You can follow the sent live on cspan two. A discussion on Security Issues in the persian gulf, including problems of a ram, russia, and terrorism. This is about one hour. He joined in 2020 after 39 years of sting wished ella terry service. He served as the commander of u. S. Central command. As theo serving commander of central command, he commanded the special operations command. ,n addition to his current role he is also distinguished fellow and National Security at the middle east institute. Are happy to welcome them. He will talk about a theme that has come up throughout the discussion this morning, which we are all aware of that werent sure what to think about. In 30 minutes, we will know exactly what to think about it. Introduce him. To [applause] its great to be here. Thank you for your flexibility in scheduling. This little light, i gave a speech in new york couple of weeks ago as part of my responsibilities. I gave them one of these new york clubs, very dark and heavily panel
States. What is it . First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This was a good thing for the entire world, and we are urging everyone in the world to get behind what the United States is trying to do, to get the Islamic Republic of iran to behave like a normal nation. Iran vows to retaliate after a u. S. Air strike. That was a new chapter which is tantamount to opening a war against iran. I am ready and prepared to take whatever action is necessary. That inarticular refers to iran. Reporter u. S. Senators are back in washington, d. C. , making plans for president trumps impeachment trial. Their turn is over. Thrive done enough damage. Its the senates turn now. Reporter extraordiry images from australia. The country is bracing for what could be the most catastrophic day yet this bush fire season. Reporter everybody is watching and nervously waiting to see what these blazes are going to do, how hard theyre going to do, and trying to be as re
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Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
Senate return for legislative business next tuesday and now we continue our coverage of a conference on middle east strategy. And i think this counter goes of whoever is in par with regard to the presidency and regardless of who the resources available. So i think going back to what was mentioned in the Previous Panel with regard to the impact of maximum pressure and what max impression was intended to decide allegedly because of lack of clarity among u. S. Policy intention and strategy on iran but one of the argument was the position of sanction and maximum pressure, iran behave in a region would be contained. Unrest with diminished. We clery see the opposite. One of the reasons is iran continued its policy with regard to its support of allies and proxies but also its continuation of the interest. In syria with continuation, and iraq and lebanon the same, in yemen we have not seen any change since 2018 in particular. If anything weve seen a more by iran to showcase as was mentioned be