hopefully they both are i think i would be welcome they are saying at the escalation to the current rising tensions i think there are you know there s credible evidence to suggest that either side would want to warrant war with iran would be incredibly costly but i think it s also important to remember what brought us to this point and the main trigger frankly was the u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear agreement which was a internationally accepted agreement that iran was compliant with so i think a lot of the friction that we ve seen over the last year building up to this point on the one year anniversary really stems from that that you know lateral u.s. decision and fortunately unilateral is the operative word there that brings us to something you wrote you coauthored a report 10 years ago recommendations for a new u.s. policy paradigm towards iran there were 2 points which caught my eye and i want to share those with our viewers you called for the u.s. to avoid unilateral measure
a plan to send 120000 u.s. troops to the middle east if iranian actions make it necessary now these are preparations at least they sound like preparations for war and they increase the chances of a misstep suddenly morphing into a military conflict yet today might pump a 0 said the u.s. does not want war. but we re looking for iran to be a book a normal country and that s our ask and we have applied pressure to the leadership of the islamic republic of iran to achieve that we we fundamentally do not see a war with iran we re looking for the. regime to simply stop conducting assassination campaigns throughout europe to cease their support of hezbollah that threatens interests all across the middle east their support for the good deeds that are launching missiles. into areas where there are russians and americans traveling these missiles could easily kill
agreement we have the same threat assessment and so you have seen that over the last year in the time since we ve left the deal europe has taken a series of actions to counter iranian aggression not only in europe but also in the middle east jeremy hunt the u.k. foreign minister it warned specifically warned the us might that they might get something they didn t ask for if they continue with the troop buildup in the region for example obviously europe has a stake in a very peaceful and stable middle east iran has been threatening to conduct attacks so we have put in place defensive measures we are not looking for a war if there is any kinetic action it is going to be started by the iranian regime and that s the message that secretary conveyed yesterday what did you agree on monday your secretary of state and the european foreign ministers are you going to go it together the next months and if yes how well look yesterday you had
accidental threat that we really do mean what we say more we say come to the negotiating table what does that mean and usually into goshi sions all sides have to give something so i think the one of the main problems right now with us aussies is a lot of confusion there we want to better deal are we trying to get the iranians table or are we trying to provoke more military conflict and crises and unfortunately we re not sure about this certainly our adversaries and even our allies where there s nothing on ambiguous about what we re seeing right now we ve got the u.s.s. lincoln which is in the gulf we ve got the new york times reporting that the pentagon presented a plan last week to send 820000 troops to the middle east if iran attacks u.s. troops or u.s. interests in the region i mean this sounds like the drumbeat of war. yeah but i think we need to be cautious here and take
europe in the region also militarily well of course we count on europe europe is a big stakeholder in the middle east also militarily well europe has military assets in europe and in the middle east and so they re a stakeholder it s in their interests in our interests that we have a peaceful and stable middle east the problem we have now is that it s hard to imagine a peaceful middle east without a peaceful iran so we are asking iran to behave more like a normal nation and less like a revolutionary cause thank you very much ok. well if you use whatsapp and have it on your smartphone you should listen what s app says it has discovered a vulnerability that allows remote spyware to be installed on mobile devices a british newspaper reporting that the rogue software was developed by the israeli security firm n.s.o. group whatsapp says the attack may have targeted individuals working for human