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Thank you all for coming today and staying for the full day and for this final panel. Im brian catoulus for the center for American Progress. Every day it seems like president Trumps National security approach seems like a daily train wreck across the board and on iran, in particular, it feels like a train wreck. But lets be clear. We are where we are today on iran by no accident. What President Trump is implementing right now is an approach which is erratic, its confused but its the product of a very concerted effort to undermine what i thought was important work under the Obama Administration. Many people in the room were part of that inside the government or outside. And we have a great panel which john has introduced and im not going to go through the ....
Today and staying for the full day and for this final panel. Im with the center for American Progress. I know every day it seems like president Trumps National security approach seems like a daily train wreck across the board, and on iran in particular it feels like a train wreck. But lets be clear, we are where we are today on iran by no accident. What President Trump is implementing right now is an approach which is erratic, its confused, but its the product of a very concerted effort to undermine what i thought was very important work done under the Obama Administration to try to stabilize the middle east. And many of the people in the room here were part of that, either inside of the government or outside. We have a great panel which john has already ....
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Marxism was a concept. People wanted to die for a higher cause. That changed in 1988 and people started to respect life. They started to respect their existence and because of that, violence against the government, they knew this government is ready to use violence but they started to enjoy life more than before but now as we have seen in different cities people are just desperate. There are reports that people, the video unit showing people saying we are hungry, dont have anything to eat. We are just waiting to die and this is happening in many cities and towns across iraq so people are resorting to violence as well, people are responding to violence perpetrated by the regime through violence but they tried to resist peacefully and nonviolently. After the november protests we have entered a new phase. People still dont know what this phase will be like but it is a new phase. The government has become more militant and more violent. How would you set the stage in terms of describing wh ....
Longstanding interest as a commentator and analyst in iran. Im delighted to be joined by two of the people i think understand iran best in this country, and i will just move from my left, Maziar Bahari was my colleague as a newsweek reporter in iran. He worked for newsweek from 1998 until june 21, 2009, thousand nine, when he was arrested and imprisoned in tehran. You will know if youve read his wonderful memoir, then they came for me, what that imprisonment was like. If you havent read the book, you can go see the movie because it was made into a movie by jon stewart called rosewater if memory serves, was the name and the unmistakable calling card of his interrogator. In 2014 he started something that im sure its know youre too many people in this audience, certainly is a must read for anyone who wants to follow iran, and thats his website called iran wire which gathers information from iran, reporting, commentary, immensely valua ....