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Damning but it's not accepted by much of the world and so i think there will be an ongoing investigation that a lot of countries will be interested in in seeing further details if you run was behind these attacks why would they why wouldn't they say. well iran has often engaged in attacks with plausible deniability that was true in some of the attacks by its proxy forces whether in iraq lebanon or afghanistan the one big question of course is why would this have happened against a japanese tanker at the very day that the japanese prime minister made his 1st trip to iran in 40 years since the r...

Damning but it's not accepted by much of the world and so i think there will be an ongoing investigation that a lot of countries will be interested in in seeing further details if you run was behind these attacks why would they why wouldn't they say so. well iran has often engaged in attacks with plausible deniability that was true and some of the attacks by its proxy forces whether in iraq or lebanon or afghanistan they're one big question of course is why would this have happened against a japanese tanker at the very day that the japanese prime minister made his 1st trip to iran in 40 years ...

Collapse. they collapsed the government when the prime minister was in the oval office. iran backed proxy and lebanon did this. if it's confirmed it's iran. >> whether it's iran or its proxy forces. across the board, they denied they had any responsibility on all of this. but the big question is, if there was any involvement from iran. why? >> i think it's directly because the ramp up of u.s. sanctions. i think the administration is going to continue to further ramp those sanctions up. >> but iran has on numerous occasions said they don't want to go to war with iran. the united states has said...

Anything's happened or will happen, but if it does, it will be met, obviously, with great force. we'll have no choice. >> iran's foreign minister said the country doesn't want to provoke a war, but will hold its ground. >> there will be painful consequences for everybody if there is an escalation against iran. that's for sure. the united states is engaging in economic warfare. it has to stop. iran is not interested in escalation. we have said very clearly that we will not be the party to begin escalation, but we will defend ourselves. >> tom, i will say iran has been at war with the united sta...

Tells cnn new images show. it's this intelligence that's partly behind the increased tension between the trump administration and iranian leaders. but could those movements have actually been a reaction to the united states? the "wall street journal" is reporting this morning that iran's leaders believed it was the united states that was preparing to attack them. and so they were preparing. that is a potentially catastrophic misunderstanding if that is the case. where do things stand between washington and iran? joining me, barbara starr from the pentagon, and cnn senior international correspo...