Failed and so in a way this is now what we see with corona and the way the americans are dealing with it and increasing the sanctions is of course you know emphasizing that point and driving it home for many of the people whom i had previously have not realized who they really are dealing with people way hearing here is that iran expelled meds on home front his 9 member team with their medicine and them off trying to help your country what i know is that basically the iranians have asked the Global Community that theyve published a list of medical equipment and medicines that they need all the money that would be needed to pay for it nobodys asking for handouts is currently in japanese korean and banks in luxembourg but of course its all being blocked by the u. S. So thats what iran needs iran doesnt need a bunch of old french guys coming in and setting up 4040 beds we ask the. Hospital capacity of iran is still not use we have a vast. Medical network the military the army and the revo
The International Community to suspend them all while the Islamic Republic faces the west corona Virus Outbreak in the middle east joining me now via face time from gone is dr Samadi Torabi director of the research that Strategic Studies Institute sam thanks so much for coming on im going to ask 1st of all youre in quarantine how is the situation in go home even though obviously the United States has more coronavirus cases in absolute terms and obviously proportionately. Yes actually doing quite well it was the 1st place that the pandemic started in iran and also weve been pretty much you know south korean singing ourselves since the end of february so thank god the numbers are have come down and bombed and also as you might have heard in the media you know theres no panic buying you know everythings well stocked and people are going about their lives pretty normally except for the strike of course but theyre not congregating in public but thank god its common and going well and right
U. S. Troops from iraq immediately. Can you comment on that . Sec. Pompeo he didnt quite characterize the conversation correctly, but to the larger, more important point, we are happy to continue the conversation with iraqis about what the right structure is. Our mission there is very clear. We are there to perform a Training Mission to help the Iraqi Security forces be successful and to continue the campaign against isis. We are going to continue that mission, but as times change and we get to a place where we can deliver upon what i believe in the president believes is our right structure, with fewer resources dedicated to that mission, we will do so. We also have today a nato team here at the state Department Working to develop a plan which gett birding sharing burden sharing right in the region so that we can protect and defend, keep the American People safe, while reducing our cost, our resources, and our burden in the region, as well as the risk to our soldiers and sailors. You s
An update. The fact that you have now had 2 attacks on iranian consulates in shiite holy cities within a matter of weeks this month that really goes to show how much frustration there is even in shiite majority cities toward the government of iran because of the outsized role that they play in the politics of course you had this attack last night that was an attack in which the antigovernment demonstrators they got into that compound in and they set. The iranian consulate ablaze they burned it before the attack happened the staff at the consulate they had escaped through a back door were now being told that theyre off the military is going to be sending these security cells to some of the provinces to try to quell the protests we dont really know exactly what form thats going to take there is great concern here right now that perhaps that could mean that there is a crackdown looming that perhaps there will be more violence we just dont know well have to wait and see but also that weve
Question. Start off with the administrator, everybody seems to be on the same page about the importance of cooperation. What do those words get transformed to the concrete actions like an extension of the iga, Bilateral Agreements or something firm and finding against the various agencies working together. I try to answered what you are staying. You are asking very general. All of these agencies over here, they are already activities going on in cooperation. Not only the International Space station but also other programs, agreements. If you asked concretely this is another question. For that we are looking our meeting already since now, two or three years at least. This is more important than that just the agreement. The agreement has to follow up i hope. Scenic thats right, it starts with those of us up here working together to come up with a concept that we think it would work. It ultimately ends with those taking it back to the Political Leadership of our countries are our organiza