was interpreter for some of the freed ho...

They closed all ice skating rinks. now tehran's long suffering skaters are back in business gliding along the ice at the newly opened rink. one of the aims besides general recreation, i suppose, is to allow iran's athletes to practice for the upcoming olympic and asian games. don't expect to see iran take part in ice dancing competitions. despite what we've seen, some things are still not allowed. men and women are not allowed on the ice together. the correct answer to our gps challenge question was, c, harry truman had the lowest presidential approval ratings. only 22% of the country approved...

Administration's inability and even the bush administration tried engagement in 2003 that they were going to turn over a new page. maybe the president believed that barack obama, the noble peace prize and all of this stuff would somehow be used to charm the iranians to change course. even the president now understands that there are fundamental divisions between washington and tehran. >> gregg: it would appear that tehran has been proceeding with their nuclear program and we heard a lot of threats coming from iran. on the closure on the strait of hormuz in reaction to oil sanctions. now, all o...