that led to a civil war in syria and across the region, the danger is that you find reemergence of isis which the core solutions that the u.s. is better at addressing than iran or russia. tarek, i want to ask you about this boarder strategy, the anti-iran strategy that the u.s. has adopted, also is at the core of the saudi crown prince s strategy, to a certain extent the egyptians. will it work? by which i mean is the arab world deeply anti-iranian? is our arabs in general, anti-shia most of them, 90% of them are probably sunnis, you know, do you think this is a strategy being devised by a few dictators and capitals or does it have traction on the street? well, i think if you are a saudi, you absolutely have
we are back here on gps talking about the middle east with martin indyk, robin wright and tarek masoud. robin, let me ask you when you look at this withdraw from syria, is it fair to say that iran must be pleased about this, or is it really true that iran is at this point particularly with the new sanctions and the new pressure is overwhelmed and dealing with its own problems? it s economy is in pretty bad shape, it s currency has i think collapsed 30% or 40% in the last few months. how is iran viewing what is going on in the region right now? i think both russia and iran are thrilled with the idea that the u.s. is withdrawing, that basically ensures that they will keep their dominant hold, that the u.s. presence with its removal will, you know this will affect the peace process or the post conflict process that plays out next.
those are your top stories. a special edition of new day is coming up at the top of the hour and a live state of the union at noon eastern and the latest on the zimmerman verdict. now back to fareed zakaria gps. this week egypt filled out its interim government, mostly with liberals. more importantly, perhaps, the muslim brotherhood has said it would not participate unless morsi is reinstalled as president. so what in the world does egypt do to heal its wounds? joining me now, a great panel. dahlia mogahed is the former executive director of the gallup center for muslim studies and the co-author of who speaks for islam? steven cook is a senior fellow frr middle east studies on the council of foreign relations and tarek masoud, of course, is middle east specialist who teaches public policy at harvard university. so tarek, where are we now in egypt? well, as you noted in your intro, the interim government with this newly installed president, has put forward a road map for egypt
military. clearly you re right that the egyptian military has played a role here, but let s not forget there were millions of people out in the streets and this may have been a coup by the dictionary definition but it reveals how limited the dictionary definition is. how many coups do you know that install a judge as president afterwards? i think there is still some space for some democratic development here. tarek masoud, steven cook, dahlia, pleasure to have you all on. up next we re going to talk about movies, why so many of them are so bad. so many prequels, sequels, part 4s. i have a great guest, a hollywood insider to explain. suddenly i wasn t able to get the movies i d always gotten made in the first half of my career made. scripts that were made because they were good, because they were terrific scripts, because movie stars wanted to do them, because they were funny, because they were nuanced. something new had happened in hollywood, and i wanted to figure out why that was
this political process for any illegitimate coup d etat that brought town a democratically elected government. that s why there s a crackdown on the brotherhood. in part why there s a crackdown on the brotherhood right now. there s also been the implicit language about violence that they have used. but nevertheless, the brotherhood is going to be outside of this process, which throws into question this whole idea of building a new democratic egypt. this is a very important group, despite the fact that morsi was brought down, and the only way it seems to keep them from either agitating or worse, taking up arms, and there are some who have called for this kind of thing, is through a crackdown. something akin to 1954, when gamal abdul nasser essentially systematically undermined the brotherhood, threw them in jail and they ceased to be a political force in the political arena pour 20 years. if that happens, tarek, if the muslim brotherhood stays out of the process then you end up with t