right now? i think we re seeing two different reactions from iran. we re seeing the more western friendly face of iran s foreign minister who has taken to twitter to say that essentially reiterating this idea that the testing of this missile was purely for defensive actions. no one in iran has any intention of using them against another country. they are not aggressors. they are well within their rights to test these missiles. it does not contravene the agreement per the iran nuclear deal. that s the message for the world that you re seeing from iran. the supreme leader has lashed out at president trump accusing him of ranting breathlessly and making a toy out of himself, whatever that means. he also referred to michael flynn as an inexperienced
dozen individuals all talking about, all being sanctioned because of trying to help iran s ballistic missile program. the sanctions don t really violate the iran nuclear deal because as the u.s. it has said, they always reserve the right to sanction iran on missile, terrorism, on human rights violation before, during and after this deal. the important thing is, i think, big picture, that the iran nuclear deal has not yet been executive ordered out of existence or ripped up or opened up. most people believe it s actually a good deal in terms of keeping iran s nuclear program totally visible and totally restricted. stand by. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is in the white house briefing room. what jumped out at you, jim? well, a lot of things. i think just to start on that,
individual making false accusations. you have a different take. you have the public face, the private face. the question is how does iran respond to this. do they feel the need, especially the hard liners within iran to test another missile to say hold on a second, president trump, hold on a second, america, we won t be pushed around by you. will they try to play it safe and dial things back a notch? that s what remains to be seen. i think it s key in all the rhetoric that we re hearing from both sides and with the sanctions coming from the table, nobody is yet saying let s make an executive order to slash the iran deal. we re not hearing that from the iranians either. definitely ratcheting up but not any talk about really jeopardizing the iran agreement, wolf. thanks very much. she s in london today. she s not in paris. thank you very much. woo we ll continue to follow the breaking news on iran.
administration posed new sanctions against iran today because of the ballistic missile test that the u.s. condemned earlier in the week and now there s this back and forth going. strong words between the u.s., the trump administration and the iranian regime. this could get pretty intense but give me your analysis. well, look, this is what president trump said he was going to do, get tough on iran. he said during the campaign that the nuclear deal was no good and it was weak and iran got much more than it gave. the truth of the matter is it s really quite tricky, this whole ballistic missile thing. the u.n. resolution says iran should not do any missile test but only if the intent was to arm it with a nuclear warhead or nuclear capable. this is what the sanctions target. those dozen entities and another
sort of trying to get around the edges and get at iran for missile and human rights and terrorism activities. it also raises the interesting question because iran and terrorism is basically about hezbollah now. because of donald trump s ali alignment with president putin over syria and putin s aligned with iran and hezbollah, it gets a little tricky. i think there s quite a lot to be sorted out but on some of these key issues, that kind of thing, it s kind of reverting to sort of status quo anti-u.s. foreign policy. i think you make an excellent point. thanks very much. thanks to all of you. there s much more news on this important day. the united states military has now released videos recovered in the deadly counter terrorism raid against al qaeda in yemen.