Impact elections in the u. S. And abroad. This is 90 minutes. Well, thank you, brad, for the kind introduction and let me start by thanking my friend Robbie George and his James Madison program on american ideals and institutions and bringing me to princeton its my first time here at this beautiful campus. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1st, 1985. But the february 1st is the point of interest here because on the persian calendar, i was born and raised in tehran, iran, on the persian calendar its the date on the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to tehran from his exile to herald the Islamic Revolution and founded the republic that took over after the shah was toppled. All of our relatives and friends would ask me, remind me what was your birthday and i would say february 1st. And they would always say because you brought the stench of the imam, which is terrible but its true. Why do i say that . None of my relatives were opposi
Impact elections in the u. S. And abroad. This is 90 minutes. Well, thank you, brad, for the kind introduction and let me start by thanking my friend Robbie George and his James Madison program on american ideals and institutions and bringing me to princeton its my first time here at this beautiful campus. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1st, 1985. But the february 1st is the point of interest here because on the persian calendar, i was born and raised in tehran, iran, on the persian calendar its the date on the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to tehran from his exile to herald the Islamic Revolution and founded the republic that took over after the shah was toppled. All of our relatives and friends would ask me, remind me what was your birthday and i would say february 1st. And they would always say because you brought the stench of the imam, which is terrible but its true. Why do i say that . None of my relatives were opposi
Writer on the erosion of the liberal order and politics known as ill liberalism. Also at nationalism, goldman security and identity politics impact elections in the United States and abroad. Well, thank you brad for the kind introduction. And let me start by thinking my friend Robbie George and his james mattis program on american idealism and institution for bringing to princeton. Its my first time, beautiful campus. Let me extend and warm welcome to all of you for coming. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1, 1985. But the february 1 is the point of interest. Because on the persian calendar i was born and raised in tehran iran, its a date on which the Ayatollah Khamenei, is the anniversary of the day which the Ayatollah Khamenei in 1979 return to tehran from his exile in paris to help the Islamic Revolution and found the Islamic Republic that took over after the shah was toppled. I mentioned that because throughout my child
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