Welcome and thank you for making the effort to get here. Adam think any of us thought that i dont think any of us thought that the iran story we would be focusing on would be the story, the story of protest, domestic unrest, the biggest demonstrations we have seen since 2009. Whatever one expected to be talking about this week and next week was the question of sanctions waivers, decertification of the gcpoa, and efforts of congress to annul to amend legislation. That is all still in play, but now it has been cast in a different light by what is happening inside iran. We have convened a panel of our experts to discuss this issue. The protests in iran and their implications for the region and u. S. Policy from a lot of different angles. Im going to introduce folks in the order i am going to call on them. We will start with patrick clauson. He is our senior fellow and director of research at the institute. He is going to look at the background of these protests. Where are they coming from
Welcome and thank you for making the effort to get here. I dont think any of us thought that the iran story we would be focusing on would be the story, the story of protest, domestic unrest, the biggest demonstrations we have seen since 2009. Whatever one expected to be talking about this week and next week was the question of sanctions waivers, decertification of the gcpoa, and efforts of congress to amend legislation. That is all still in play, but now it has been cast in a different light by what is happening inside iran. We have convened a panel of our experts to discuss this issue. The protests in iran and their implications for the region and u. S. Policy from a lot of different angles. Im going to introduce folks in the order i am going to call on them. We will start with patrick clauson. He is our senior fellow and director of research at the institute. He is going to look at the background of these protests. Where are they coming from, what are the causes and what has been hap
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Pulse. I am manus cranny. A deal on Irans Nuclear program is done. I wrote middle east editor Elliott Gotkine is standing by. 18 days, 100 pages. What is your feeling . Elliott lets not forget as they have been negotiating in other places as well such as switzerland for almost two years and a standoff on Nuclear Programs for a dozen years. A major breakthrough. A deal has been done. We are expecting an announcement in to ours two hours time and we will get more details about what is in it. It will have wide ranging ramifications diplomatically economically especially for iran. And also regionally here in the middle east where there will be unhappy faces to say the least at the prospect of an agreement with iran over its Nuclear Program. Manus a myriad of Global Voices coming through in terms of reaction when we get the details. Our viewers can see elliott while pictures are coming through. We are seeing vienna where the talks have been discussed where negotiations have been taking plac