amb.kins: first of all, thank you atlantic council for inviting me. it is a great opportunity. i always love speaking in this form, so thank you for that. thank you for such a nice introduction. always a pleasure to be here with you. um, so i guess very briefly, you know, when i grew up i grew up in bronx, new york, and from the beginning since i can remember i have always been interested in public service. i knew i wanted to work in the federal government in washington and within virginia. that was my thing. work in washington and live in virginia. so i path was to learn about government from different perspectives, so i started working in new york city government, then i went to albany to school -- state government, then made it down to washington to the fellowship program. and at that time, i was not really, i did not know exactly what all i wanted to do -- law i wanted to do because i just finished my law degree but knew i wanted to be in public service was of the program i landed was

amb.ns: first of all, thank you atlantic council for inviting me. it is a great opportunity. i always love speaking in this form, so thank you for that. thank you for such a nice introduction. always a pleasure to be here with you. um, so i guess very briefly, you know, when i grew up i grew up in bronx, new york, and from the beginning since i can remember i have always been interested in public service. i knew i wanted to work in the federal government in washington and within virginia. that was my thing. work in washington and live in virginia. so i path was to learn about government from different perspectives, so i started working in new york city government, then i went to albany to school -- state government, then made it down to washington to the fellowship program. and at that time, i was not really, i did not know exactly what all i wanted to do -- law i wanted to do because i just finished my law degree but knew i wanted to be in public service was of the program i landed was in

amb. khan: mr. daniel runde, senior vice president of csis, ambassador robin, good morning. thank you very much for your statement. as i said a short while ago, you have been a goodwill ambassador between pakistan and the united states for decades. we appreciate your commitment to this relationship. thank you so much, mr. runde, for hosting this event and sent during our conversation on -- centering our conversation on the prospects for pakistan's economic of element. i recall in 2015 you contributed a seminal piece in "forbes" arguing that pakistan had the potential to be a global turnaround story, and advised of united states policymakers and business leaders the look at pakistan beyond the security lands. -- lens. you identified planning and action around trade, investment, education, and broader economic progress. you had recommended that the united states ought to be pakistan's preferred partner. you were right then and your council is sound today. over the past two years, pakistan an

amb. green: even though i cannot be at the center today technology means it -- makes it impossible to join you. she holds a very special place in the hearts of all of us here at the wilson center. she is the founding director of our middle east program and she led that team from 1998 to 2015. this series on his her commitment to promoting women's empowerment and rights globally, but particularly in the middle region. madeleine albright inaugurated the series in 2017. it has featured senator chris van hollen, undersecretary general and exec at his secretary of the u.n. and social commission for the western hemisphere and ambassador malan verbier. the wilson center is unique in foreign policy. we are professionally chartered, scholarship driven, and fiercely nonpartisan and independent. that special status brings with it certain obligations. to not give the gate what others are doing, but instead to prioritize the most important issues and opportunities and to try to do so where we can add v

amb. shapiro: we know that they still have capability, you know, we have a good sense of the numerator, what we've been able to eliminate. we don't fully know the denominator. that is information we are working to develop, and we are working on expanding through interdiction's and working with partners to prevent other smuggling activity. i cannot tell you that we know there is a moment when they will decide that they've had enough. that is our intention, to make sure they understand that if they continue to target us and our innocent mariners, then we will work with our partners to protect them, and we will work, respond as appropriate. chair murphy: let me ask you one more question on the authorization. i agree it is a very troubling and creative interpretation of article two authority to extend protection to partners. i agree with senator kaine that that is probably not a theory in good standing. but let me ask you if you believe that article to authorities give you the ability to attac

amb. dobriansky: first, i want to thank ambassador green, mark green. i want to thank you and the wilson center for inviting me. when i received your invitation and they said it is the forum, i said when can i be signed up? it is a privilege and an honor to be part of this forum. if i may, pay tribute to you. you are someone who has stood so staunchly for the rights of all, but not only for the all but women also in particular. iranian women, afghan women, others repressed across the globe. may i take a moment and i would like to first applaud you. [applause] just thank you. ambassador green mentioned in his opening, hope. hope. those role models who have paid the way and had courage in standing up to tear any -- to r yranny and repression. it is important and you are certainly one of those individuals. thank you for all you have done. to answer your question, tragically the situation is very bad. there have been very draconian measures, abusive measures taken against afghan women. instead

amb.erbst: thank you, -- >> thank you, i told you he was an outside the box thinker. each of these scenarios have contingencies, they are spelled out in the paper. we can flush them out of people are interested in that. first i want to introduce our excellent panel here. with us online is angela. who is a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institute and a senior advisor at the united states institute of peace. in the one and only media and democracy fellow at harvard university, and of course sitting with us here at the table is ambassador john herbst, the former united states ambassador to ukraine and uzbekistan. i wanted to open it up with one question that i want to ask everybody. and i'm a little selfish here, this is something i'm struggling with myself as we look through the process of change in russia. the question is this. many of us look at russia and we see a web of entrenched patient client networks and deeply seated local pressure of autocratic rule. a lack of viable in

also joining us is peter ford, he's a former british amb ambassador to syria who joins us from manchester. gentlemen, welcome to you both. if you can set the stage for us, paulo rudy, um, how operation allox a flood uh was uh in many ways a result of the violations of palestinians by the israeli regime in the gaza strip that has happened. throughout the years and decades and how it built up to the uh fact that you had then had palestinians in the gaza strip to be under a full blockade for 17 years and then that was one of the reasons for this operation to have been executed. yes, that's correct, the the isolation of the palestinians, especially the palestinians in gaza has been increasing over the years, it used to... be that right after the 67 war it was possible for palestinians in gaza and the west bank and in israel itself, the to move relatively freely between all these different places. it was an opportunity which hadn't existed since 1948 and this was although israel was controlling everything, it was in effect this fact that permitted contacts between palestinians who hadn't seen

ambed the us israeli genocide on gaza, libya has voice support for. measures taken by the international court of justice icj to prevent genocide in the gaza street. we are honored to have with us here in the studio his excellency. the ambassador of libya to iran. it's been a pleasure having you in our program. thank you, mercy. time now for the in-depth section. although the islamic republic is marking its 45th anniversary, each successive government has played role in advancing iran's economic agenda, and that's very important when it comes to the islamic rev'. revolutions goals, iran's current president has played an important role in that regards, especially after world powers failed in their commitment, for example under the jcpoa. so let's take a look at some of the economic indicators under ric. uh, here's one sector of which we can see a market improvement and that's the service sector in which iran registered a growth of 6.2%, as you see over here for the year 20 23 compared to the year 2022, so you can see the improvement that's there, the service sector remains one of iran's l

ambed the us israeli genocide on gaza, libya has voice support. for the measures taken by the international court of justice, icj to prevent genocide in the gaza street. we are honored to have with us here in the studio, his excellency ali jumal ubedi, the ambassador of libya to iran. it's been a pleasure having you in our program. thank you, mercy. this is the story of nation that lived here for centuries until an obscure foreign regime emerged and began farming on their lands and brought in new people to replace the old nation. they picked the focal point of attention of different religions in the region, a highly regarded place at the heart of this arabic islamic seting. what would have happened if hizbullah had been vanquished? this is perhaps the most significant and upsetting question about the 2006 war. much has been said about the 2006 war, about its motives, the behind the scenes and the circumstances around it. alexander dugin challenges the western capitalism. and the unipolar world, he says the world has moved away from the western subjugation and countries like iran, russia, ch

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ambed the us israel genocide on gaza, libya has voice support for the measures taken by the international court of justice icj to prevent genocide in the gaza stream. we are honored to have with us here in the studio, his excellency ali jumal obaidi, the ambassador of libya to iran. it's been a pleasure. having you in our program, thank you, mercy, i returned a few days ago from egypt, on the flight, i wrote a letter to the children of gaza, and i would like to close my talk with this letter. dear child, it is past midnight. i'm flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the atlantic ocean. i'm traveling to egypt. i will go to the border of gaza at rafa. "i go because of you. you have never been in a plane. you have never left gaza. you know only the densely packed streets and alleys, the concrete hovels. you know only the security barriers and fences patrolled by soldiers that surround gaza. planes for you are terrifying." fighter jets, attack helicopters, drones, they circle above you, they drop missiles and bombs, deafining explosions, the ground shakes