on the region now on russia ukraine he's paid atlee wrong whatever motivates moscow's policy on the ukraine it's not or oil but what about iran east really after an it you know it's not a question of energy i think it's much more about influence. iran wants to increase since your strategic and geopolitical reach in the region this is something that every country wants to do and the iranians want to strengthen their muscle and strengthen their reach and strengthen their influence and to use it in their power as part of a balance of power game against united states against israel and the saudis and at the same time i think the iranians want to increase their leverage in the region as a means of as part of a power play within iran because there's there are parts of the iranian political establishment who want to focus more in work iran has many domestic problems but there are those who want to focus on wars and this again iran's middle east strategy is part of the power of power play within domestic iranian politics and as you pointed out many countries do that both on the regional and sometimes global

level and yet in his speech secretary pale sat without a hint of irony that they could not be more of a contrast about how america uses it and of the sources and how the leaders of the islamic republic of iran use there and by the way he said they are not there is but on substance do you think he's right. you know runs a very or is a very rich country in terms of gas and oil resources america is now one of the world leaders in shale oil look at the start of the living of course america is much richer because of other reasons a bigger country with access to two oceans huge country or the same time there are many people in iran who are very angry that iranian rulers the regime has not used the oil money to build a diversified economy the words after forty years of revolution it's a little bit embarrassing for some iranians that the biggest export that the country has to take into consideration there are. anyway thousands of tons of

hundreds of thousands if not millions of well educated iranians home and abroad well but i'm sure you know that many americans are also pretty unhappy with how diet government allocates their resources i think the question is different the question is that the americans have always mix politics and trade especially trade and hydro carbons that's the basis for the alliance with the saudis that's what they do in europe with lho being against the russian gas pipelines even if political calculations go into the rainy and energy sales aren't they dwarfed by the american product. well the iranian iranians are at war with the with the u.s. but look at the end of the day it's different you know for america america until now has not had its own oil resource and so yes oil has played a very big part in in its foreign policy abroad in its power projection of role in russia you don't have that problem russia is a energy rich country so in america it has been part of part of the goal for his foreign policy adventures abroad we see it not always but in iraq certainly

played a part and for iran see to you for you ron the question of oil is how it uses it at home how money is distributed inside iran there are many people who are very unhappy away the way it's distributed now you say four and it's all about the domestic use and yet compared particularly singled out the iranian gas and electricity sales to iraq as an example of that malicious influence of the us just a few days later his own state department on the recombination of the pentagon issued a waiver from the sanctions to allow iraq to buy electricity from iran isn't it just still little bit inconsistent inconsistent its power you know it's they try to use their own lives on the one hand. on the one hundred americans are very much trying to isolate iran in the region on the other hand they realize that there's only so much they can push them the iraqis get forty percent of their electricity from iranian gas you will not find it many countries if not even one country in

a world who is willing to cut off forty percent of its electricity that's not going to happen so that creates a problem for. the problem for the u.s. government is that look i hold the iranian regime very much responsible for its very aggressive attitude towards america in israel but at the same time america to walk out of that human being was a wrong move it has left america isolated to another little bit nervous that because they're isolated because america because the europeans don't support them because the russians and the chinese don't support them you know their reach is limited under the sea. with iraq the con the con push iraq too much because iraq is relying on iran for gas and electricity and one of the reasons they can't push iraq too much is because i think at this current moment there is simply no alternative to the rain and electricity remember last year there was a temporary halt in electricity exports which sparked violent protests on the streets of bastrop with more parading through the city and attacking the symbols of

the iraqi political power i mean whether the trumpet mr likes it or not aren't the rainy and energy supplies crucial to the america's own objective of keeping iraq relatively safe. preventing it from imploding once again that's correct and i can argue with that but look i just don't get what's the point of such demands when they clearly could not be accommodated without risking and not the outbreak of violence and when you have to walk them bad just a few days later again trump doesn't know if he has looked trump is going to go run for elections in twenty twenty needs to show results will come out of iran there was a boy has been a major part of his foreign policy he sees it as an achievement so when the americans go to world in twenty twenty you don't want to say ok what did you do with this did you get iran to return to the negotiation table. and for dem to say yes i did he needs to have iran so isolated that they do come back what as long as

iran is dealing with countries such as iraq it makes it more difficult in terms of perception it makes it more more difficult for him to say that you know that i'm isolating iran that the iranians are going to come back to the negotiation table. this is a sign you know this is a this is a very flawed design when you have something that has a flawed design if it's an aircraft that from the beginning it was a flawed design you learn to meet problems sooner or later i'm american walking out of the iran deal was a flawed strategy this is one of the consequences now the iranians have long been pretty skillful in turning the american failure to their own advantage do you think they will do it once again this time around with iraq i'm not sure social work somehow we have to take a broader view your focusing too much in my opinion on iraq i think the bigger issue for iran is what's happening inside its own borders people are of course

people don't like what trump is doing to them but from what i can see people are in iran are very very worried about the issue of corruption you know in tehran to our people tomorrow is the persian new year first of all happy new year to old your iranian audience and anybody who supports who celebrates nauru's you know people are having problems buying. you know buying food or buying old the stuff for nauru's a confectionery under some people in toronto driving who got season portion destry angers people i think for iranians that's more important and this is likely to be to kill his heel as much as iraq iran success in iraq is notable and iran can use it to turn it against americans but that won't be enough iran the iranian rulers need to put their own house in order and what's happening inside iran i think is creating more enemies for iran's role as the trumpet. could well the reason i'm focusing on that is because this program is primarily about foreign policy rather

than domestic of any particular country and let's have me that i think the issue of wealth inequality is perhaps even more pressing in the united states otherwise they would have elective donald trump i guess not as much as someone in the united states and we still have a you have a judiciary that's independent but we are not comparing these two political systems we're talking about how they exercise power on the international stage and on the international stage and it looks to me that the americans despite all their power doing it in the very inconsistent and the kind of way that truly defies the logic you said that the logic was flawed but i'm struggling to see analogic of making a bold statement and walking it back quietly just a couple of days later i mean that to me at least seems to be undermining the credibility of one of the most if not the most powerful country on this planet some of those the trumpet ministration have much credibility to begin with i don't think

he does but look the americans have a strong economy they use it as leverage they use sanctions in order to get what they want just as russia uses its strong forces as leverage to get what it wants every country tries to use the area where they have a competitive advantage over their rivals over the side that they're facing to get what they want sun for the americans it's now the economy and i'm not you know in terms of iraq look at the end of the day. i don't think iraq is going to be the make or break when it comes to iran ever returning to the negotiation table just as trump wants them i think it's a question of trump if trump is reelected and iran has to face another four years of trump then i think bring back the iranians reluctantly but then again i don't know how they could trust the americans after the walked out of the nuclear deal but iraq is to be honest it's a sideshow i think. syria's much more important roxanna for in terms of america and

israel facing off iran now the issue of an id you was not the only news item to come out of this trip also hinted that the united states may designate iran's revolutionary guards as a foreign terrorist organization if that's worth your happened it would be the first time washington designated a unit of another government's military as a terrorist group is that also an empty threat or do you think it may actually materialize i don't know if it will return realized but. i hope it doesn't to realize the revolutionary guard is extremely unpopular in iran the revolutionary guard is. carrying it's got a huge economy conglomerate which is very corrupt inside iran the revolutionary guard isn't there injuring my life and my the life of my family and my my compatriots in israel the revolutionary guard is supporting the most brutal regime in this region which is president bashar al assad i think it's

a very welcome move trunk does that i rather him sanctioning the revolutionary guard than fighting it. off course will have implications of the revolutionary guard will push back but there's not much that they can do in syria to be honest with you because in syria thankfully for israel and saudi arabia the country that has the upper hand is your country it's russia as you know russia has a totally different take on the range revolutionary guards they managed to contribute to reading that country of the foreign terrorist forces that many governments including by the way some speculated israel supported in that country so i think you can understand that as much as you dislike them it could have nassif massive implications for global politics aren't you troubled by the those implications. you know in syria there were three hundred thousand dead civilians. you know a course there were some isis people and some extremist people but the israel

didn't help them that's a myth second of all you know i miss the bashar al assad for years he was a transit point for jihad these were going to iraq to fight american forces he was a big pile of those jihad these and now he's trying to portray himself as somebody who is fighting terrorism and all of the respect that he's not trying to portray anything that countries facing it was facing a major terrorist onslaught and it's well documented for you to minimize minimize the input of the saudis the americans and i'm sorry to say these release is i think a little bit analytically unfair if i can put it mildly i think it's very sincere to say that bashar assad has killed more civilians in this region than any other or any other leader in the past two decades you seem more than people who led the. campaign against moammar gadhafi in libya you really think that the syrian the war trumps everything else that has happened in in that region including the pad the

palestinian issue as well i'm not trying to minimize it but the fact remains that in terms of the leader killing his own people in terms of a muslim killing his own muslim people by cheryl assad has killed more than saddam hussein bashar assad has killed more than. and of course bashar assad has chilled more muslims than they've been killed in the palestinian israeli conflict you can check those numbers well i actually checked those numbers and i think my stance is very different from yours but anyway for the time being we have to take a very short break but maybe we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. but i hope to. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich. but you're going to be close as you like them before three of them or can't believe that. i'm interested always in the waters out. there should be. rule of law to go oh oh oh dear it's. been a real good shots to begin murders girls all life. becomes are in class communities young people are deciding this they want to be not like their parents not liked and liberals. always struggle school. you always have problems but you're going to focus and walk is the most ubiquitous loaned out there most police departments use it almost overstayers in the school they could get their hands on

a gun was in twenty four hours. chinese kids are both racism both police brutality taking pride of them being all these kids are all a part of all history. welcome back to worlds apart where the mayor to give a damn for an iranian israeli middle east analyst mr jefferson from just before the break we talked about potential ramifications of designating era. revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization and i think it's not only iran that could be affected take

iraq for example there are many iran supported actors bit in the iraqi parliament. it could also undermine its new and still fairly fragile government and the americans to have something to lose i mean they maintain a residual force in iraq around five thousand troops do you think their security will be taken into consideration when the decision about the r r g status is being made. it will be let's not forget that during the after u.s. invasion of iraq iranian probably iranian forces and iraqi forces linked to the iran were responsible for the death of more than a thousand american soldiers so this is something that the americans are aware of and i think if they do go ahead on. labeled i.r.g.c. as a terrorist organization they will be the start of america settling scores with for

killing their soldiers in iraq and i think it's likely to take military action against i mean it's a sonority old to make military action against u.s. forces in iraq and i think the americans this time will who will make will undertake much more forceful measures now just days after paris middle east tour the iraqi defense minister travel to damascus to discuss with his iranian and syrian counterpart as the opposition to the us his role in syria it looks like the american rhetoric is pushing the iraqis into the reins hands does it not look the rock is or in a very peculiar position they're in they have the face between iran and saudi arabia and turkey to have to be very careful how they play the superpowers of course no one no country like star foreign forces on their soil i'm sure the iraqis don't want american forces on the soil but for now. well you know america sana was very very crucial in terms of fighting in iraq if it wasn't for american help

people the popular militia forces which are trained by iran and have close links to iran many of them they would not have been able to defeat isis they tried to fight they tried to invade numerous occasions and despite massive numeral numerical superiority they could not beat isis which was a smaller number until i repeat until the u.s. air force came about well you know also for effort getting about the presence of the russian they are a force on the ground but i will let it slide russian air force in syria has been crucial but in terms of iraq it was the americans russia russian air force has been crucial in fighting died very much so without a shadow of the doubt but also russian air force has been crucial in bombing opposition forces who are nothing to do with dark well who also have to be a pretty radical and extremist agenda groups like al nusra you know not all of them

know obviously not all of them not all people who kill for killed in the rag by american forces reported terrorists but they were killed nonetheless and you know that this is how war unfolds i mean israel knows that from its own experience sure and so does russia absolutely and i'm not trying to pretend that russia is on the somewhat higher moral ground here that's the american position i think most of the time now let me bring you back to the iranian iraqi diplomacy because i'm really interested in how it develops that meeting. that i mentioned in damascus came on the heels of what some described as a historic visit by iranian president hassan rouhani to iraq and i know that you wrote recently that that cheap raises important questions for israel what kind of questions. in israel it's all interest of the moderates in iran have

a stronger hand not that big they like israel they don't like israel it's just because the moderates in iran such as president rouhani know that iran faces one of the strongest and the most devastating drought it has ever faced and iran needs to look inside more than outside rather than challenging israel needs to challenge its own problems so the question is will will will the trip to iraq strengthen his hand domestically and unfortunately no because in iran is the revolutionary guard on all the old you know regime affiliated organizations that have the stronger hand they have much better access in iraq they have the rocket fire not the iranian foreign minister unfortunately in israel for israel not because rouhani likes israel but unfortunately for us in iran who want to focus internally are not going to increase their leverage as a result of this is story visit to iraq you know some i have to tell you i'm iranian as well as israeli i lived through the iran iraq war for seven years we left iran a year before it finished watching the iranian president go to iraq like that was

just for me it's incredible but internally the decide that he wants to look internally and to reduce tensions with the outside world didn't come out stronger as a result of this iraq wasn't on and that's a disappointment for us in israel you said a moment ago that israel has an interest in the moderate forces prevailing in iran and to me that wasn't evident at all in. reaction to the iranian foreign minister zarif shortly threat nation i mean there was quite a bit of cool loading on that and yeah aspire they bowed cities departure he almost to credit for that is israel really interested in the moderates gaining an upper hand in iran now you're israel doesn't want to run backwards just let's not forget that israel was the only country supporting you. during the iran iraq war we faced

in israel iran you know iranian regime denies the holocaust it has called for the elimination of the state of israel certain members of the reigning in the regime deny holocaust not all of them i'll send you know what i'll put it on when you put this on facebook i'll show you the text the exact text from supreme leader ayatollah khomeini who called who called the holocaust out son in persian means it's a myth just like you'd call cinderella the story of sin there are lots and so he's a holocaust denier but at the same time natanya who look. netanyahu is a populist politician who only in my opinion wants to stay in power yes iran is that enemy of the state of israel and her people a litany always very much guilty of using the iran issue and abusing the iran issue and exaggerating the iranian threat for his own purposes and i think what he did recently was. against it as much as i disagree with that if i don't like him yes netanyahu wants to see the moderates out and i think this is very wrong and

hopefully in the next prime in the next elections in israel we're going to push it on you know out of power i'm going to have a much more sensible leadership in israel towards all of our problems not just iran towards the issue of palestine and of course course towards the question of iraq you mentioned the upcoming elections in israel and there there is speculation at least among foreign policy analysts that one of the purposes of comparison was to kind of bush that electoral chances do you believe that that that to be the case and i really hope that's not why he's coming here i would resent any foreign politician be there from from the united states or from mexico or from madagascar coming here to boost the chances of the disparity or the other if he's here for that and i completely condemn it and i think he's here for other reasons look trump an attorney now who are kindred spirits you know i. if the attorney i was in the prime minister of the state of israel he would make the perfect tea party cone

congressman in the united states i think they're kindred spirits they look at things in a very much in the same way and where is pumping oil going to go is not going to go to europe because the europeans resent him for what he did to the iran deal so he goes to his audience which is mr netanyahu on and of course the saudis also backed america to pull out of the iran nuclear deal for their own reasons now what i find very interesting is that while trump's approval ratings are pretty high among the israeli jews. he's standing with the american jews and the american public at large is not that impressive do you think this association a very close association with trump is going to serve israel well in the longer term you know. diaspora jews are incredibly important to us they're incredibly important to us you know this country was created after many people here

sacrificed their lives but maintained its presence on existence not just because of a strong army but because of a because of a very strong diaspora relation i challenge you to find many ten buildings in israel universes which were not donated by some diaspora jew from the united states we are incredibly in that said to them for their help and i think netanyahu cozying up to trump has hurt our relationship with the diaspora we see and this is this is something that's of great concern and this is one reasons why i hope netanyahu loses in the next elections and why i hope trump loses in the next u.s. elections because this is damaging our relationship with our brother and in the in the in the u.s. jewish community. well we have to leave it there i guess we will have to wait and see whether your predictions or at least your hopes work out in the meantime i really appreciate your being with us today thank you very much for your perspective

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