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Imminent large-scale attack by iranian forces in northern israel with a series of air strikes near the syrian capital of damascus. so could that incident have played a role in iran's decision to say, yes, i'll show up? >> no, i don't think so. i think israel has been hitting iranian targets in syria for the better part of the last four, five months and have been all fairly severe. have even hit iranian targets inside of iraq. it has killed mere yayriads of revolutionary guards commanders and soldiers in the last several months. this is nothing new. maybe it's more intense than the last ones bu...

Boasting that he'd be an advocate of? >> i think so. first of all, the iranian foreign minister coming to biarritz is a very big signal because he would have come with approval of iran's supreme leader and iranian president. he didn't come there on his own. so that -- this already shows that iran is willing to engage trump. and i think before they get into kind of a big talk about the nuclear issues and the larger issues, they have to arrive at some preliminary agreements that would de-escalate tensions that have been at heightened between them. that means tanker attacks in the persian gulf. d...

Filmed by iranian soldiers. they wanted the world to know they were doing this, they were behind this. not like some of the subterfuge that existed under prior tanker attacks. what did you make of it? >> that's purpose. they are copping the americans, the israelis, other allies when they do the operation, they show it. they say we are legitimate and we are doing it in the right sense and it's under our laws. the real goal for the iranians is to show the market, to show the insurance company is that they are very serious about it and they are not afraid. that's what they are trying to do. >> ne...

Tensions between these 2 nations while russia is traditionally against sanctions they are of course themselves under sanctions and they have come out condemning the sanctions against iran as well today we heard from the nikolai publisher of the head of russia's security council that he actually has information from the russian defense ministry that the u.s. drop the drone that was shot down was actually in a rainy an air space that seems to be the russian position the u.s. of course had been tamed that the drone was in international airspace at the time and also today we heard from the foreign...

Seek regime change. i don't think the iranians -- we just sanctioned the supreme leader. i don't think iranians will think that's an invitation to negotiation. we had a negotiation. we had a deal. that deal was being abided by, by all the parties, and then a year ago, the u.s. pulled out. and now we have drone strikes and tanker attacks and talk of war. that's all a result of pulling out of the agreement. >> because there is not consistency from this administration. and, by the way, there have been comparisons between what the president did, pulling back on that planned strike just a few days ...