people jamal abdi policy director at the national iranian american council thank you so much for with joining me and lang and my pleasure. well if you are one of the forty seven million people currently using the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program to put food on your family's played each night you're going to want to listen to this as you probably know right now congress is in the process of debating the twenty fourteen budget and all of the attention is focusing on republican plans to permanently to fund obamacare but republicans in the house of representatives are also in the process of passing a bill that would cut the federal food stamp program by nearly forty billion dollars over the next ten years the nutrition reform and work opportunity act would cut nearly twice as much as was originally proposed by the house farm bill if passed the congressional budget office says three point eight million people would be cut from the program by next year and numerous others would have their benefits reduced and all of this is in addition to significant cuts that will begin no

people jamal policy director at the national iranian american council thank you so much for joining me and my pleasure well we know that virginia is for lovers and tonight is no exception liberty lovers are descending on virginia this week for the twenty thirteen at liberty political action conference the first night of speeches just started about two hours ago with senator rand paul kicking off the night artie's perry and boring was there and tells us what this conference is all about. and we're at the liberty political action conference this is ron paul's campaign for liberty the annual get together where they bring together people from all across the nation on this message of liberty they have over forty featured speakers the first one to speak to kick off the evening with senator rand paul he says the liberty movement is growing faster than ever as they united people from the republican side and the democratic side on this notion take a listen to what he just said we become the party of justice the party that believes that criminal laws should be just that penalty should be port

people jamal policy director at the national iranian american council thank you so much for joining me and my pleasure well if you're one of the forty seven million people currently using the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program to put food on your family's plate each night you're going to want to listen to this as you probably know right now congress is in the middle of debating the twenty fourteen budget and all the attention is focusing on republican plans to permanently defund obamacare but republicans in the house of representatives are also working on a problem and that would pass a bill to cut food stamp programs by nearly forty billion dollars over the next ten years the nutrition reform and work opportunity act would cut nearly twice as much as was originally proposed by the house farm bill if passed the congressional budget office says three point eight million people would be cut from the program by next year and numerous others would have there been a slashed as well. and all of this is an addition to significant cuts that already are set to begin in novembe

iranian american council thank you. nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen has given a speech outlining the future of the organization he said a stronger nato needs a stronger more unified europe and call for more military spending by the members but we spoke to former and we paid lean forward he said the bloc needs to decide on a common course of action in urgent matters like syria the problem is not money the problem is lack of political will to actually work together the twenty eight members of the european union are probably collectively the second largest military spenders in the world but the impact we haue with it is actually minimal because for a complete incapable of the military integration and secondly political integration in terms of actually pursuing common goals there clearly are significant divides all of syria but in a sense everyone's going in the same direction but very different speeds and also of course there's a reflection of public opinion very clear in the united kingdom for example that if

the president of the national iranian american council and author of single roll of the dice is in washington, d.c. this morning. dr., that you can so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> 34 years is a long time. this isn't the first time the two countries have gotten close to talking. what's different now? >> there's a lot that is actually different. you're absolutely right. there is plenty of missed opportunities between the two sides, just when it comes to hand shakes, in 2000, the president had the opportunity to shake president clintons hand, but at that point was not willing to take that political risk. what's different this time around is both sides seem to have a far greater degree of readiness at the same time than we've seen in any previous instances. what we've usually seen is one side is ready and the other side is not but for the first time, it seems both sides may have enough readiness this time around. >> we know iran is ready. this meeting has been a huge press push by the iranian government, a government long unwilling to live up to its obligations to the natio

iranian american council dr parsi is the recipient of the twenty ten. award for ideas improving world order and it's an expert on u.s. iranian relations iranian foreign politics and the geopolitics of the middle east he's also the author of numerous books including his most recent a single roll the dice obama's diplomacy with iran dr parsi welcome to the program well thank you for having me here to have you with us just a few months ago former president bonnie sawyer of iran wrote an op ed in response to the movie argo actually in which he said i openly opposed the hostage taking throughout the election campaign telling students that occupy an embassy in the heart of tehran was a sign of. courage i won the election with over seventy six percent of the vote other candidates who were openly against us taking over all ninety six percent of the votes in that election were given a candidates who were against it so saying that the us narrative in the narrative that was portrayed the movie argo all of iran being anti-american was absolutely the reverse of what

the policy director at the national iranian american council shares his thoughts on what can be expressed expected from this potential landmark me sane. you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with an iranian president since since you know the nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is probably some sort of symbolic handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a substantive meeting between both sides to actually address with these outstanding issues that are on the table including obviously the nuclear issue where rouhani has expressed willingness to increase transparency and perhaps put some caps on the nuclear program but that meeting will also necessitate some discussion of actually easing sanctions on the u.s. side but i think that this is definitely possible this is all see and chest ahead we'll continue with our special report that looks at the victims of friendly fire and. we talked before about people getting in trouble throughout

general assembly next week jamal abdi political director at national iranian american council shares his thoughts on what can be expected from this potential landmark meeting you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with an iranian president since since you know the nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is probably some sort of symbolic handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a substantive meeting between both sides to actually address with these outstanding issues that are on the table including obviously the nuclear issue where rouhani has expressed willingness to increase transparency and perhaps put some caps on the nuclear program but that meeting will also necessitate some discussion of actually easing sanctions on the u.s. side but i think that this is definitely possible. and to some other news in brief now kenya's security forces have reportedly contained al shabab militants in a shopping mall in nairobi after the islam

general assembly next week jamal of d policy director at the national iranian american council shares his thoughts on what can be expected from this potential landmark meeting. you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with an iranian president since since you know the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is probably some sort of symbolic handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a substantive meeting between both sides to actually address with these outstanding issues that are on the table including obviously the nuclear issue where rouhani has expressed willingness to increase transparency and perhaps put some caps on the nuclear program but that meeting will also necessitate some discussion of actually easing sanctions on the u.s. side but i think that this is definitely possible. the deadliest assault on civilians in iraq this year has claimed the lives of at least ninety six people after a string of attacks targeted shiite

general assembly assembly next week jim all of deve policy director at the national iranian american council shares his thoughts on what can be expected from this potential landmark meeting. you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with an iranian president since since you know the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is probably some sort of symbolic handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a substantive meeting between both sides to actually address with these outstanding issues that are on the table including obviously the nuclear issue where rouhani has expressed willingness to increase transparency and perhaps put some caps on the nuclear program but that meeting will also necessitate some discussion of actually easing sanctions on the u.s. side but i think that this is definitely possible the deadliest assault on civilians in iraq this year has claimed the lives of at least ninety six people after a string of attacks t

general assembly next week jamal abdi a policy director at the national iranian american council shares his thoughts on what can be expected from this potential landmark meeting you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with the iranian president since since you know the nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is probably some sort of symbolic handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a substantive meeting between both sides to actually address with these outstanding issues that are on the table including obviously the nuclear issue where rouhani has expressed willingness to increase transparency and perhaps put some caps on the nuclear program but that meeting will also necessitate some discussion of actually easing sanctions on the u.s. side but i think that this is definitely possible. and to some other news in brief now starting with pakistan where a suicide bombing at a church in the northwestern city of peshawar has killed fifty t

general assembly next week jamal of deep political director of the national iranian american council shares his thoughts on what can be expected from this potential landmark meeting you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with the iranian president since since you know the nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is balik handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a substantive meeting between both sides to actually address with these outstanding issues that are on the table including obviously the nuclear issue where rouhani has expressed willingness to increase transparency and perhaps put some caps on the nuclear program but that meeting will also necessitate some discussion of actually easing sanctions on the u.s. side but i think that this is definitely possible. the deadliest assault on civilians in iraq this year has claimed the lives of at least ninety six people after a string of attacks targeted shiite muslim neighborhoods

general assembly next week tomorrow policy director at the national iranian american council shares his thoughts on what can be expected from this potential landmark meeting. you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with an iranian president since since you know the nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is probably some sort of symbolic handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a substantive meeting between both sides to actually address with these outstanding issues that are on the table including obviously the nuclear issue where rouhani has expressed willingness to increase transparency and perhaps put some caps on the nuclear program but that meeting will also necessitate some discussion of actually easing sanctions on the u.s. side but i think that this is definitely possible. the deadliest assault on civilians in iraq this year has claimed the lives of at least ninety six people after a string of attacks targeted shiite muslim

iranian american council parsi is the recipient of the twenty ten. award for ideas improving world order and is an expert on u.s. iranian relations iranian foreign politics and the geopolitics of the middle east he's also the author of numerous books including his most recent a single roll the dice obama's diplomacy with iran dr parsi welcome to the program well thank you for having to have you with us just a few months ago former president bonnie sawyer of iran wrote an op ed in response to the movie argo actually in which he said i openly opposed the hostage taking throughout the election campaign telling students that occupied an embassy in the heart of tehran was a sign of. courage i won the election with over seventy. six percent of the vote other candidates who are openly against us is taking over all ninety six percent of the votes in that election were given to candidates who were against it so saying that the us narrative and the narrative that was portrayed the movie argo all of iran being anti-american was absolutely the reverse of what wa

and the founder and president of the national iranian american council, he is also in washington, d.c. tonight. thank you both for joining us. president obama didn't stay to listen to the iranian president's speech instead he was at the big clinton foundation event in new york. but the iranian president made clear he did pay attention to president obama. >> i listened wailly t carefulle statement made by president obama today at the general assembly. in recent years, a dominant voice has been repeatedly heard. the military option is on the table. against a backdrop of this illegal and ineffective contention, let me say loud and clear that peace is within reach. >> hillary, a lot of interesting stuff in that speech. what stood out to you about his remarks? >> well, there is a difference, of course, between his remarks and those of his predecessor, the former president, but i don't think the substance is all that different. i think with this president we have someone who is very experienced in international law, international affairs, both he and his foreign minister has ph.ds from west

that is despite word from the national council of resistance of iran that an american delegation has met and talked with the hostages three times. fox news david lee miller has more on the story. >> massacre that much of the world greeted with silence. controversy raged about the chemical weapons in syria, neighboring airaq 5. 2 irainiance living in exile camp were killed. relative of the victim say the amateur video recorded on september 1 shows iraqi backed forces committing the slaughter. iraq denies the allegation. among the dead, amadi 56-year-old father. >> they were there to execute. they were not there to just scare people off. they had targets. they shot every single one of my friends and my father's friends and my father. in the head. >> those killed were members of iranian on six group called the mek. the people's army that sided with saddam hussein in iraq-iran war. one is considered a terrorist organization by the u.s., many security experts now see the m.e.k. in a positive light. >> a group in favor of the democratic iran. iran with gender equality and iran that is nonn