president trump has ordered new sanctions on iran after the attacks in saudi arabia. now iran s foreign minister is ruling out talks with the u.s. unless washington drops the sanctions. again, he s denying his country is involved in the oil facilities attack. he has a warning about any retaliatory action. an all-out war. that s a serious statement. i make a serious statement about defending our country. i m making a very serious statement that we don t want war. we don t want to engage in a military confrontation. we believe that a military confrontation based on deception is awful. it will have a lot of casualties. but we won t blink to defend our territory. all of that after our secretary state mike pompeo doubled down on blaming iran for the attack.
iran is escalating its war of words today after the secretary of state called the bombing of the saudi oil refineries an act of war. the foreign minister, zarif, says his country is prepared for the worst. what would be the consequence of an american or saudi military strike on iran now? an all-out war. i m making a very serious statement. we don t want war. we don t want to engage in a military confrontation. we won t blink to defend our territory. secretary of state pompeo in abu dhabi today saying that diplomacy is still the policy. we re still striving to build out a coalition. we re in active diplomacy while the foreign minister of iran is talking about all-out war, we re
explain it, the officer declined, saying might be better not to talk about the remarkable features. the president s own sense of this hey may be different than e in the security community feel comfortable with. that might explain part of this on the most basic level. the president defending himself. the biggest question, what is the underlying issue, chris? and that s obviously what the intel committee and other members of congress are hoping to get to. meantime, want to ask you about growing tensions between the u.s. and iran. mike pompeo blamed iran for the attack on the world s largest oil processing facility in saudi arabia, he called it an act of war. then iran s foreign minister today issued a warning of his own. what would be the consequence of american or saudi strike? all out war, making a serious statement, we don t want war, don t want to engage in military
because if you are a rainy and an iranian interest, why would you be behind an attack of this sort to disrupt the world market in this way? what would your end game be and certainly the iranians have suggested they don t want war. the united states have said we don t want war. the united states wants to talk this through and get a new deal. the iranians with that they do that will be another matter. the president. president trump: thank you very much. it is a great honor to be with the crown prince of bahrain, he is a friend of mine at the country is a friend of ours. we will always be with him. and i know they will be with us. we have a tremendous relationship militarily, but we also have a tremendous economic relationship, trade, and we will be discussing all of those things. we will certainly be discussing what took place over the last two days in saudi arabia. we will be discussing the release. but our relationship has never been stronger than it is right now. that is largely bas
increasing the enrichment of uranium. even angela merkel said earlier today that it will not be tolerated. this is just a part of the continuum. the troops that are going there are mostly defensive. support assets. i think it was really wisdom of the president to send mike pompeo to centcom, sort of a softer approach than sending someone from defense. just settle and wise, and i think it communicate through iran that this is about diplomacy. we don t want war. but we are prepared if necessary. i think it s a part of the continuum and hopefully we get iran to the table, because the real issue is a nuclear weapon in iran. a suicide bomb mentoring measug kilotons as a whole other level. that s the real goal here. melissa: how meaningful is it to have angela merkel come out with those comments and say not only that they wouldn t abide by more enrichment, but also that they are now joining the chorus of voices that say iran is behind those mines that