joining us middle east and terrorist analyst walid phares.s always good to of you and share your perspectives what's happening in the middle east, as relates right now to iran. what's going on there and why would france begin to withdraw its diplomatic force? >> well, kelly shall the french saw what happened to the british and both european nations have seen what happened to the u.s. mission decades ago. they know that the iranian regime now is on a path of at least diplomatic war against the diplomatic missions of the the west and they understand that when the elements attack the embassies, there's no way that the regime is not supporting them, because we saw when the regime wanted to block a demonstration back in june of 2009 what they've done to them. so the regime is sending the signals to the west, they're not happy with sanctions and going to do more against them. >> kelly: anytime you start seeing foreign governments in iran pull or withdraw their diplomatic corps, you've got to wonder why iran would be doing this yet you mentioned the

walid is 24 years old.shot in the back during a demonstration in deraa. >> we were demonstrating peacefully with all of branches. we did not have any weapons. when we got to the military security building, we saw the snipers. and bodies were on the ground. so we hid. i wanted to help it demonstrator who had been shot in the head, and then i was shot by a sniper. >> walid was first taken to a hospital in deraa. an operation saved his life. as soon as the operation was over, activists took him to jordan. syrian security forces are looking for him. his brother has been arrested, his family home destroyed. >> i will never walk again. but i do not need to walk. depose bashar. the dictator must go. wounded and persecuted want one thing only, for the assad regime to end before more innocent people have to suffer. until their country is free, they will remain here as refugees in jordan. >> syrian officials have already agreed to allow international monitors into the country, but how much access will they actually h

walid phares, fox news, middle east and terrorism analyst, nor of the coming revolution, a struggle fork about every day and thanks for being with us, dr. >> thank you, sure. >> jamie: was this expected the violence after the withdrawal? at some point will it stabilize on its own? what's projected and expected we don't know about the details of when the first cycle or other cycles will come. what we see right now is the explosion of issue that have been frozen, contained by our presence in iraq and because, politically it was not-- on the ministry level doing good surges and suppress the al-qaeda activities and we contain somewhat the influence of the slammist militia. as soon as we're out and there's no political consensus, everything is coming back. >> there are many critics of the withdrawal that there are supporters, and time to leave iraq. can you make a connection between the withdrawal and the violence that we're seeing right now? >> oh, everybody in the arab world makes that connection. this is not a secret and the issue is not the withdrawal it's what we have done, for the with

a major part of the revolutionary spirit we first met muhammad in august on the frontlines of bani walid one of the final strongholds of the get out here regime a former and nearing student he joined two of his brothers in what he says was a win or die fight for freedom because at the beginning everything was absolutely peaceful there were no guns we want to freedom and fairness but then the dictator used going far against him we lost money on rebels three months later mohammad is definitely in the driver's seat rebels of the country's new heroes popular with women and the public at large if not with a rifle by his side mohamed would be like a twenty seven year old in any army country cruising around on a saturday night is good. and it's not like he was under privileged under gadhafi regime he certainly leaves in a three hundred square. their house in the prestigious area of tripoli they say the revolution has brought them along the way to democracy but is yet to translate into concrete benefits we have free education on health care on the gadhafi of course we expected to remain free but

walid phares, a fox news middle east and terrorism analyst., the united states has not shown any indication that it is going to get involved in this government on citizen violence in syria the way it did in libya. why? >> you know, jon, unlike in libya the regime in syria, the assad regime is not isolated. qaddafi was isolated. it was easier for the united states, nato allies to bring him down. in syria you have the assad regime which has an alliance as we all know, big troublemaker in the region in the news, iranian regime. since our withdrawal from iraq, that is crucial, when we abruptly withdrew iraq the iranians are able to connect with the assad regime through iraq. the man remains very strong. jon: by not taking on the syrian regime we avoid taking on the iranians? >> that is the equation. it is very simple. on the map we can see iran, iraq, syria and hezbollah from afghanistan all the way to the mediterranean sea. we have one big bloc. if you touch one of those everybody will react against us across the region. it has become a regional

a major part of the revolutionary spirit we first met muhammad in august on the frontlines of bani walid one of the final strongholds of the gadhafi regime a former engineering student who joined two of his brothers in what he says was a win or die fight for freedom three months later mohammad is definitely in the driver's seat revels of the country's new heroes popular with women and the public at large if not with a rifle by his side muhammad would be like a twenty seven year old in any other country cruising around on a saturday night goodness. and it's not like he was under privileged under gadhafi regime he certainly lives in a three hundred square meter house in the prestigious area of tripoli they say the revolution has brought them along the way to democracy but is yet to translate into concrete benefits we have free education on health care of the gadhafi the new authorities also have to decrease prices and raise salaries so that ordinary people can join all the benefits of the revolution. yes exactly how the new government can afford to do so in a country a ruling by war and st

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