Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

We're looking for Iran to behave like a normal country.

As US rhetoric against Iran heats up, we ask whether the Trump administration is building

a path to war.

Tom Cotton and Tim Kane, senators from both sides of the aisle join me then.

The thing that has kept me most solid, most hopeful and most peaceful and

and sent it is love.

Oscar-winning rapper and actor Common opens up to our Alicia Menendez about his new memoir,

Let Love have the last word. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana, I'm poor in London. Both the

United States and Iran are insisting that neither wants to go to war and yet there are some worrying signs.

The State Department today ordered non-emergency diplomatic personnel to leave Iraq.

And administration officials say they suspect Iran was behind some mysterious sabotage

attacks on oil tankers in the straits of Hormuz, an allegation Iran steadfastly denies.

It comes a week after the U deployed an aircraft carrier to the region to

quote respond to any attack by Iran or its proxies. According to the New York Times

the acting US Defence Secretary has

drawn up new military plans that would involve sending as many as 120,000

troops to the region. Here's what the president had to say about that.

Mr. President, are you saying you to spend $120,000 in the middle income

and so long?

I think it's fake news, okay? I do that absolutely but we have not planned for that

hopefully we're not gonna have to plan for that and if we did that would send a hell of a lot more

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