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Iran's foreign ministry spokesman says the alarm has been sounded for the occupying Israeli regime and its Western backers, enumerating key recent developments in support of the Palestinian cause.
Ousted benjamin netanyahu last year collapsed in june with the upcoming vote, netanyahu, already the longest serving prime minister in israel's history, has another shot at power. in his time out of power, he wrote a memoir called "bb, my story" and he joins me from jerusalem. welcome, sir. >> good to be with you, fareed. >> let me ask you about one of the central issues of your time in office, and that is the abraham accords and the more broad approach with the moderate arabs. for a long time, people believed in the middle east that unless you could get anything done on the palestinian issue,...
Policy of standing up to iranian aggression, which threatens them, not as much, but not much less than it threatens us. and i think they will be assured of that if i'm re-elected. >> you don't think they will require any movement on the israeli/palestinian issue? >> perhaps. but i think they recognize too that if you give the palestinians a veto, we're not going to have peace. >> let me ask you about the iran deal. you were very influential of getting donald trump to pull out of the iran deal. at the time, and the iaea and israeli intelligence, everyone believes that iran was adhering to the d...
I'll say it anyway. there's no way that the accords with the gulf states would have happened without the approval of saudi arabia. so saudi arabia is inching its way towards normalization. i think that's enroute. that will be my chief diplomatic goal if i'm re-elected, as i hope i will be in a few weeks. they have to have the confidence that israel is continuing the policy of standing up to iranian aggression, which threatens them, not as much, but not much less than it threatens us. and i think they will be assured of that if i'm re-elected. >> you don't think they will require any movement o...
>> let me ask you about one of the central issues of your time in office, and that is the abraham accords and the more broad approach with the moderate arabs. for a long time, people believed in the middle east that unless you could get anything done on the palestinian issue, the israeli/palestinian issue, you could not make peace with the arabs. actually, what you did was reverse that. you and the gulf states in a sense. what do you think changed? was it that the palestinian issue has just declined, because there was a time when you go back to nasser and people like that, where it was the cen...