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Crippling the iranian economy, making life impossible for the islamic republic. so iran is deliberately upping the ante, going after british ships, going after shipping in the gulf, in the strait of hormuz where 30% of the world's oil transits in order to get the world's attention and to force some kind of rearrangement. i don't know if this is going to work. so far president trump is playing it very cool, but in the iranian mind he is the one who started this by walking away from the agreement which iran had signed with the obama administration to limit its nuclear capabilities. so here we ar...

Lifted. because those sanctions are crippling the iranian economy, making life impossible for the islamic republic. so iran is deliberately upping the ante, going after british ships, going after shipping in the gulf, in the strait of hormuz where 30% of the world's oil transits in order to get the world's attention and to force some kind of rearrangement. i don't know if this is going to work. so far president trump is playing it very cool, but in the iranian mind he is the one who started this by walking away from the agreement which iran had signed with the obama administration to limit its...

Of north korea. it is right in the heart of the middle east. heart of the persian gulf. most of the world's oil transits in and around that area. it is a strategic place from a military point of view. and as the admiral was just saying, if president trump thinks he's going to have a do-over with north korea with iran in that his tweets and escalating rhetoric will somehow end up with a summit that's going to lead to an important photo op, it could be that he's misreading the situation. that's one way of looking at it. the other would be, looking at it through his temperament. this is kind of w...

About more than restoring the yazidis to their ancestral home, it's also about delivering a powerful blow to isis to stop their campaign. >> translator: benefit the oil transits through this route. this is one of the main roads which connects mosul to syria, which is why they don't want to lose sinjar. >> indeed the peshmerga see themselves fighting a war not just for their own part of iraq, but to help rid the world of the scourge of isis. they believe they'll need more support. >> translator: no support. it's shocking, isn't it? it doesn't make sense. >> when i was there, the peshmerga were ...

You know? >> the battle for sinjar is about more than destroying the yazidis -- also about delivering a powerful blow to isis to stop their campaign. >> translator: benefit the oil transits through this route. this is one of the main roads which is why they lose sinjar. >> indeed the peshmerga see themselves fighting a war not just for their own part of iraq, but to help rid the world of the scourge of isis. they believe they'll need more support. no support. it doesn't make sense. when i was there the peshmerga were barely able to hold their own. they're now attacking and we've decided to pul...