As the u. S. Maintains the pressure on iran tension is on the rise in the gulf raising concerns of a full blown military confrontation. The Trump Administration is seeking an International Coalition to secure the strait of homers which is one of the most important shipping routes in the world but iran is skeptical to iran has dismissed the naval build up as a move that might destabilize the whole region and hes calling for u. S. Vessels to leave the area america will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail the crisis all started when President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal last year and reinstated sanctions targeting to iran and countries that trade with it the e. U. Is still sticking to the Deal Offering a mechanism to bypass u. S. Sanctions. But today on talk to al jazeera irans foreign minister Mohammad Javad zarif warns while his country means committed to the landmark just 1015 nuclear deal hes patience is running out. I. Would like to start by asking you about that he says developments the naval buildup in the area as the u. S. Seeks to build an International Coalition to govern freedom and i think asian in the area how do you see it. This is a tiny body of water and the more poor unable vessels you have in this body of water the less secure it is for everybody. Based on experience presence of the United States important neighbor fleet in the persian gulf has never produced security we have all very sad memories of u. S. Ships downing an iranian airliner. In 1988 killing 290 passengers so we believe that the best you u. S. Can do for protection of. Maritime navigation is to just leave people alone dont interfere this is. Basically a hostile act against iran and i do not believe it will have any impact other than in security we have the longest course on the persian gulf and on the sea obama and the strait of hormuz and we have historically maintained freedom of navigation and security in the region along with our neighbors and once again we call on our neighbors to come together for security for 20 years see the string of events that took place in the body of water over the last few months you have drones dial and you have 10 cars mysteriously attacks which is now. Putting more pressure on the International Committee of the americas in particular to say you know what its about time to take action now its about time to stop terrorizing iranian people its about time to stop creating insecurity in the region and i think doing that will provide security i think the United States is the source of instability in this region i think u. S. Allies on fortunately have been the source of instability who is bombing people in yemen who are fighting in aden to get it is iran involved or our friends involved or are these 2 allies of the United States fighting against each other once the defense minister minister had warned against. Any attempt by the israelis to step into this and joins the u. S. Led coalition saying that this could have this is worse disastrous can sequences is iran trying to draw a line in the sand here. We basically state opposition israel has been the source of instability and insecurity and aggression and war in this region it is very unfortunate that some countries in our region are trying to buy security of all people from israel. People who have not been able to provide security for themselves their iron dome has not even been able to protect them against. Organisations that are fighting for their independence how can they provide security for the countries in the region but arent you concerned that in this particular context the potential for a full blown minister confrontation is almost there because the americans are saying for example that the revolutionary guard in iran is if using g. P. S. Interference still your oil tankers into wandering into the territorial waters of iran to seize them and you know a slight small incident there and there you go could be war but obviously the per we are. Protecting our shores we are protecting our waters. It is close to us and it is 7000 miles away from the shores now who should be concerned and i believe the president of the united sates in this region is disturbing lazing and if theyre concerned but instability they should move away what is very clear extremely clear is that we are not seeking war we do not want confrontation we want development for our people we want development for our region we depend on this region we depend on the persian gulf on the strait of hormuz its our lifeline all of our oil goes through the strait of hormuz we need stability here but stability should be for everybody be cannot have stability for some instability for others we need to have stability for all countries in the region and we are prepared to protect stability for all countries in the region and for those who depend on our region the United States is least dependent for its energy on this region it is china it is japan it is korea i think those are the countries who should be involved with us with the countries in the region not with people who are from outside the region and were prepared to work with them to ensure security and stability in this region many other countries out of the view that it was biggest problem is that its uclear ambitions its in a pursuit to develop. Ballistic Missile Technology and for many countries the americans in particular this is a red line well. And the americans are not in a position to draw the lines for what we do for our defense when our people are dying with iraqi chemical weapons when our we people were being killed by american awacs information reconnaissance information by the british chieftain times by soviet migs by french eggs or set missiles who was protecting us by german chemical weapons who was protecting us nobody came to our protection we were forced to develop our Ballistic Missiles our missile capability in order to defend ourselves that is why this issue is extremely important for iranian people because were not going to allow another aggressor to catch us defenseless we will defend ourselves but dont you see that sometimes your neighbors particularly saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates your neighbor neighbors in the region the moment they see that youre trying determined to build your own military capabilities they would say we also have to do the same thing we need to protect ourselves because this is a an area that could be explosive any time we were not building our military capabilities when they paid 75000000000. 00 to Saddam Hussein to attack Us Saudi Arabia based on their own statements paid 75000000000. 00 for saddams armands it turned out that saddam after not being able to defeat us in the war targeted those weapons against the saudis and the kuwaitis themselves so if they started a military arms race. A an arms buildup in this region this should not complain were not engaged in an arms buildup we are engaged in creating the necessary capability to defend ourselves or d. P. Period to bring their military expenditure to our level 60 responses 1000000000. 00 if saudi arabia is serious at least they can spend double our 32. 00 bit you let me challenge them instead of 87000000000. 00 that they spent last year they have half of our population best and half of our population spend twice as much as we spend on defense why are they complaining what is it that theyre complaining about theyre buying the most sophisticated weapons from the United States theyre buying the most sophisticated weapons that are available in the Global Market and unfortunately unfortunately the merchants of death are setting them those weapons will go back to your relation with your neighbors in the region. It seems that we are in a perfect impasse and that the very heart of this whole crisis is the landmark 2015 year clear deal the sea way can it still hold mr foreign minister i believe so i believe its the best deal that was possible it wasnt the best deal for every put because you cannot have a perfect date there is no perfect it was the best deal that was possible and if. President trump is given corrected weiss he would be able to. Basically accept the reality that this is the best deal possible and we can move forward but the deal can go on if the other participants if the remaining participants in the decide to simply fulfill their commitments we dont expect them to do anything for us. All we want from them is to fulfill their own commitments the commitments they made in the deed and the commitments they made after the u. S. Withdrawal if they believe the commitments they made in the deed was contingent upon us being a part of the deed what about the commitments that they made after they knew that us had withdrawn what we want them to do and what we expect them to do is to stay committed and we will stay committed as long as they are now the europeans of the same time are saying that were expecting the iranians to give us more signals that they are willing to engage ill give you an example you said that you youve issued warnings that you might. Remove some of the restraints when it comes to the nuclear deal particular when it comes to enrich uranium be beyond the threshold of 3. 00 or 7 percent is a still the case are you determined to go forward well you see when we negotiated the nuclear the it was not based on trust it was based on mutual mistrust and that is why in the we have provided provisions remedies if the if one side or the other while its the deed we are using that exact remedy in paragraph 36 of the nuclear deal so were not why elating the deal we are implementing the deal we are trying to safeguard the i can make a general statement for you we will be committed to the. As much as and as long as europe and the rest of the participants are committed President Trump has repeatedly said the 2015 year clear deal was a bad deal. And if he decides its an its a turn chapter what would be the options left for iran a deed is a deal it is an agreement its an agreement that a u. S. Government a u. S. President elected by the people endorsed we did not have a revolution in the United States we just had an election and it cannot simply say that the agreements of previous administrations do not hold so if we take this statement seriously there are 2 years left of the 1st term of President Trump less than 2 years of that and then. We will have a new president or maybe President Trump reelected so its then that you will decide how no no no no no even if President Trump is there for another 6 years are we supposed to reach another deal with President Trump that can only last 6 years that can only last 5 years that can only last a year and a half is that the type of International Environment that President Trump wants to create for people for countries who want to engage with the United States i see a rational from your perspective the bottom line here is do you have any deadline like in 2 years from now if the there is no a time for any genuine the negotiation of the deal were going to put off from the deal we dont need to pull out from the deal as long as others are in the deal we will be in the deal but we have options within the deal because as i said this deal was negotiated based on mutual mistrust and even distrust and that is why we have put mechanisms in the deal in the in the j. C. Pure way to make sure that the deal would outlast anybody as the diplomatic crisis unfolds your neighbors in the region a prince concerned. Saudi arabia in particular and for this would like to ask you how would you describe now your relations with the saudis well not not good. But saudis relations with qatar are not good. Now i dont know whats happening to their relations with the u. A. E. In in a that of course were happy that there is a cease fire in aden but theres been conflict the situation in libya the situation in the sudan. All of these are where they are in popular not involved in libya or this or that but they are involved unfortunately what we have called for and repeat is that our neighbors all of us belong to this reach we cannot leave this region others with the use reach or others may not secure us others will not provide us with the security umbrella that we need we can provide each other with that security umbrella we extend our hand and our hand remain extended to all our neighbors we are very happy that we have extremely good relations with cutter we have extremely good relations with a man we have extremely good relations with kuwait and we want to have good relations with the other 3 countries in the press but you know what the saudis and the americans for example have been saying over the last few years that iran is never has never been genuine about reaching out to us and they would give you examples they would say you are spreading a radical ideology in the region yet you use proxies in yemen for example you are building the capabilities of the who these to destabilize the region you have been involved militarily in a place like syria when you should have come to that and and looked into different scenarios like a diplomatic way out of the crises that let me ask you a question are our proxies fighting each other in aid are our proxy supporting each other in libya. Our proxies parting each other into so that did really provide 75000000000. 00 to Saddam Hussein did we imprison the Prime Minister of another country for 3 weeks who has done all of this we have been on the receiving end of their aggressions of the money they spent in order to destabilize us from day 1. 00 after the revolution they were hoping to undermine the revolution they have not succeeded is in 40 years or now isnt 40 years or longer enough for them to come to their senses that by paying terrorist organizations by financing terrorist organizations by financing aggressors theyre only creating enemies for themselves look at what theyve done in syria they finance darvish they are diversion to arm the nostra what did it what did it do to that by the same time there was say you could have also stepped in its place like syria where you have a huge political admits to leverage and convince president bashar assad to negotiate a peaceful way out of the crisis thats exact with the Syrian People thats exactly what were doing look at the situation in syria yeah it is it is unfortunate but thats exactly what were doing thats what thats exactly what we have done with russia and turkey for the last 3 years thats exactly what were doing but they came to syria not to unseat president bashar assad but to push us out they have to recognize that iran cannot be excluded from this region be a part of this region we are a part and parcel we have been here for millenia we have 7000 years of history in this region we did not come from outside or like others we are from this region we remain in this region and thats a historical fact we need to live together. We want to live with our neighbors we have no choice but we have serious bonds we have historical points cultural bonds religious bonds and as all muslims are coming back from mina. To finish their hatch we call on our neighbors to come back to what joins us together rather than to what. Pulls us apart yemen for example you have good relations with the who theories in this particular issue how can you step in and offer a way out of this crisis in yemen you could you could talk to the health is a convince that if he was in april 25th seen a few days after the war had started we offered. At that time. And the United States administration agreed to have a cease fire. And we offered our help unfortunately saudi arabia at that time believed that it could win militarily within weeks that is why it rejected the offer our offer is still on the table cease fire immediate humanitarian assistance yemeni intro yemeni dialogue and an inclusive government that is still on the table they should stop fighting they should stop fighting each other they should stop putting all of this burden on the innocent yemeni people come to then allow yemenis to come to the negotiating table and i can assure you we will do what ever we can in order to make that happen theres been a meeting between the Senior Iranian official and in the red fish about Maritime Security do you see this as a 1st step towards normalization with United Arab Emirates well we certainly hope that we can have normalization with all of our neighbors and we certainly hope that all of our neighbors can have normalization with each other there is no reason for the u. S. And saudi arabia and bahrain to try to strangulate gutter and we make it very clear to them this region is too small and too all a time for these games to be play talking about a very complex Political Landscape in the region which also brings again the same question could these problems that weve been talking about the blockade imposed of qatar your strained relations with the saudi arabia and with United Arab Emirates the own going crisis could be. Conducive to a genuine. Debate between the other side is because when we face reality ultimately in the foreign minister saad is consider themselves to be the leader of the sunni islam you consider yourselves to be the leaders of islam and people are saying that after all these years calamity this disaster this civil war bloodshed its about time for a new chapter its long over its long overdue we need to do it were prepared to do it my proposal for Regional Dialogue Forum is on the table thats exactly what you do when you have dialogue you dont discuss about niceties you discuss about your differences and i made that proposal 6 years ago i restate that proposal there is a Security Council resolution 598 which was adopted in 1987 it has a paragraph in it based on the iranian suggestion that we need to have a Regional Security arrangement we call on our neighbors in the region to join us in trying to secure our region the problem has been that some in our region particularly in saudi arabia have believed that they can purchase security from outside that they can secure themselves by relying on the worst enemy of the stomach worlds and that is history they have done that they continue to do that it pains me when i see netanyahu saying that saudi leaders are his friends netanyahu is never going to be a friend of the muslim world his hands are bloodied with the blood of muslim people look at what happens every friday in the occupied territories. This is the reality of the situation while you are the relying on netanyahu since youre talking about right a premise a bunch of intercity ago i had a lot of time in irans Supreme Leader describe the Us Middle East plan as a humorist as a crime against humanity which is which prompted a tough response from year u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei you do see the mid middle east peace plan something that could possibly see the daylight. I believe the palestinians are the final judge of that and if you look at the situation right now the palestinians are rejecting that and they have every reason to reject it because it basically it basically legitimises the status quo this is what they have said publicly. This is what. I said publicly this is what others have said publicly that we have to accept reality underground reality underground is regression reality underground is occupation reality underground is an expression reality underground is why lation daily why elation of human rights of all palestinians i do not believe that the palestinians are prepared to accept this reality on the ground and the us should stop legitimizing aggression why elation of human rights and occupation youve been sanctioned after declined. The trump chat invitation is this something that could further impede your work as a foreign minister i mean would you be able to travel to the u. S. Meet with senator potentially even is with the President Trump if this circumstances are different you see im doing my work. I had the pleasure of meeting my counterpart and ill be meeting with his highness the emir im interviewing you so i mean in todays world you cannot shut anybody you cant shut them up you cannot prevent a problem minister from doing his job i never request any meetings in the u. S. I respond to requests now if they continue to make requests from me i will respond positively why dont you see the opportunity people would say that well it wasnt so this was just going to be a photo op with no substance who knows it could be also an opportunity for you to at least listen to the man in person and then see how it how you can come up with some concessions then you say. Really. Mean really busy people i spend days and nights negotiating a deal why should they spent again the same time if that is going to hold only for one and a half or 5 and a half years. You said youre a very busy person youve been irans chief diplomat for most i think 6 yes youve gone through the marathon talks to for the land back to 1015 nuclear deal theres been the spring war in syria war in yemen the own going crisis with the Trump Administration isnt this a tough job for you mr foreign minister trying to build bridges with a world that does not trust iran well. The mistrust is mutual not with the world with a few countries. And i think the rest of the world dont trust might but its a tough job but its its a sweet optimist to be trying to serve your people this is going to be my last question to you so. Much as that if irans foreign minister how do you see the future deep in your heart when you look at the situation when we see that the next months could be really decisive in the in the region do you have any hopes that we might see a peaceful political way out of the crisis with the us or are you concerned that the potential for war is also there im certainly concerned but as a diplomat i always need to look for a peaceful way out and thats what we are trying. To do as that he feels for him as a thank you very much in the future. Kong police cars were protesters at the citys airport after a City Councils flights for a 2nd day. The internal to syria lie from headquarters in doha and the navigator also ahead markets react positively as u. S. President donald trump delayed some new tariffs against china. Radiation levels spiked 16 times in a russian city after an explosion