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
Prism. On that one, they are the only community, the only community in the poll, that had strong feeling about its just their position on that issue is religiously motivated. Now here, we havent done all the analysis yet. There will be more analysis of the data when we look at further demographics as weve done in the past one. But i would suggest that if you look here, just at the democrats and republicans alone, it tells you that there is something of a world view that you have to analyze. Just by looking at the differences on some critical issues. Now, going back to tamars question about attitudes toward the muslim worlds ive been doing that polling for a dozen years across arab countries on multiple issues, including attitude towards extremism and al qaeda. Weve asked many questions originally about al qaeda specifically. There is something to be learned here because initially when we probed about attitudes toward al al qaeda over the past decade and a half, certainly after 9 11, wh
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Happen. Saudi arabia. Something of a patching over, where do you see things between . I wish i were in that room where they at the Foreign Affairs ministerial meeting where they kissed and made of. They have told us that this thing is no. We have resolved their differences. The feud is over. I will you wish that i could believe that. You objectively examine the roots of the dispute, especially between the parties and the saudis this thing is far from over. The main issues that they disagreed on i still there. Just issuing a statement. Things are okay now. Support for the muslim brotherhood. He knows what they will concede on. The fact of the matter is that they still have a very different strategic path from the saudis and from the uae. Geography and economics, and a very different situation. A range of issues. The dispute. A fierce regional struggle. Negotiations, intriguing for me. What are you negotiating about. Nothing territorial. Government negotiations. Of course the eastern pro