To moderate this extremely timely panel about the iranian elections and also about President Trumps visit to the middle east. Before we start, i want to thank congressman jared huffman, thanks to him we have the room. Also the fund and the Rockefeller Fund for supporting the work that we do. Weve got a great panel. E work. Weve got a great panel. We will start with a bestselling author of fabulous books about iran including the ayatollah begs to differ and the ayatollahs democracy. He has spent a lot of time going back and forth between the u. S. And iran and he certainly understands the political dynamics of the country very well. Then we will have a cofounder and executive director of the International Civil Society Action network. She has published extensively on gender, peace and Security Issues and also knows a great deal about iran and regional dynamics. Finally nyack Research Director and he came here after serving at the state department in the office of iranian affairs. We wil
National iranian American Council. If everybody could take their seats, we are almost ready to start. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone. I direct a program on iran at the Atlantic Council and i am absolutely delighted the National Iranian American Council has asked me to moderate this extremely timely panel about the irani and elections and Donald Trumps visit to the middle east. Before we start i want to thank jared huffman. Thanks to him we have the room. The Arc Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation for supporting the work that many of us in washington do. We have had a great panel. We are going to start with hooman majd, bestselling author of fabulous books about iran including the ayatollah begs to differ and the ayatollahs democracy. He spent a lot of time going back and forth between the us and iran and understands the political dynamics of the country very well. Then we will have sanam naraghianderlini, cofounder and executive director of the International Civil S
Seats. We are almost ready to start. Welcome everyone. I am barbara slavin. I am absolutely delighted that the National Iranian American Council has asked me to moderate this timely panel about the iranian elections. Before we start, i want to think congressman jared huffman, thanks to him we have the room. The Rockefeller Brothers fund for supporting the work that we do. We have a great panel. Hooman majd. T with he spent a lot of time going back and forth between the u. S. And ironic. He understands the political dynamic. We will have sanam naraghianderlini. Also, knows a lot about regional dynamics. Reza marashi. We will again up with a few questions from me and we will open up to you. Lots and lots to talk about. Let me begin by asking the panelists for their impressions of a split screen reality that we had over the last few days. We had a iranians dancing in the streets because they elected the elected president rouhani and we had President Trump giving a stern warning. What are
As soon as they come in for that swearingin. Shortly after the ceremony President Trump is expected to sign up to three new executive actions. A white house official telling fox news that one of those orders will limit the flow of refugees into the United States, resulting in what the president calls, the extreme vetting of immigrant. Later this hour Lieutenant Colonel oliver north will be here to respond to all of this. Cheryl we have a busy show. Get back to the markets. You have a new record close for the nasdaq but the dow snapping that twoday record streak at the close. A down day for the dow. Still settling above that historic 20,000 mark we hit earlier this week. Phil flynn, price futures and fox business contributor watching action in oil and gold from the cme for us. Adam shapiro, on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Adam, lets first start with you. Big movers today. There were very big movers today lets talk about some winners on the dow and s p 500. Boeing up 5 . Wal
The european union. And south africa taking to the streets against racism more than 20 years after the end of apartheid. The main Opposition Leader in uganda has been rearrested and was arrested earlier in the capitol campala after trying to show reporters what he claimed was an operation to rig vote and president ial election show the longterm president is ahead animal come web is in campala and joining us live and what is the latest on the arrest, malcolm. Reporter a short while ago we had the main Opposition Leader who was taken by police again and him and some of his Party Members were at the office of their party trying to give a press conference to journalists which they wanted to announce their tally of the vote and dispute the tally that is going on here, this is the National Tally center belonging to the Electoral Commission and say because of the rigging its not accurate and its not fair and wanted to announce their own and the Electoral Commissioner here and the spokesperson