All seeing thousands to flee and shutting down the countrys biggest airports. Follow our top story this hour protesters in irans capital are continuing their demonstrations in anger of the government submission that the military shot down a ukrainian passenger jet hundreds have also gathered outside the u. K. s embassy in tehran after the British Ambassador was briefly detained for attending an antigovernment protest on saturday theyve been chanting death to england and calling for the embassy to be shut down but protests have also taken place across the country against the governments initial denial that down the passenger jet calling the claim psychological warfare the plane which was bound for the ukrainian capital kiev was shot down by a missile on wednesday killing all 176 passengers and crew tensions in the region are still high after the assassination of iranian general money in iraq by the United States and then cast her as emir is in teheran in a push to ease those tensions is
Inside of iraq against the will of the people in government and parliament there that is what makes this all asymmetrical and i think you can draw different conclusions about as the media likes to do who won and who lost go ahead alex and well. Heres what i think the fundamental difference is that the iranians deployed the. Range of their assets together that that Foreign Policy that diplomats they bring to get their political leaders they be able to bring in their intelligence operatives manage me people also their economic assets such as they are and they set themselves very clear objectives which they dont let themselves be done 38. 00 from and that objective is not clearly defined easy is to try to get the United States and the middle east out of iraq specifically areas where they can threaten iran the. Knowledge states by contrast what we see there is a dysfunctional government which doesnt have any kind of clear long 6 long established plan so you have different people pushing fo
An erupting volcano in the philippines thats forced thousands to flee and shutdown than a orbs and german engineering giant sea minced sticks with a controversial coal mine project in a stray leah despite a backlash from climate activists now there have been protests across iran for a 2nd to day increasing pressure on its leaders after they had mislaid the minute she accidentally shot down a Ukrainian Airline a but there have also been rally is against the u. K. By those who say its government has trying to stir up chaos and on the diplomatic front cattles a me a arrived in tear on pushing for talks to resolve the crisis with the United States dosage of ari reports an important ally on an important mission. The 1st official visit to iran by the emir of qatar jeff the membrane hammett all funny comes at a critical time for the region at the invitation of president Hassan Rouhani the 2 leaders discussed increasing economic and political cooperation and i join. Me yet considering the impo
Different reasons taran was being strategic and political while trump was relying upon sanctions and the 3rd and and the demand that the United States be remain inside of iraq against the will of the people in government and parliament there that is what makes this all asymmetrical and i think you can draw different conclusions about as the media likes to do who won and who lost go ahead alex and well what is what i mean i think the fundamental difference is that the range to the strategic range of their asses to get that Foreign Policy that diplomats they bring to get their political aint is they be able to bring in their intelligence operatives manage to me people also their economic assets such as they are and they set themselves very clear objectives which they dont let themselves be done from. And then objective is not clearly defined easy is to try to get the United States out of the middle east out of iraq specifically out of areas where they can threaten new iraq iran the Unite
Have people look wanting to escalate as you put it which means essentially having a war you see the u. S. Government forced into frantic diplomacy through the Swiss Embassy in tehran which it now turns out it was the United States which initiated it was lee u. S. And having started the escalation became panicked and saw the way out to deescalate in other words they dont have a clear objectives and theyre not working towards those objectives instead you get the impression of a very powerful country stretching around throwing bombs in some directions killing people in other directions threatening people with sanctions but it isnt coherent and. You wouldnt get that impression from Mainstream Media go ahead glenn go ahead last just going to say this theme of. Escalation dominance has been the very central strategic objective by the United States or. In the simplicity that america would be able to increase escalate when it wants and then bring it down so for example if the us drops bombs in