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
Its the anniversary of the day in 1979 where they return to to run from the exile in paris and found the Islamic Republic that took over after was toppled. I mention that because throughout my childhood, growing up, all of our relatives and friends would ask, when is your birthday and i would say february 1. None of my relatives were opposition figures, they were just average middle to upper class tehran residents. The surprising fact is most of them supported the revolution when it happened including some who were Civil Servants in the regime. That was always something with me as a warning for the hazard of political frenzies that can take over because you had an imperfect authoritarian state that was socially permissive and progressive in many ways. It was not a democracy, but in a fit of National Political madness that many people who carried out the revolution immediately regretted, they toppled at and replaced it with liberal and cause i totalitarian islamist regime and it will he
Friday. For now were going to continue with the showers that are still offshore but making progress. 8 00, 9 00 well fill in a little more. Some survived the trip, along the coastal areas, its what im thinking as far as the rain this morning. Then we do get into higher coverage between 10 00 and then we get into the afternoon, more heating and showers continuing to develop. And that means thunderstorms for us. Rain coverage 30 to 40 this afternoon. Not unusual but just with the west wind the is we start the rain a little earlier and start it along the coast so lets get to the crash with janelle. So far doesnt look too bad. Were keeping an eye on it with traffic cameras. You can see the flashing lights, westbound i4 just past kathleen road. Looks like emergency vehicles already on scene. Good news, its off in the shoulder so were seeing just a slight delay, people just stopping to look or slowing down to look as they pass by not really causing major delays at the moment. South tampa, he