Begin our discussion of iran, a people in repression. Im david ignatius, a columnist for the washington post. Ive visited iran several times as a journalist and have a longstanding interest as a commentator and analysts in iran. Im delighted to be joined by two of the people i think understand iran the best in this country. Ill move from my left. Maziar bahari was my colleague as a newsweek reporter in iran. He worked for newsweek from 1998 until june 21, 2009, when he was arrested and imprisoned in tehran. Youll know if youve read his wonderful memoir, then they came for me, what that imprisonment was like, and if you havent read the book, you can go see the movie because it was made into a movie by jon stewart called rosewater, if memory serves, was the name and the unmistakable calling card of maziars interrogator. In 2014, he started something that im sure is familiar to many people in this audience, certainly as a mustread for anyone who wants to follow iran, and thats his website
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Have so far registered their numbers in the cities where security is higher then we could see even lower returns coming from rural areas where the taliban is stronger so that 2000000 votes could be on the optimistic side even so that is out of a population of 9000000 people who are registered to vote in a country of 30000000. 00 plus and this compares with the last election 5 years ago when 8000000. 00 people went out to vote nonetheless the Afghanistan Government is claiming this to be a success that despite all of the predictions of chaos and violence it was able to open polling stations and maintain a certain level of security across the country but despite that many parties here will be wondering just how valid this result can be with so few people voting and the allegations of vote rigging the voter fraud have already started between the major candidates. Those who are still to come on all to syria including dont trump on the rival democrats prepare for a its doric political battl
A probation group held 2 events across the territory on sunday a few hours before the march began facing the Chinese National anthem. And in taiwan viewed as a breakaway province by beijing a show of support for hong kong people came out in the pouring rain as part of whats being described as a global antiauthoritarianism day. Its in to support it that the hong kong antigovernment protesters will again come out in force on tuesday its Chinas National Day marking 70 years since the founding of the peoples republic of china the protesters say they will use the occasion to continue their fight against what they say is beijings move to gain more and more control over their city scotter al jazeera hong kong. Now polls have closed in austria snap parliamentary election the early vote was called after former chancellor sebastian curses center right coalition collapsed in the wake of a Corruption Scandal kurtzs Peoples Party is facing off against its former Coalition Partners the far right fre