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institute for near east policy. this is one hour and 15 minutes. hello, everyone. my name is medhi khalaji, a senior fellow at the washington institute for middle east near east policy. in roughly two months the republic of iran will celebrate its 40th 40th anniversary of is founding in tehran. since its inception the routine of that party is brutally crushed dissidence and avoid anti-americanism as the driving principle and uncompromising foreign policy. it s a national community responding to a combination of both appeasement and pressure, has been distinctly unsuccessful in prompting a change in tehran regional behavior. no opposition movement has thus far managed to threaten the viability of the regime. today, the washington institute for near east policy is pleased to host former crown prince to discuss the current state of regime in tehran and the prospect for political change. he is a prominent opposition figure and has consistently called for replacing iran s curr
we re thinking they just quit it got caught in their throat they were like climb climb. was good. here take color correction cause most of the fires. take a look and let s see how long it takes for n.b.c. nightly news to say something stupid this is n.b.c. nightly news with. good evening they are wildfires for california s history books hold on there. about those history books they re going to have to start being shorter and shorter because the thousand year fires are quickly becoming the five year fires saying these fires are one for the history books implies the twenty years from now the children in california will be reading about the great fires of twenty eight. eighteen but they won t because in twenty years their history books will be on fire ok. and the great fires of twenty eighteen will look like nothing but a warm day with a pina colada here s an example of what i mean the headline is the headline from the republican post california s wildfires this year have been b
history books hold on there. about those history books are going to have to start being shorter and shorter because the thousand year fires are quickly becoming the five year fires saying these fires are one for the history books implies the twenty years from now the children in california will be reading about the great fires of twenty eighteen but they won t because in twenty years their history books will be on fire ok. and the great fires of twenty eighteen will look like nothing but a warm day with a pina colada here s an example of what i mean the headline this is a headline from the republican post california s wildfires this year have been breaking records the state is experience some of the biggest and deadliest fires in its history this year that article from twenty seven tape last year did they go down in the history books how often does everyone huddle under the blankets and take to. telling scary tales of twenty seventeen years. active each year like these fires
fires are a fluke that will never happen again that in and of itself is denying climate change it is lying to the american people in order to cover up that we are promoting a system based on big oil big factory farming and big environmental destruction now you may be thinking well you can t prove these fires were caused by climate change donald trump says they were caused by forest mismanagement and. well the union of concerned scientists the effects of global warming on temperature precipitation levels and soil moisture are turning many of our forests in the kindling during wildfire season in terms of forest fires over a thousand acres in size in the nineteen eighties now this is their chart in the one nine hundred eighty s. there were one hundred forty in the one nine hundred ninety s. there were one hundred sixty and from two thousand to two thousand and twelve there were two hundred fifty. and in case you were wondering in the past month there have been five hundred fires