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going to make much headway here. ian? i think that trump s position towards iran and north korea are pretty similar. just we re in a different stage of the cycle. at the beginning, trump was every bit as hard towards north korea as he is right now on iran, but as soon as the north koreans were willing to show that they re willing to engage with him directly, suddenly he s best pals. do i think he could best pals with the iranians if they were willing to accept him at his word in saying i m prepared to engage with you with no preconditions. i m opening diplomacy. obama wouldn t do that. he had kerry meet with zarif, but donald trump would be willing to do that. he would be the first at this that would so i take tom completely right that we have been hitting them hard. much harder for the iranians to respond now because they have domestic politics and the north koreans don t. but that offer that could be placed on the table is still
invitations to meet with kim jong-un, his tweets to iran take a very different tone. on tuesday, he wrote, any attack by iran on anything american will be met with great and overwhelming force in some areas overwhelming will mean obliteration. how does iran receive such threats? well, joining me now is iran s ambassador to the united nations, majid takht ravanchi. ambassador, a pleasure to have you on. iran s response in general, to that particular one, has been to say particularly because the trump administration has now imposed sanctions directly on the supreme leader that there is no prospect of talks with the united states. why rule out the prospect of talks? whatever trump says there s a lot of rhetoric, but he s willing to cut a deal it seems. why not keep the possibility open? first of all, i should say that the talks and threats are mutually exclusive.
made clear his policy when it comes to middle east peace is a strong, vibrant state of israel. the palestinians are trying to be bullied into accepting that new status quo. but that is not middle east peace. that is peace on president trump s and president netanyahu s terms. they re deciding that it is better to work with israel and to work with israel to fight iran than it is to fight with israel over the palestinians. palestinians are being left by the wayside as part of the new cost benefit calculation and when we think about israel s long term security, if president trump keeps bullying the palestinians and we do get a de facto one state solution that benefits israel that will not remove the threat from iranian proxies in palestinian territories and that may not be in the long term security interests of israel. so president trump has been clear on his policy when it comes to israel. and what we re seeing is the arab states again choosing to fight iran rather than to
by iran on anything american will be met with great and overwhelming force in some areas overwhelming will mean obliteration. how does iran receive such threats? well, joining me now is iran s ambassador to the united nations, majid takht ravanchi. ambassador, a pleasure to have you on. iran s response in general, to that particular one, has been to say particularly because the trump administration has now imposed sanctions directly on the supreme leader that there is no prospect of talks with the united states. why rule out the prospect of talks? whatever trump says there s a lot of rhetoric, but he s willing to cut a deal it seems. why not keep the possibility open? first of all, i should say that the talks and threats are mutually exclusive. you cannot start a dialogue with somebody via he or she is trying to intimidate you or