Insurgentsy within iran, the soviet union was trying to foster a communist insurgents in iran. We thought about that and sided with the shah of iran in part because he crushed that communist dissent in iran. I dont think most person political elites thought too much about the islamic disdents in that state. It was just kind of off the radar. Part of the reason i wrote the book i did was i was really trying to get across how reasonably so but nair rowly americans looked at alliances in that part of the world. We didnt think of islam as a political force. We feared communism. We cheered on what we thought as capitalist developed. We hoped for Democratic Development we didnt see the islamic, the green revolution that was coming. The United States and iran have had a complicated fraught relationship a long time. Really since the 1950s. Up until the 1950ss iran was a client state of great britain. But when wourmd ended and britain moved back to the colonial periphery. United states stepped
Mrs. Hajipour, do you have any news . Yes, with the intensification of the attacks of the zionist regime in gaza, there are demonstrations numerous protests are being held all over the world, in denmark, tunisia, turkey, iraq, jordan, they came to the streets in support of the people of gaza, but we want to start with the protests of the palestinians , which condemn the attacks and crimes. Palestinians condemn the attacks and crimes of the occupying regime against the residents of gaza, which is being held in the city of jenin in the west bank. According to the palestinian media, the people of jenin are praying in the street, and for the people of gaza, mr. Farkhandepour, lets continue the conversation. One of the points now distinct alaqsa goya mr alireza taghqini is also with us , i will talk to him for a little while, mr. Taghbinia, greetings in the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful. I also offer greetings and courtesy to you and dear viewers, mr. Taqvi, i would li
, at the end of 2008, at the beginning of 2009, 2000, the 56day war and the various operations that we carried out since the war of 22 from day to day, we always saw that the zionists they said that they wanted to enter gaza by land. Yes, you can see that they wanted to enter gaza since 2008, but since then, the resistance has become stronger, more equipped , and more modern, both in terms of numbers and in terms of people and the zionist regime, it is facing various challenges in the internal sphere and in the peripheral security sphere, as well as inside and outside the country. Now what he is saying to enter gaza , it must be said that the alaqsa storm operation in addition to the deadly strikes. Which attacked the defense and military structure of the zionist regime in the field of knowledge and now the zionist regime does not really know what it is doing, that is, the main battle of alaqsa storm will begin with the ground entry of the 3rd regime into gharza, and the zionist regime
Reported and known that the french have seen many people leaving their country going to terrorist training sites and returning almost on a regular basis and then they are supposed to be monitored. And we hear that the monitoring doesnt go so well. What do you know about that . Well, we know that and several european countries, not just france, the system of letting people in and out is very liberal. We have the european community, et cetera. And you have a porous borders where people could quite easily come in from the middle east, eastern europe, where theres also Training Camps come in and out and very easily come in and basically assimilate with the rest of the culture with the rest of the country and just lay in perhaps like this one. This is Marcia Kramer again. I wonder if you think if events like this also serve to help whatever organizations are involved to recruit people to their cause. Absolutely. Any success that they have as you know, any success that these folks have, this
Welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in today for jake tapper. We begin today with breaking news in the world lead. Seemingly out of nowhere Hurricane Patricia has exploded. Now the largest hurricane ever recorded. It is just seconds away from slamming a tourist mecca in mexico 200mileperhour sustained winds, 245mileperhour gusts, 20 inches of rain. And with a pulverizing wall of water that could leave the coastline drowned and devastated. The u. S. Not out of danger at all with this monster threatening to team up with another storm that has already flooded parts of texas and sent mobile homes floating away. Cnns Martin Savidge is live inside Puerto Vallarta. Martin, i mean really an incredible storm as we listen to these warnings. What are the conditions there right now . Reporter well, you know whats fascinating, jim, is the fact you look out here and this is looking on the old part of Puerto Vallarta, this is that calm that is before the storm. The air is incredibly still. Light rain