states, know iran is not iraq, iran is not afghanistan, iran not a tribal country. most diplomats who have been to iran -- i don't know whether jim will share this view -- talk about iranians have a very strong sense of national identity. this is a country that has the oldest national flag in the world. the iranian -- [inaudible] that is mentioned, was not a mythological thing, it was a real artifact captured by the arabs and sold for 300,000 -- [inaudible] and this flag represented not, it was not the coat of arms of some king. it represented the iranian nation. the king had their own coat of arm, but the -- [inaudible] was in front of the troops. so iranians have a very old sense of national identity that transcends various linguistic and ethnic groups. and we saw that in action, that sprint to action in the invasion by europe. so iran is not only bigger and better armed probably and more populace than these other countries, it has a very strong sense of national identity that one cannot find in any of those other cases. and the people who are talking about bombin

through the steps iran must take. the time is no more shortly now shortly it's coming up very shortly where the best opportunity to eventually stop iran from weaponize it is about to pass and that gets to again the most detectable and the most the label part of getting a weapon is the construction and the operation of the center fuchsias and then the enrichment of feedstock that would be put through the set of futures once they do that even if it's another year or two for them to develop a trigger and a and marry that to a delivery device that is something that is very difficult even for israel or the united states to detect and to stop so that is why there's the concern right now and this is what explains i think these stepped up sanctions even the new round of sanctions in the e.u. and the heightened urgency that we see among officials iran's economy is significantly in trouble its currency is constantly losing ground in the western sanctions that you have referred to are clearly taking their toll on iran what happe

through the steps iran must take. the time is no more shortly now shortly it's coming up very shortly where the best opportunity to eventually stop iran from weaponize it is about to pass and that gets to again the most detectable and the most the label part of getting a weapon is the construction and the operation of the center fuchsias and then the enrichment of feedstock that would be put through the set of futures once they do that even if it's another year or two for them to develop a trigger and a and marry that to a delivery device that is something that is very difficult even for israel or the united states to detect and to stop so that is why there is the concern right now and this is what explains i think the stepped up sanctions even the new round of sanctions in the e.u. and the heightened urgency that we see among officials iran's economy is significantly in trouble its currency is constantly losing ground in the western sanctions that you have referred to are clearly taking their toll on iran what happen

through the steps iran must take. the time is no more shortly no shortly it's coming up very shortly where the best opportunity to eventually stop iran from weaponize it is about to pass and that gets to again the most detectable and the most the label part of getting a weapon is the construction and the operation of the center of fuchsias and then the enrichment of feedstock that would be put through the set of futures once they do that even if it's another year or two for them to develop a trigger and a and marry that to a delivery device that is something that is very difficult even for israel or the united states to detect and to stop so that is why there's the concern right now and this is what explains i think the stepped up sanctions even the new round of sanctions in the e.u. and the heightened urgency that we see among officials iran's economy is significantly in trouble its currency is constantly losing ground in the western sanctions that you have referred to are clearly taking their toll on iran what happe

threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that the view was might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran so desperate that they would agree to anything but sanctioning iran was probably not president obama's very first move after winning this election government officials here say the said on wednesday a u.s. drone strike targeted a group of al qaida militants in yemen and the president had to authorize that and possibly he did that within hours after his reelection the use of drones has been highly controversial it's quite clear. everybody hit by those drones are terrorists and the administration so far has been far from transparent on how they pick the targets and basically authorize executions overseas the un has raised concerns about the legality of such executions there has been a lot of criticism especially after numerous reports of civilian deaths in the meantime this administration is said to rely on dro

and iran. in dr. parsi is the author of an award-winning book called the secret dealings of iran israel and the united states, published in 2007 and has a new book this year called the single rule of obama's diplomacy with iran, both from yale university press. i should say that all these panelists are also quoted in the major media frequently, so that's another thing. i don't mention each one at the time, but all of them. >> thank you so much. it's a great pleasure being here. i think it's going to be quite an interesting q&a following this. that's my talk perhaps a little short and go on to some of the most important point to make this much is possible for the discussion afterwards. the panel asks, what ways have united states for the gcc been able to get close to some of the subject is and have effective policies vis-À-vis iran. it's a good question because it reminds us to ask ourselves whether the object is? the objectives oftentimes talk about tends to be microjet is, very tactical and we tend

approach to iran i think that. the people of iran are relieved that there's not going to be a war but at the same time are very disappointed with what the first term of obama look like because now they're suffering under these sanctions and it's not a very hopeful situation probably not overly optimistic one way or the other jamal abdi policy director of the national iranian american council thanks so much for joining us here. and now onto a story from chicago where a federal appeals court ruled on how responsible government higher ups like donald rumsfeld are for their actions of their underlings back in two thousand and six two american military contractors donald vance and nathan are tell claims they were detained and tortured in iraq after they accuse their iraqi run employer of illegally running guns the quote interrogation methods used on vance an air tel allegedly included solitary confinement sustained loud music extreme temperatures and so-called walling in which the men were blindfolded and walked into wa

iran, syria. evolution of the arab spring and we have number of fundamental changes that is going on in the distribution of the economy and china, conditions in russia. there are a number of problems anew environment. we have not developed a coherent approach because in the first term you learn your job. that is the challenge that the administration is facing. >> people look to the united states for leadership. they look to us because we have for so long been in a position where we've been able because of our resources and military strength, because of our values, we've been able to keep the peace. we have been able to make sure that enemies feared us and make sure allies could count on us. with we step back as we did during president obama's first term and i'm afraid we're going to do the next term ease back and you see when there a vacuum. people that don't share our interests diving into that vacuum. >> i traveled all over the middle east. every leader i talked to believe the united states is w

there are many jews living in iran with whom we are very close. there are some muslims that marry into jewish families or marry christians. we have no such problems. >> people would be surprised -- people will be surprised you say that, mr. president. they will like you for saying that. >> translator: of course, i think none of us should represent the whole population of the united states. but we believe that color, religion, native tongue, ethnic background should create differences or distances between people nor should it be the sole reason to bring people closer together. it has always been like this. >> when we come back, a question i can promise you mahmoud ahmadinejad has never been asked before. wait till you hear how he answers it. i ask every guest one question. i'm going to ask you. just because i'm amused by your response. how many times in your life, mr. president, have you been properly in love? things have been a little strange. (sfx: sound of piano smashing) roadrunner: meep meep. meep meep? (sfx: loud thud sound) awhat strange pla

as dennis said, iran is critical. you went through the main reasons why iran is so focused op our attention, on why we have so much attention on it. i would just like to add that in looking at the breath as well as the depth of the problem with iran, it's impact on nonproliferation, regional state, oil markets, the world economy, which is dependent upon the price of oil, our relations with israel, the role of the security council, and our role in the security council in the u.n. system. almost everything that's important is at stake with this. this is the most critical and most dangerous situation that the administration will be facing in the next year. looking at it, though, and while this year is critical, as den sis said, we have to realize this is not all about some misunderstanding or some fixable problem with iran not getting it about itself civil nuclear program or colliding with the international community. these are all manifestations of the long term confrontation that we, and the rest of the west and the re

less than a year later saddam hussein invaded iran to gain access to iran's oil and trade routes and the gulf the result was one of the longest and most tragic conventional wars of the twentieth century all the while the us was supporting saddam with money weapons intelligence even after learning that the iraqi military was using chemical weapons against iranian and its own citizens. fast forward to today iran is completely isolated and being closed in by the u.s. military take a look at this map the country is completely surrounded by u.s. bases its economy is in shambles because of crippling u.s. sanctions and just over the last year the u.s. has sponsored assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists and gauged in cyber warfare against their infrastructure sent drones to spy on the country and these are just the things that we know about so i'll ask again just who is threatening who i want you to picture this scenario if you were on had staged a coup fifty years ago in the u.s. to install probably ronnie and dictator if you run had unmatched military influence in mexico and canada

must swallow is talking about iran change in iran. it is up to the iranian people, reformists, the people who like to change the society. it's not the united states which should make a regime change. therefore i think to establish diplomatic it relations. why run a dialogue with iran via switzerland? wonderful diplomatic, wonderful people, still you have to have -- why not take -- have the courage to talk to the other guy and try to establish relations? do not send information through newspapers or brussels or other places. u.s. should establish its own direct dialogue. so that's the one thng. -- thifpblgt the in-- thing. the inspections, i think it is almost too simple to be true. should recognize iran's right to enrichment technology. but we should also start a gradual process of lifting the sanctions, economic and other. of course these shouldn't be for free. it must be an intrusive, permanent, monitoring system, including an early warning system inside iran's nuclear establishment. this -- i will talk later about how it should be

is a mute clear program that america knows well is iran does not have a nuclear weapons program and i think your viewers should know there's a iran didn't find it want to have a bomb a nuclear bomb it would follow the path of south africa apartheid south africa which got its nuclear bombs with help from israel without an operating nuclear power plants so i don't believe that iran would intentionally put this off in the spotlight the subject is solved sanctions. so that he can guide the world and allow them to and in reality pursue a bomb that is not in was in tears as iran has. does need its nuclear power and it needs the medical isotopes. of the world's news this hour an explosion in pakistan has left at least one person dead and fourteen others injured witnesses say a suicide bomber rammed a truck loaded with explosives into the headquarters of local security forces in corruption the powerful blast a collapsed part of the building and triggered a fire which took over an hour to bring under control of the suspected taliban attack occurred as the city rose dozens of foreign delegate

iran and many other countries. to survive if you survive the cold without the support all on the other hand could you argue that considering the fact there's been so much bigger and by the opposition and the fact that the situation is getting more dire day by day i mean could you envisage vision a future where perhaps some of the out of as the opposition is blamed on the continuing violence the opposition is one thing but the opposition hasn't really been able to get together and move forward either. yes that's true but do you have any unified opposition in the entire world of course not and everybody is asking the opposition to come in one correlation and coalitions are always weak by nature and they fall apart in front of the tough challenges and we are in front of a very very tough crisis so i think the focus here should not be on unifying the opposition first of all we should stop the violence and that indeed those require the to stop the smuggling of the weapon inside syria and stop the fight but also we need

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iran in my judgment and the people responsible in iran for this criminal act ought to be condemned by all law loving decent people of the world. >> when we come back on a second look, why the military mission to rescue the hostages failed. how americans were held hostage at the gas pump. >>> on a second look tonight, we remember the iranian hostage crisis. 52 americans taken captive on november 4, 1979 at the american embassy in tehran. the u.s. mounted a secret military rescue operation, it failed. here's our coverage now as details of that mission emerged. >> the rescue attempt began late thursday when eight hh5083 took off the coast of iran carrying about 90commandos they flew northwest to the town of cabas about 300 miles from tehran. the key of the operation was the helicopter. six had to make it through. but a sand storm disabled three of them leaving only five. they landed at the desert staging point where they were met by 6c130 carbo planes. the pentagon refused to say where those planes came from. defense officials say the aircrafts flew in and were not detected a bus with 50

less than a year later saddam hussein invaded iran to gain access to iran's oil and trade routes in the gulf the result was one of the longest and most tragic conventional wars of the twentieth century all the while the us was supporting saddam with money weapons intelligence even after learning that the iraqi military was using chemical weapons against iranian and its own citizens. fast forward to today iran is completely isolated and being closed in by the u.s. military take a look at this map the country is completely surrounded by u.s. bases its economy is in shambles because of crippling u.s. sanctions and just over the last year the u.s. has sponsored assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists and gauged in cyber warfare against their infrastructure sent drones to spy on the country and these are just the things that we know about so i'll ask again just who is threatening who i want you to picture this scenario if you ron had staged a coup fifty years ago in the u.s. to install a pro iranian dictator if you ron had unmatched military influence in mexico and canada if you wer

there are many jews living in iran with whom we are very close. there are some muslims that marry into jewish families or marry christians. we have no such problems. >> people would be surprised -- people will be surprised you say that, mr. president. they will like you for saying that. >> translator: of course, i think none of us should represent the whole population of the united states. but we believe that color, religion, native tongue, ethnic background should create differences or distances between people nor should it be the sole reason to bring people closer together. it has always been like this. >> when we come back, a question i can promise you mahmoud ahmadinejad has never been asked before. wait till you hear how he answers it. i ask every guest one question. i'm going to ask you. just because i'm amused by your response. how many times in your life, mr. president, have you been properly in love? wooohooo....hahaahahaha! oh...there you go. wooohooo....hahaahahaha! i'm gonna stand up to her! no you're not. i know. you know ronny folks

opposition they don't want to be part of iran the rejecting any connection with iran. iran is using a media to support their opposition's movement but. beyond that there is no. no no no no tangible things and the ground we don't want to be part of your own we don't want any help from iran we want to be an independent part of the arab world that we want. a civil democratic country and dependant definitely we have to solve it with the ruling family and the rest of the content of the people of bahrain and i think this could be done just through a serious dialogue reaching to the serious reform. beyond that all of us will lose the government will lose the people of bahrain will lose a position will lose and even the supervisor was a very callous and britons and this is the support for the lose because it is very strategic location of the water here in the. gulf for kelly thank you for your time think of your thoughts opposition activists a life in one of the roads ok thank you. libya's describes many things but have you ever considered it as a holiday hotspot will believe

less than a year later saddam hussein invaded iran to gain access to iran's oil and trade routes in the gulf the result was one of the longest and most tragic conventional wars of the twentieth century all the while the us was supporting saddam with money weapons intelligence even after learning that the iraqi military was using chemical weapons against the iranians and its own citizens fast forward to today iran is completely isolated and being closed in by the u.s. military take a look at this map the country is completely surrounded by u.s. bases its economy is in shambles because of crippling u.s. sanctions and just over the last year the u.s. has sponsored assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists and gauged in cyber warfare against their infrastructure sent drones to spy on the country and these are just the things that we know about so. i'll ask again just who is threatening who i want you to picture this scenario if you ron had staged a coup fifty years ago in the us to install a pro iranian dictator if you ron had unmatched military influence in mexico and canada if you

iran, syria. evolution of the arab spring and we have number of fundamental changes that is going on in the distribution of the economy and china, conditions in russia. there are a number of problems anew environment. we have not developed a coherent approach because in the first term you learn your job. that is the challenge that the administration is facing. >> people look to the united states for leadership. they look to us because we have for so long been in a position where we've been able because of our resources and military strength, because of our values, we've been able to keep the peace. we have been able to make sure that enemies feared us and make sure allies could count on us. with we step back as we did during president obama's first term and i'm afraid we're going to do the next term ease back and you see when there a vacuum. people that don't share our interests diving into that vacuum. >> i traveled all over the middle east. every leader i talked to believe the united states is w

there are many jews living in iran with whom we are very close. there are some muslims that marry into jewish families or marry christians. we have no such problems. >> people would be surprised -- people will be surprised you say that, mr. president. they will like you for saying that. >> translator: of course, i think none of us should represent the whole population of the united states. but we believe that color, religion, native tongue, ethnic background should create differences or distances between people nor should it be the sole reason to bring people closer together. it has always been like this. >> when we come back, a question i can promise you mahmoud ahmadinejad has never been asked before. wait till you hear how he answers it. i ask every guest one question. i'm going to ask you. just because i'm amused by your response. how many times in your life, mr. president, have you been properly in love? folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. how happy, ronny? happier than gallagher at a farmers' market. get hap

it was flying 16 nautical files off the coast of iran in international waters between iran and kuwait over the arabian sea. the drone was carrying out a routine surveillance mission much the maritime straits according to pentagon spokesman george little. >> the u.s. limit aircraft conducting routine surveillance was intercepted by iranian aircraft and was fired upon with guns. the incidents occurred over international waters. approximately 16 nautical miles off the iranian coastline. the mc-1 was not hit and returned to its base safely. >> reporter: the pentagon says it did not release information about this drone and the iranians firing on the drone, it's the first time ever a u.s. drone has been fired on by iranian fighter jets. they say they didn't release information on it last week in the days before the election because it was on quota classified mission. the u.s. government has protested to iran through the state department and the swiss delegation that represents the u.s. inside tehran. megyn: the class fried mission is now over? it's only a week later. >> reporter: the reason

there are many jews living in iran with whom we are very close. there are some muslims that marry into jewish families or marry christians. we have no such problems. >> people would be surprised -- people will be surprised you say that, mr. president. they will like you for saying that. >> translator: of course, i think none of us should represent the whole population of the united states. but we believe that color, religion, native tongue, ethnic background should create differences or distances between people nor should it be the sole reason to bring people closer together. it has always been like this. >> when we come back, a question i can promise you mahmoud ahmadinejad has never been asked before. wait till you hear how he answers it. i ask every guest one question. i'm going to ask you. just because i'm amused by your response. how many times in your life, mr. president, have you been properly in love? ñ? so what do you think? basic. at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> i as

. >> the president's iran policy lacks credibility. >> we are not going to let iran get a nuclear weapon. >> the question is whether or not president obama's defense budget is big enough to deal with the major crises and potential challenges the united states faces around the world. >> as far as the mideast is concerned this president's national security policy has been a failure. >> arrogance and dishonesty is breathtaking. gentleman you have to understand what is going on. there is a circle the wagon operation around bay bridge that nobody is going to penetrate. >> the president: close contact with turkey and jordan that immediately border syria and obviously, israel which is having already grave concerns as we do, about movements of chemical weapons that might occur in such a chaotic atmosphere. >> are we better off in the middle east now than we were four years ago? absolutely not. why? because the policies of the administration and the way it has been handling itself. >> we a president of the united states, apologizes to religious fanatics while they are killing young americans, thi

it is an effort to put an end to iran's gas for gold trade with turkey. that is one of the stories we were one of the first to report on "money." stopping hundreds of millions of dollars of gold going to iran each month could add a crippling new twist to the economy. here to discuss the impact. michael rubin, iranian expert used to work at the pentagon. now work at the american enterprise institute. thanks for coming on the show. >> thanks for having me. melissa: do you think they will be successful in this? do you think sanctions aimed at ending flow of gold into iran will really work first of all? >> sanctions itself isn't going to reverse the determination of iran to, get a nuclear weapons capability. but what we're doing is applying increasingly amounts of pressure on iran and about a year ago the senate voted 100-0 to impose banking sanctions on iran and there is very little from which we can get such bipartisan unty. what happens is iran started sending oil, sending gas to turkey in exchange for gold and so what the cop guess is doing now, again wit

you may not like iran. iran has lots of problems. this is not about iran. this is about achieving our diplomatic objectives and they abide by their own obligations. the question is, can you find a deal that works? and so that's why i think -- there's not going to be any grand bargain here. people are not in a mood for a grand bargain. i don't think we should go to the smallest possible bargain either. there's something in between. part of that, again, is doing something that demonstrates seriousness, something the other side is not expecting as a way to break the psychological imbass as well as the diplomatic impasse. >> all right. let's switch over to a couple of questions that have come in here about the -- >> can i ask you a question? >> of course. go ahead. >> how would you go about selling that to the congress? even the hard position that congress is taking regarding u.s.-iran relations, how will the legislature accept such a step and such a proposal? >> you are not supposed to ask questions. [laughter] first of all, i think this this falls more on the

approach to iran i think that. the people of iran are relieved that there's not going to be a war but at the same time are very disappointed with what the first term of obama look like because now they are suffering under these sanctions and it's not a very hopeful situation probably not overly optimistic one way or the other jamal obviously policy director of the national iranian american council thanks so much for joining us. and that was story from chicago where a federal appeals court ruled on how responsible government higher ups like for example donald rumsfeld are for their actions of their underlings back in two thousand and six two american military contractors donald vance and nathan or tell claim they were detained and tortured in iraq after they accuse their iraqi run employer of illegally running guns the quote interrogation methods used on vance in our intel allegedly included solitary confinement extreme temperatures and so-called walling in which the men were blindfolded and walked into walls vance

drone flying near iran's border last week are going to count has more. president obama's first moves after he won reelection have pretty much indicated that in the next four years he will aggressively pursue the idea of the u.s. being the world police they've ministration as impose financial sanctions against the iranian officials will the u.s. blames for jamming satellite broadcast and blocking internet access any rain that comes on top of a whole bunch of other sanctions that have been put in place by the u.s. which proved to be crippling for the iranian economy and the population there is suffering a great deal because of that while campaigning president obama indicated that he didn't want to go to war with iran but that he would continue the sanctions policy and that's what he's doing we've heard reports that the obama administration might engage in direct talks with iran at some point but there has been no confirmation of that. threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that the u.s. might be playing a good cop bad

less than a year later saddam hussein invaded iran to gain access to iran's oil and trade routes and the gulf the result was one of the longest and most tragic conventional wars of the twentieth century all the while the us was supporting saddam with money weapons intelligence even after learning that the iraqi military was using chemical weapons against iranians and its own citizens. fast forward to today iran is completely isolated and being closed in by the u.s. military take a look at this map the country is completely surrounded by u.s. bases its economy is in shambles because of crippling u.s. sanctions and just over the last year the u.s. has sponsored assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists and gauged in cyber warfare against their infrastructure sent drones to spy on the country and these are just the things that we know about so i'll ask again just who is threatening who i want you to picture this scenario if you ron had staged a coup fifty years ago in the u.s. to install a pro iranian dictator if you ron had unmatched military influence in mexico and canada if you we

iran is behind it all because hezbollah and hamas are clients of iran. iran is thinking of israeli strike on the nuclear program. saying to israel we are going to arm hamas. it will rain rocket on tell avive from the south. hezbollah is invulnerable in the north. put you in a situation of disastrous attack if you attack us. even before iran retaliates directly. this is all about iran and israel. iran trying to maneuver israel a corner it can't attack. >> shannon: given what charles said and what we know of hamas' stated intentions are who thinks cease-fire is fool's air to this point? >> highly unlikely. >> it's the goal but i think it's unlikely, too. >> a point where hamas thinks it cannot achieve its object is, of immunity and then it will realize that it has to stop now. but it will start again in the month or two. or a year or two. >> shannon: all right. panel, stick around. next up the latest on the deadly benghazi terror attacks about all the different investigations in to that. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's that time of year again. medicare open en

we know where iran is. they are arming the hamas, missiles or a lot of them seem to come out of iran. in essence, it seems to me that something pro joked by iran and encouraged by egypt and turkey by immediately taking the side of hamas which is extraordinary. >> greta: so, with hamas in order to get them to step down from its firing rockets into israel and doing provocative, take at hamas. why in the world they are going reach with truce. they are consumed with hatred toward israel. they were very tight and close to iran. today they identified six people who they felt were conspiring with the israelis. they executed them and dragged one body through the streets. they used civilians as shields. where in the world is if i do strike a temporary deal, why in the world would you ever think it would stick or hold? >> you would have to be totally unrealistic. the secretary-general's comments everybody should show restraint is absurd. if somebody lobbed 130 bombs on new york we wouldn't show restraint. the reality

drone flying near iran's border last week are just going to count has more. president obama's first moves after he won reelection have pretty much indicated that in the next four years he will aggressively pursue the idea of the u.s. being the world police the administration has imposed financial sanctions against the iranian officials with the u.s. blames for jamming satellite broadcast and blocking internet access any wrang that comes on top of a whole bunch of other sanctions that have been put in place by the u.s. which are proved to be crippling for the ukrainian economy and the population there is suffering a great deal because of that while campaigning president obama indicated that he didn't want to go to war with iran but that he would continue the sanctions policy and that's what he's doing we've heard reports that the obama administration might engage in direct talks with iran at some point but there has been no confirmation of that. threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that the u.s. might be playing a good c

threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that if you was might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran so desperate that they would agree to anything but sanctioning iran was probably not president obama's very first move after winning this election government officials here say said on wednesday a u.s. drone strike targeted a group of al qaida militants in yemen and the president had to authorize that and possibly he did that within hours after his reelection the use of drones has been highly controversial it's quite clear not everybody by the. are terrorists and the administration so far has been far from transparent on how they pick the targets and basically authorize executions overseas the un has raised concerns about the legality of such executions there has been a lot of purchases and especially after numerous reports of civilian deaths in the meantime this administration is said to rely on drones more an

a second reason, a much smaller percentage of personnel were involved in training missions, in both iran and saudi arabia. but whereas after the end of world war ii, our 60,000 uniformed and civilian troops left the supply delivery business to russia, they left the gulf, those small number of advisors in saudi arabia and in iran stuck around for decades, and it's that role that really represented america's influence that stemmed from world war ii, the pro longed war in the gulf. >> host: professor, i think of the british when i think of the involvement in the middle east. when and how did they step back their involvement? >> guest: well, with regard to the gulf, the brits arrived in the 1800s. and it represented their quest to provide order to a part of -- on the flanks to their imperial interests in india. the southern coast of the gulf had been called in the 1800s, the pirate coast, and the constantly feuding tribes fused with one another, which spill out into the sea-born approaches to india, and result in attacks on india, and possibly resulting weakness that might bring another grea

and we sorry we is who is including iran including iran including all countries in the region and the international community. of afghanistan is as important as the question of security in afghanistan. if we cannot provide people of afghanistan youngest those in afghanistan job opportunities good income what is left to them is to go either to drug gangs or to join terrorist groups and money or to escape from that country go to the neighboring alias of seeking for jobs so it is very important that we create jobs for afghan people v create a good life for the people i wish at least one tenth of the military expenditure. done by u.s. forces and others would have used for for the construction of that country and that would be a huge money so if we expect. people or farmers in afghanistan not to cultivate drug we should show them a tentative base alternative cultivations and provide them with good profit good possibilities and then of course. government should also do its responsibility to prevent any more poppy cultivation and since we have been about a minute left in that interview i als

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threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that he was might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran so desperate that they would agree to anything but sanctioning iran was probably not president obama's very first move after winning this election government officials here say the said on wednesday a u.s. drone strike targeted a group of al qaida militants in yemen and the president had to authorize that and possibly he did that within hours after his reelection the use of drones has been highly controversial it's quite clear not everybody by those drones are terrorists and the administration so far has been far from transparent on how they pick the targets and basically authorize executions overseas the u.n. has raised concerns about the legality of such executions there has been a lot of criticism especially. after numerous reports of civilian deaths in the meantime this administration is set to rely on drones m

iran elections and russia. the press will go to town on any sign that the outcome was fixed and while nitpicking abroad is all the rage the elephant in the room remains unnoticed and whole policy makers in to a great extent our media and and trickle down to the american people have literally the literally think that the rest of the world is stupid that they don't see it that everybody naturally has to admit you know admire us that we're great. it's not the case well obvious flaws are met with a deaf ear and here in and year out a flawed election process continues to be the first broadcast in the us and if there's a church in our party new york. five months been closed doors has taken its toll partly on julian assange it's fear that we're supposed to be rating mental health is putting the real jeopardy reporter about online for good speed with it plus the fling with calls the cia of bosses job but is infidelity really what forced some to and rolling with the stone tough times force one of mick jagger's girlfrien

less than a year later saddam hussein invaded iran to gain access to iran's oil and trade routes and the gulf the result was one of the longest and most tragic conventional wars of the twentieth century all the while the us was supporting saddam with money weapons intelligence even after learning that the iraqi military was using chemical weapons against iranian and its own citizens. fast forward to today iran is completely isolated and being closed in by the u.s. military take a look at this map the country is completely surrounded by u.s. bases its economy is in shambles because of crippling u.s. sanctions and just over the last year the u.s. has sponsored assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists and gauged in cyber warfare against their infrastructure sent drones to spy on the country and these are just the things that we know about so i'll ask again just who is threatening who i want you to picture this scenario if you ron had staged a coup fifty years ago in the u.s. to install a pro iranian dictator if you ron had unmatched military influence in mexico and canada if you wer

it involves iran's attempt to shoot down an unmanned u.s. drone. last week, iranian war planes fired on and missed the aircraft as it flew in international air space. the pentagon revealed this for the first time yesterday, saying the drone returned to base safely. but today, the question linger, why are we only learning about this attack now? why was it kept under lock and key until the election was over? here to talk about this and the abrupt resignation of general director david petraeus. john bolton and jack keen. gentlemen, thank you both very much for being here this evening. general, let me start with you in this tragic and surprising news about general petraeus and his abrupt resignation. what is your sense of the implications for the nation and the really tragic end to what has been a stellar military career? >> just let me say on a personal note, liz, i know dave petraeus very well and his family. it is such a sense of loss and sympathy for the amount of pain that they are in. i love this family and him as well. it's a personal loss for m

no wants a war with iran. iran doesn't want a war with us, we don't want a war with iran. the question is, is there a way of stopping iran's nuclear program short of a war. that's the big question not just for the united states, but for israel. shannon: you mentioned israel may be willing to engage in that preemptive strike. do you think obama's reelection makes them closer to that or further away? >> the most important relationship president obama has in his second term is going to be with israel. the united states and israel may not have to see iran as the same threat. israel looks at an iran that's about to get nuclear weapons and an iran that says with those nuclear weapons they would destroy israel with the sons and daughters of holocaust survivors. if there is daylight between the united states and israel, iran is successful in driving a wedge between the two. then i think it makes the conflict in the middle east more likely. what president obama should be doing is going to israel and saying we'll be with you on this. we'll work together to make sure iran doesn't thr