To moderate this extremely timely panel about the iranian elections and also about President Trumps visit to the middle east. Before we start, i want to thank congressman jared huffman, thanks to him we have the room. Also the fund and the Rockefeller Fund for supporting the work that we do. Weve got a great panel. E work. Weve got a great panel. We will start with a bestselling author of fabulous books about iran including the ayatollah begs to differ and the ayatollahs democracy. He has spent a lot of time going back and forth between the u. S. And iran and he certainly understands the political dynamics of the country very well. Then we will have a cofounder and executive director of the International Civil Society Action network. She has published extensively on gender, peace and Security Issues and also knows a great deal about iran and regional dynamics. Finally nyack Research Director and he came here after serving at the state department in the office of iranian affairs. We wil
To moderate this extremely timely panel about the iranian elections and also about President Trumps visit to the middle east. Before we start, i want to thank congressman jared huffman, thanks to him we have the room. Also the fund and the Rockefeller Fund for supporting the work that we do. Weve got a great panel. E work. Weve got a great panel. We will start with a bestselling author of fabulous books about iran including the ayatollah begs to differ and the ayatollahs democracy. He has spent a lot of time going back and forth between the u. S. And iran and he certainly understands the political dynamics of the country very well. Then we will have a cofounder and executive director of the International Civil Society Action network. She has published extensively on gender, peace and Security Issues and also knows a great deal about iran and regional dynamics. Finally nyack Research Director and he came here after serving at the state department in the office of iranian affairs. We wil
To moderate this extremely timely panel about the iranian elections and also about President Trumps visit to the middle east. Before we start, i want to thank congressman jared huffman, thanks to him we have the room. Also the fund and the Rockefeller Fund for supporting the work that we do. Weve got a great panel. E work. Weve got a great panel. We will start with a bestselling author of fabulous books about iran including the ayatollah begs to differ and the ayatollahs democracy. He has spent a lot of time going back and forth between the u. S. And iran and he certainly understands the political dynamics of the country very well. Then we will have a cofounder and executive director of the International Civil Society Action network. She has published extensively on gender, peace and Security Issues and also knows a great deal about iran and regional dynamics. Finally nyack Research Director and he came here after serving at the state department in the office of iranian affairs. We wil
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
With katie and commute with meisha. It is gateway to the weekend, yeah but first we will talk about the roads. We have an accident out there in newtown square, we will talk about that coming up in a lot of closures out there at the vine in particular. Yes. But at least that is opening up. Yes, it will. Within the half an hour. We have the heat. That will be a problem if you are not a fan of the heat and humidity it will be a issue the next couple days. Real quickly, we will check on storm scan three with a few blips on the radar, nothing major quick hitting shower. We may need to flick your windshield wiper once and twice but overall we are off to an okay start. Thing is, it is really steamy outside, and looking at excessive heat warning scheduled to take effect at high noon we will be on the the eras it takes effect on Eyewitness News at noon. Up and down i95 and those counties, urban corridor that gets hit the hardest with the worst we have to offer with when it comes to the heat ind