Writes about his military career and offers his thoughts on leadership in the memoir, called sign chaos. [inaudible conversations] i run the International Security program here and it is an honor and a privilege to introduce jim scuitto, who of course many of you know is the chief National Security correspondent and also cnn anchor and the author of this new book inside russia and china secret operations to defeat d america. The book was extracted in various forms in the atlantic and f also the wall street journal and its had a lot of goodad critical success. Jim you may not know was also the chief of staff at the u. S. Thembassy in china so you know e china story quite well. Hes a graduate of yale university, former fulbright fellow and shes here in washington with his wife gloriau former radio tv news, three children. Im going to turn it over his reported around the world in asia, the middle east and he will make a opening observations about the book and then w well open it up to the
Of of as hundreds of people have marched. The voice of the voiceless press tv. Iraq, pakistan, aman, qatar, the uae, saudi arabia, cuba, venezuela, china and russia have all slammed. Ready air strike on Irans Embassy in damascus syria, yet the socalled flight batters of International Law and conventions in the west have kept mum about israels blatant violation of International Law. The leader of irans Islamic Revolution has vowed that tehran will make the occupation regime regret its deadly air strike on the iran emascy in damascus. Welcome to the spotlight. Im your host barrus najafi. Lets get it started. These are my guests in this episode of the spotlight. Independent journalist is joining me out of damascus, also with us is richard mest, hes a journalist. And commentator in vienna, now welcome to the show, now beginning uh with the vanessa, lets first talk about the what the motive could be behind this operation, some of the the majority actually of the experts and analysts that we
Air strike on the iran embassy in damascus. Welcome to the spotlight. Im your host burus najafi. Lets get it started. These are my guests in this episode of the spotlight. The venetsa independent journalist is joining me out of damascus. Also with us is richard, hes a journalist and commentator in vienna. Now welcome to the show. Now beginning uh with the vanessa, lets first talk about the what the motive could be behind this uh operation, some of the the majority actually of the experts and analysts so weve spoken to, speaking of provoking iran, israel trying to provoke iran into engaging in war so that israel could spread further instability and insecurity across the region. Your thought on this . Well, i think uh, just before christmas last year, yof gallans made it quite clear that they needed a victory in this war in order to survive, so in the middle east, so this is an existential war for israel, uh, its been evident since october the 7th, that they are desperately losing the wa
Welcome to the spotlight. Im your host beerrus najafi. Lets get it started. These are my guests in this episode of the spotlight. A venesa, independent journalist is joining me out of damascus. Also with us is richard merthest, hes a journalist and commentator in vienna. Now welcome to the in show. Now beginning uh with the vanessa. First talk about the what the motive could be behind this uh operation uh some uh of the the majority actually of the experts and analysts that weve spoken to speaking of provoking iran, israel trying to provoke iran into engaging in war so that israel could spread further instability and insecurity across the region. Your thought on this . Well, i think just before christmas last year, yof gallant made it quite clear. That they needed a victory in this war in order to survive, so in the middle east, so this is an existential war for israel, its been evident since october the 7th that they are desperately losing the war in gaza against the relatively ill eq
Particularly in the northwest and in central syria, so you know the masks have fallen, people can now see exactly who is the real access of evil in the region, the real access of terrorism, those that are silent about of this appalling attack, people in damascus are still in shock that this has actually happened, i mean this is escalation beyond expectations, so israel wants to. And the war, um, the resistance access has been trying to restrict that expansion, but it remains to be seen if if that remains the status quo. All right, now let me turn to vienna, richard, the uk, just a couple of hours ago summoned the israeli ambassador, and that because three british aid workers got killed in gaza. Now when it comes to proportionality, you tell me, what is then iran entitled to do now that its lost several of its senior. Scientists and also military commanders at the hands of the israele regime. Well, the israelis want the iranians to uh turn this into a fullblown war because it would suit