maloney, deputy director of brookings foreign policy program and following the conversation they ll take questions from the audience. live coverage is here on c-span2. c-span2. good morning, everyone. thank you for braving the aftermath of cyclone bomb and polar vortex. i m the director for middle east policy and welcome to everyone in the room and everyone joining us on the brookings webcast and via c-span at home. we have an extremely important topic this morning and an excellent panel to discuss it. we often have debates on middle east policy on interests and what the u.s. should do in terms of immediate policy and pursuing its interest and we often have debates what the u.s. should do in terms of its values promoting its vision of the good life, its vision of what the world should look like and once in a while an issue that very clearly encapsulates both and this is one of them. it pertains directly to some of the most important policy issues regarding the middle east i
good morning, everyone. thank you for braving the aftermath of cyclone bomb and polar vortex. i m the director for middle east policy and welcome to everyone in the room and everyone joining us on the brookings webcast and via c-span at home. we have an extremely important topic this morning and an excellent panel to discuss it. we often have debates on middle east policy on interests and what the u.s. should do in terms of immediate policy and pursuing its interest and we often have debates what the u.s. should do in terms of its values promoting its vision of the good life, its vision of what the world should look like and once in a while an issue that very clearly encapsulates both and this is one of them. it pertains directly to some of the most important policy issues regarding the middle east in recent years and decades even, with the jcpoa in play, and the president about to make decisions about that. and we also have the issue of democracy in the islamic republic of
on behalf of brookings and the center of middle east policy, i am the director for middle east policy and welcome to everyone in the room and everyone joining us on the brookings webcast and via c-span at home. we have an extremely important topic this morning and an excellent panel to discuss it. we often have debates on middle east policy on interests and what the u.s. should do in terms of immediate policy and pursuing its interest, and we often have debates what the u.s. should do in terms of its values promoting its vision of the good life, its vision of what the world should look like and once in a while an issue that very clearly encapsulates both, and this is one of them. it pertains directly to some of the most important policy issues regarding the middle east in recent years and decades even, with the jcpoa in play, and the president about to make decisions about that. and we also have the issue of democracy in the islamic republic of iran, and the people on the str
host posted the discussion on the ongoing protests in iran. this is about an hour and a half. good morning, everyone. thank you for braving the aftermath of cyclone bomb and polar vortex. on behalf of brookings and the center of middle east policy, i am the director for middle east policy and welcome to everyone in the room and everyone joining us on the brookings webcast and via c-span at home. we have an extremely important topic this morning and an excellent panel to discuss it. we often have debates on middle east policy on interests and what the u.s. should do in terms of immediate policy and pursuing its interest, and we often have debates what the u.s. should do in terms of its values promoting its vision of the good life, its vision of what the world should look like and once in a while an issue that very clearly encapsulates both, and this is one of them. it pertains directly to some of the most important policy issues regarding the middle east in recent years an
topic this morning and an excellent panel to discuss it. we often have debates on middle east policy on interests and what the u.s. should do in terms of immediate policy and pursuing its interest, and we often have debates what the u.s. should do in terms of its values promoting its vision of the good life, its vision of what the world should look like and once in a while an issue that very clearly encapsulates both, and this is one of them. it pertains directly to some of the most important policy issues regarding the middle east in recent years and decades even, with the jcpoa in play, and the president about to make decisions about that. and we also have the issue of democracy in the islamic republic of ir > follow also with a hash tag, #iranprotests, and if you re tweeting about it, please use that hash tag. we re happy to have with us an iranian-canadian filmmaker and activist and reporter for news week for many years from 1998 to 2011. he was incarcerated by the iran