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siren fury may be the apt title of a gossipy tell all about the trump administration and it's certainly an accurate moniker for the kind of senselessly bare knuckle tactics the president prefers when it comes to deporting illegal immigrants or facing off against perceived enemies of america like the mainstream media north korea's little rocket man or the islamic republic of iran but what many tend to forget is that fire and fury could also very well describe america's foreign policy when it comes to washington's designated list problem country for many many decades and administrations prior to the orange in chief and no nation on earth has experienced the full nonsensical brunt of america's diplomatic approach from the people of iran to where our long history of fire and fury impacts today's complex world we welcome dan koblick a human rights attorney professor at university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to attack iraq welcome. thank you for having me always a pleasure having you on brown of the. and i want to start when i say i feel like

you know the title of your book and it's like i feel like this has been coming for a long time i mean the u.s. stance on iran is as you know it has been basically pretty hostile and become a trademark of kind of donald trump's republican party but how does it actually comparative the u.s. or any relationship historically i mean is the kind of aggression interference you know really all that new when you look at the u.s. as a relationship with iran. well no and in fact that's one thing i tried to emphasize in my book. is if you go back to one nine hundred fifty three in their audience remember this very well the cia's very first. date i was in iran the cia overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of iran mohammad most a deck and installed installed the shah of iran a king we then helped i should say the cia helped the shah set up his security

services called the sock train the socket nazi type torture techniques. and helped the shah rule iran until the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine. through very repressive tactics again this is something very much in the memories of the iranian people and something that i think americans need to consider when we think about iran and how the iranian government and the iranian people perceive our government. one of the things that that sort of has come up now is that washington the mainstream media really quick to to pay the wave of recent protests in iran as you know a budding popular revolution against the government you know as if well here it is now you recently bento ron and have seen the situation on the ground for south and i want to ask you is the political structure there really as close to chaos and failure as the establishment's and the mainstream media is leading us to believe.

no i've i believe not i mean my perception of iran. when i was there is first of all that it's a very modern country in some ways it's very western a lot of people speak english most of the signs are in english and farsi serving they're struggling but they're largely struggling because of western sanctions against a country which would cost their economy over one hundred sixty billion dollars and so yes there are economic problems again largely imposed specifically by the united states there are issues of political freedom of course there that people are concerned about but i think you know iran is in the process and has been in the process of democratizing of liberalizing and i think they need to be allowed to find their own path to development and to democracy again keeping

in mind that we interrupted their democratic process in one nine hundred fifty three. and the u.s. has spent a lot of money trying to gin up opposition and violent opposition to the government there and that has to be kept in mind also and when looking at these protests most definitely you know it's interesting the political stablished for new years has been you know pushing hard recent years the tyrone's government the world's predominant shia muslim power to various sunni muslim terrorist networks which is like al qaeda and isis a relationship that would seem pretty unnatural to say the least is there any truth to this axis of power concept or is it an attempt to harden public opinion against the run and really you know go and part and parcel to this plot that you talk about as the title of your book. where you raise a great point i mean the truth is that he ron is and has been a mortal enemy of terrorist groups like al qaida isis people might not remember

this but. right after nine eleven iran helped the united states in its operations in afghanistan against the taliban and against al qaida and george bush even recognize this. i mean he had knowledge that they were very critical to our operations because again they're natural enemies. of these. extremist sunni. terrorist groups like al qaida now he says but then george bush thanked them by declaring them as part of this axis of evil even though at the time iran thought they were going to get a better diplomatic deal after helping us. after nine eleven and by by the way the supreme leader of iran right after nine eleven condemned the nine eleven attacks in many ways iran is a natural friend of the united states in the war against terror and yet we have shunned them time and again and instead opted to be friends with countries like

saudi arabia which in fact support al qaida and isis and that is not leads me to add to my second question is that you know over the last two decades since nine eleven we have the publicly available intelligence absolutely reveals many more ties between anti-u.s. terrorist groups you anti-u.s. terrorist groups and saudi arabia not iran yet one of the one is considered to be among america's top out america's top allies the other is treated like a mortal enemy and in that same way it's it feels a lot like when it was saddam made nine eleven happen and somehow now we're still playing that same game is iran made all that happen it was a run with no evidence and no real answer to that why why do we seem so bifurcated on this saudi arabia great aranda horrible despite. you know well again is it. you know will mention in my book the plot to attack iran

iran is the big prize and has been the big prize for the new economy stablished the u.s. for a number of decades the truth is it's one of the last stable countries in the middle east standing because frankly the u.s. has yet. to invade their. that i believe and it's quite frightening to me that there are powerful members of the us establishment who want to entirely remake the middle east. a iran is in their way of course iran has all the oil which has always been of interest to the united states and what is sad is the us has shown a willingness itself to aid and abet terrorist groups like isis in order to weaken iran. to accomplish this goal of remaking the middle east which frankly is done nothing but unleashed chaos. upon that region and i think that's why americans need to really rethink what their government and their military are doing in the middle

east and i would hate to see iran go that way of iraq to see the beautiful antiquities of iran destroyed as they were in iraq or afghanistan or syria. i think people need to step back and call on their government to to refrain from such a conflict against their country i couldn't agree with you more you know even after the disasters from scene unfold in iraq libya and syria after u.s. attempts to bring about regime change you know people still seem to be taking to this idea of invading iraq i think almost too lightly do you think an all out war with iran is in the cards i mean obviously wrote the book the plot to graft iran but do you think that the plot will come to food fruition is that something that we're going to see in the next few years. i think it's a potential it is a potential believe me i hope it does not happen and that's why i wrote this book

because i don't want it to happen but yes i think it's a potential as you point out it would be disastrous. iran is a huge country it's about the size of alaska and it has about eighty million people it has a very strong military attacking iran would be much much more difficult than the war against iraq or the war against the taliban in afghanistan which of course we're still fighting to this day years later right. but i fear there are people. in power in this country who may be willing to take that risk and frankly may be willing to use tactical nuclear weapons to pull something like that off and that that's. my big fear and i think americans need to be aware of the possibility and need to organize against it when one when they talk about iran on t.v. politicians or b.t.o. what is the best piece of advice you can give a viewer to cut through the b.s.

as a word to. one of the key words they should watch out for when listening to you know someone talk about iran who is pushing this agenda we've got short time left. well again i think they need to look past the word terrorist and again realize that iran is not the country supporting terrorist groups that are somehow writing the united states they need to look at our history with iran they need to look take stock in the fact that we were the ones that destroyed their incipient democracy in the fifty's and there were not the ones who are going to move them further towards democracy now that they're going to have to do that themselves iran has on a couple of occasions occasions are for the us a grand bargain to settle the us has concerns in the middle east while giving iran the security that it wants and that frankly it's entitle to and i think we need to take them up on that couldn't agree more damn kovel it thank you so much for coming

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the court of arbitration for sport overturns the lifetime olympic bans handed down to twenty eight russian athletes accused of doping violations. a libyan man whose family was killed during a nato air raid in two thousand and eleven stepped up his fight for justice and looks to take the alliance to europe's top human rights court. but now we do need to explain why our house and other houses will show all the military targets i don't understand why nato targeted. and from extortion to drug dealing one of the united states biggest ever police corruption scandal reveals an abuse of power within the elite task force in the city of baltimore.

from the whole team here at r t h q thanks for joining us this hour i'm back in boca. first the court of arbitration for sport has overturned the lifetime olympic bans of twenty eight russian athletes accused of doping and up held the results at the sochi winter games. gass arbitrators unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the i.o.c. in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case this is why in twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that an anti-doping rule violation was committed by the athletes concerned. this does not mean that these twenty. innocents but. due to insufficient evidence the held the sanctions and the. results achieved in such reinstituted for them it went from

a lifetime ban completely not in a single olympics were they allowed to compete it went from that to all allegations and more importantly sanctions against them being dropped to talk about extremes really so for them it is really important because this decision has allowed them to finally clear their names and this is something that they've been fighting for for a while now really also this means that nine medals in these sorts of olympics in two thousand and fourteen are going back to russia obviously russia is glad with this decision the cash decision on russian athletes confirms many accused of anti doping rule violations are clean also eleven other russian athletes they were partially cleared they had their lifetime ban swapped only for a band to compete in the upcoming olympic games in south korea those people landed in trouble because of the so-called mclaren report a canadian lawyer submitted a lengthy document accusing russia of running

a state sponsored doping scheme the international olympic committee they used it as a stepping stone in their rule an investigation into the issue as a result of russia's whole olympic team was slapped by a blanket ban the whole report was revolving around the eyewitness account of gregorio watch and it is a man who ran a allow been more school and who used russia swapping dirty doping samples for clean ones the court of appeals heard both from and from mclaren and the court of appeals found in their testimony not enough effectively to consider those people guilty so this whole thing really undermines the. sees investigation into the allegations of doping in russia so no wonder the i.o.c. is somewhat embarrassed the i.o.c. will analyze the recent decisions very carefully once they are available and consider the consequences including an appeal to the swiss federal tribunals since

the russian olympic committee is suspended russian athletes can participate in pyongyang only on invitation by the i.o.c. the result of the cast decision does not mean that athletes from the group of twenty eight will be invited to the games those twenty eight athletes they've had all allegations all sanctions against them dropped still the i.o.c. maintains their ground saying well you're not you're still not invited the initial decision to enforce the bans was made by the international olympic committee and some russian athletes thought their careers were over and their dreams shattered. the musical noise we go to was most notable about the things presently with your pyramid gainor you now believes knows if it is communicated that love i mean almost or most of the by my me i'm conducting is nice to your.

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able to compete in the winter games despite having their appeals upheld makes the situation even worse for the out athletes the i.o.c. will oversee do everything in his power to stop doesn't ones complete but i don't think they can do it and the reason. the reason is basically what the cast says in the decision was that the eleventh analogy which one cation results once you will be eligible for one check and the i.o.c. sanction them again why excluding them from the end with your nice being proved like no dice. you know that really. punishing an athlete is something i haven't done in the first. a libyan man who lost his whole family in a nato air raid is planning to take his fight for justice to the european court of human rights he says the alliance dropped two bombs on his house during its military military intervention in the country in two thousand and eleven. now we demand that nato explain why our house and other houses were showing

a military target i don't understand why nato targeted our house sadly my dear wife died as well as my cousins my innocent children and on neighborhood friends where they are with us it was a monstrous crime that nato has the latest equipment and technology which allows them to accurately determine the target of the nato cross struck specifically at night when people were in their home they intentionally hit civilian targets hospital schools gas stations they destroyed all the infrastructure while they were killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure apparently knowing there were no weapons though. here you can see on the map where the nato attack took place and as colleague mentioned thirteen people were killed in the bombardment including three children he says his house may have been targeted because his father was a general who served under libya's former leader moammar gadhafi but says it was

just a family home and not a legitimate target now the lawsuit was filed almost seven years ago but he's faced an uphill struggle to actually get his case into a court nato argues that it had no evidence suggesting civilians were in the house at the time of the bombing however cleaved says his lawyers have now found a way to overcome the alliance's legal immunity in such incidents and he hopes his case will set a precedent for those who also lost their families. we gathered our families in different parts of libya we found a man whose wife daughter and son as well as his mother die during the shelling and there were other families in other cities a lot of families empowered to report some identified victims after having documented in photograph the material so that this case could become a historical precedent. murder rates in the u.s. city of baltimore it skyrocketed in two thousand and seventeen with fifty six killings per one hundred thousand people

a new record for the city that already has a reputation for being dangerous and crime ridden. few cities in body american urban decay more depressing leaving the city of baltimore baltimore struggles with a record high murder rate. murder rate from cold. yes baltimore there is a robust active crime strategy.

that all comes as baltimore has been rocked by the ongoing trials and one of america's biggest police corruption scandals the gun trace task force and the elite group of plainclothes officers were supposed to be reducing violence and crime however it now seems they have actually been adding to it six out of eight members of the group have pled guilty to charges of organized crime including extortion and drug dealing. has been across the story. the baltimore police department is now involved in one of the biggest scandals in u.s. law enforcement history for months now the court system has been trying to investigate corruption within the city's police force eight officers are on trial over drug trafficking racketeering robbery and planting fake evidence like drugs and. we would create false reports to cover up the robberies we were involved in.