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Place to have offensive launches of strikes if they need them to be but they don't want all out war. i don't think we know yet and the tanker attacks over the weekend were a bit of a surprise. it's forced the united states to come out with more intelligence, blaming the iranians, central command has come out and said a drone was down. that wasn't known about. so you'll see more and more, i think, intelligence coming out to make the case for the administration and for the military that, you know, enough is enough with these iranian activities. but again it's a question of, if the u.s. is going ...

Ohman. the u.s. says it has video evidence and now president trump's national security team is considering sending additional troops to the middle east in response to these tanker attacks. cnn's senior international correspondent, fred pleitgen, is in tehran. fred, cnn just hearing from a senior iranian official. what did he say? >> reporter: yeah. hi, ana. this was christiane amanpour who heard just a couple minutes ago said they were headed for a confrontation. he also said he doesn't believe that president trump himself necessarily wants a war between iran and the united states, but he also...

We wouldn't do it secretly, we would do it openly and talk about it. he's saying if anybody caused these attacks it wouldn't be the iranians because they would have done that a lot more openly. they're pushing back on the claims from the trump administration that they were behind the tanker attacks. iran is blaming the u.s. behind the attacks saying the u.s. might have done it because the sanctions against iran aren't working. they didn't provide any evidence to back that up. but you're absolutely right, the rhetoric is getting ratcheted up. with the nuclear agreement very much on the ropes, i...

Europeans need to do more to give iran the benefits of the nuclear agreement. this is a clear message today not just to the u.s. but to the european countries as well. rosemary? >> many thanks to our fred pleitgen, bringing us the very latest there from tehran. let's go to sam now, who as we mentioned is joining us from dubai. there is this other story we're following. what is the latest you have on the truth behind these increasing tensions between the u.s. and iran over the trading of blame for thursday's tanker attacks in the gulf of oman? >> well, the iranians flatly deny that they were in...

Even on nights and weekends. today's xfinity service. simple. easy. awesome. i'd rather not. welcome back, everyone, i'm rosemary church. want to update you now on the main stories we're following this hour. protesters in hong kong say they will continue to jam the streets until a controversial extradition bill is withdrawn completely and chief executive carrie lam steps down. separately, pro-democracy activist joshua wong was released from prison monday and immediately added his voice to the current protest. he was of course the face of 2014's pro-democracy umbrella movement. the u.s. a...