ahmadinejad hardliners who oppose any deal with the united states and like khomeini in the one nine hundred eighty s. will jump at any chance to discredit the current moderate president hassan rouhani act over surprise also led to the deaths of thousands of innocent people around the world particularly in central america reagan took money from the iranians and use that money to kill nuns in nicaragua but those are just the most obvious results of the october surprise again of her able to free the hostages like he and bonnie solder had planned her would have won reelection after all he was leading the most polls in the months leading up to the election and of reagan were never elected america would be a much more progressive nation. flashforward thirty three years and once again a democratic president is trying to negotiate in good faith with iran president obama has made a deal with the moderate iranian president that if everything goes as planned will solve a major international crisis but like president carter's deal president obama's deal is opposed by republicans who have proven

this was nothing short of treason the reagan campaign secret negotiations with khomeini the so-called october surprise sabotage carter and body solders attempts to free the hostages and as bonnie sutter told the christian science monitor in march of this year they most certainly tipped the results of that i nine hundred eighty election in their part in reagan's favor not surprisingly around release the hostages on january twentieth one thousand nine hundred one at the exact moment ronald reagan raises him to be sworn into office. surprise embolden the radical forces inside iran a politically weakened bonnie saddam was overthrown in june of eighty one and replaced by by mohammad ali. a favorite of khomeini's these radical forces today are represented by people like former president mahmoud ahmadinejad hardliners who oppose any deal with the united states and like khomeini in the one nine hundred eighty s. will jump at any chance to discredit the current moderate president hassan rouhani the october surprise also led to the deaths of thousands of innocent people around the world particu

it was the khomeini era which is very special because khomeini they said there was pretty much what he wanted to do. khomeini was with interesting because if we were sitting in idaho, in turn 60 for the revolution and some secret conficker most of the people in this room would have supported khomeini. the reason we would have supported him is because not because we like him because we didn't like the shah coming people certainly like me, the sort of new diverse -- snooty professor. he's this old guy come sort of ignorant cleric. he's got the people who we were using to get rid of the shah and this guy will become. they are now sitting in beverly hills drinking tea wondering what went wrong. at khomeini was much my dear opponent and much wider and smarter, you know, focused in any of them thought. but the khomeini era was kind of the most difficult, one of the most difficult times because the war with iraq, the invasion of iraq, the invasion of iran by a rack which traumatized the iranian people. you've heard of the cemetery and tehran where those fountains shooting up red water to symb

about egypt we're talking about jordan a document many gulf states and iran before the arena for khomeini so israel has formed secret allies with countries that publicly support the end the israeli line but covered really support not israel but the same set of of interest and without disclosing military and intelligence secrets i would say that many of the operations including sassoon nations that were conducted against you reigning in and. jihadi star gets in the last ten years by israeli mossad we're not so it's assessed successful it was not with the help of many arab countries in the middle east that helped israel conducted this not because they like israel but because they share the same sort of of enemy and the same sort of interests mr bergman it's interesting that you mentioned that this secret operation between israel and other countries because we often oftentimes hear that israel is supposedly the only democracy in the middle east and yet all that pro israeli views that you have expressed they may be shared only by intelligence community because if you look at any public opinio

the years and there are numerous publications and statement by do leaders of iran from ayatollah khomeini to all the other main leaders including the so-called moderate rafsanjani that calls publicly for the destruction of israel and do not acknowledge the right of the jewish people have a state now these are the facts the facts remain there i think that israelis have at least the right to fear that the same iran who is funding publicly without denying funding terrorists there are many states that support terrorist. the united states for example supports terrorism in syria and their hundreds of thousands of people now have been killed as a result of the support for terrorist activity the united so supporting terrorism in in russia so yes a reason you must report is that the united states the previous administration supported chechen terrorism in russia indeed it's part of public record but again let's keep our attention on iran you mentioned many leaders who were indeed very bellicose in their rhetoric towards israel but there is now a new leader in teheran and that new new leader has a s

talk to us a little bit about your reporting on the state of mind of khomeini here. >> i've done a fairof reporting on it. it's fascinating. i think it's really important that people understand this man who signs off on any deal in iran who is the ultimate authority in that country, he hates the united states and he thinks we're out to get him. i think one reason why, although this is an imperfect deal, president obama deserves credit for having gotten it. he cut a deal with a guy who really thinks and not without some justification, we're out to get him and that the nuclear issue is a stocking horse for regime change. it has been thrown around washington for years. george w. bush proclaimed iran part of an axis of evil. in tehran, they think america is coming to get us and knock us out of power. for them to do even a partial deal, i think shows you that in particular, these sanctions are really strangling them and saying, we've got to do something to get out from under the sanctions right now, even though we really don't trust the americans. >> khomeini is the decider of course it's ni

ayatollah khomeini was in exile in paris he was making tape recordings literally little tape or koreans audio tape recordings and they were smuggled into iran and every week i guess it was or maybe every month and they were duplicated and people listened to them and that became the basis for the revolution overthrowing the shop and that was that as i say revolution and the cutting edge technology you have to write a nine hundred seventy seven and so tonight and so that was that was the twitter of the day you know could it be this new administration in iran embracing these new technologies or the modern day equivalent of what many used could be the downfall of maintenance here it could very well be i mean i think at the end the day of the iranian regime has shown its fear of technology in the hands of its people in a sense that they've created an alternative internet an entire internet for the entire country so they can block and they can slow down the speed of internet to the outside world while continuing to use the interests of internet inside the country so they have had this fear of

man who served during the hostage crisis bunny sautter adds two of my advisers were executed by khomeini's regime because they had become aware of the secret relationship between khomeini his son ahmad the islamic republican party in the reagan administration. as part of the deal keeping the hostages longer it's alleged the reagan team promised iran weapons which would be funneled in via israel as well as the un freezing of certain iranian assets in u.s. banks this wasn't the first time bunny sautter made this claim either in one thousand nine hundred two in fact wrote a letter to a house of representatives task force investigating allegations that the reagan team conspired to keep the hostages longer that letter along with another letter written by the foreign minister of iran that further implicated the reagan team was dismissed by the task force the spy congressional task force is exonerating the reagan team for what would have been high treason allegations of an october surprise have continued to persist a report by the russian government confirmed it sources in the israeli government

aggression see when the shah was in power and ayatollah khomeini was in exile in paris he was making tape recordings literally little tape or koreans audio tape recordings and they were smuggled into iran and every week i guess it was or maybe every month and they were duplicated and people listened to them and that became the basis for the revolution overthrowing the shop and that was that i say revolution and the cutting edge technology you have to write a nine hundred seventy seven. and so that was that was the twitter of the day you know would it be this new administration in iran embracing these new technologies of the modern day equivalent of what many used could be the downfall of maintenance here it could very well be i mean i think at the end of the day the iranian regime has shown its fear of technology in the hands of its people in the sense that they've created an alternative internet an entire internet for the entire country so they can block and they can slow down the speed of internet to the outside world while continuing to use the interests of internet inside the cou

there is only one khomeini and when he passed from the scene, the unique role that khomeini occupied is not eminently transferable to somebody else. so, the supreme leader presides over the islamic republic. he is not only the spiritual leader but also the political leader and he needs to engage in politicking just the way everybody else does. he really needs to get political interests in the air ran to support him, he needs to work with them, and certainly he is very, very influential. what he is not the only game in town. and indeed, it is a challenge. second of all is themullahs, the religious sector. the religious sector is extremely diverse. it is not that they all agree. there is great diversity and differences of view within the religious sect there, -- religious sector. some are extremely conservative and orthodox and some of them are actually very enlightened and they get it. but they are working in a very difficult system. , thehird is the irgc revolutionary guard. the revolutionary guard is not only a military organization parallel to the traditional military. far more imp

the ayatollah khomeini has applauded these talks and also iran's negotiating team and it also might just be his voice that's the only thing that can silence hard-liners and give this deal a chance of successing. al jazeera teheran. >> stay with us, we'll have a lot more of it later tonight. >>> still up, afghan leaders have voted to keep the u.s. troops in afghanistan. al jazeera's jane ferguson explains. >> this was metropolitan to be a day of agreement but many left feeling more confused than ever. the jurga, which was a gathering of afghan whys, in reference to president karzai's announcement on thursday that he won't sign the deal until after elections next april. on sunday he stuck to his position that he needed more time to get a better deal from washington. that didn't satisfy the head of the jurga and the drama on stage played out live on tv. >> translator: i want to repeat again, americans can not go into our houses after the bilateral documents. they cannot kill anyone in their house. the afghan people will be safe and peace will come. i don't accept that this decision is histo

or do you see the ayatollah khomeini who is shouting death to america, death to israel, which is thel iran? >> i think the supreme leader is the real iran. >> the one who has said death to america? >> just last week he called israel the rabid dog, the rhetoric hasn't stopped. rowhani is no moderate. no moderates were allowed to run in the iranian election. all the moderates were excluded. but he's still a hard liner, it's not clear to me that he can make these decisions anyway as the supreme leader, khomeini who can make these decisions and he hasn't shown any kind of moderation whatever. i think we need to use these next six months to make sure that iran dismantles it's program. they keep saying as we speak, they have a right to enrichment, that troubles me, they don't. >> let me ask you, as a final question, at this moment, what do you think is the worst that can happen over the next six months, and there's really not anything right now that congress can do, is there? >> here's the unfortunate thing, we had put enormous pressure on iran and it was having an impact internally. some

another year now what changes twenty twelve now nearly over you know what change so christmas is khomeini you know if you just think next year and it's just the daily grind which is. you know if you're looking at five or ten years in austerity. i don't mind working out of which out all my life we're doing fry and they and i will get up every day and would pull. when i don't even get a day or a week and it's you know it's itself. do you think humanity as a whole would benefit from living found parts of the wall g.m.o. free just to play on the safe side through biotechnology through research through genetic modification we can give those small holder farmers the opportunity to be able to deal with and survive all of those challenges and i believe they should have all of the tools. to limp a torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand one hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limp dick torch relay. on r t r g dot com. to

khomeini of your pupils working the fields after school ninety percent. are you feeling the impact of the crisis here or what are you talking about there isn't any crisis in reading i tell you you can't live in if you stay here you suffocate. thanks to europe these peoples had been gradually leaving work in the fields but then the crisis came and the children were sent back to work. one pm after school getting a star to second day she goes to the fields with her father. is the biggest producer of tobacco in europe. growing tobacco has always been a way of earning extra income every family has a field. it's the end of spring and the third over family have to transplant the seedlings which have been growing for months and. the last year i was still living in spain for work everywhere else i bring the girl but they are my employer insisted that she stays at home she was under eighteen but because of the crisis spain doesn't want the belgariad workforce any more so the farmers have come home and families can't afford not to have the children work in. we don't

ayatollah khomeini said it was the rabid dog of the region, hollande said such comments complicate the talks. y netanyahu renewed his call for a mutually accepted resolution. >>> vice president joe biden is urging lawmakers to hold off on passing sanctions against iran. the obama administration says they could jeopardize the delicate talks. >>> a lawmaker will be back at work after she was attacked feet from capitol hill. she describes herself as a tough girl from queens. when she was walking home from dinner tuesday someone knocked her out from behind and stole her purse. the congresswoman counted herself lucky saying she suffered a bump on her head and bruise on her chin. >> luckily i don't really carry that much cash on me. i had my cell phone and my credit card and id in my coat pocket. so none of that was taken thank fli. >> doctors say all tests came back normal. as for the congresswoman she said she is taking it slow. no arrests have yet been made. >>> paying tribute to their predecessor and icon john f. kennedy. a wreath was laid on his grave wednesday in advance of the 50th an

khomeini of your pupils working the fields after school ninety percent. are you feeling the impact of the crisis here. what are you talking about there isn't any crisis in reading i tell you you can't live in if you stay here you suffocate. man. thanks to europe these peoples had been gradually leaving work in the fields but then the crisis came and the children were sent back to work. one pm after school get in and start to second day she goes to the fields with her father. is the biggest producer of tobacco in europe. growing tobacco has always been a way of earning extra income every family has a field. it's the end of spring and the third over family have to transplant the seedlings which have been growing for months and. the last year i was still living in spain for work everywhere else i bring the girl but they are my employer insisted that she stays at home she was under eighteen but because of the crisis spain doesn't want this belgariad workforce any more so the farmers have come home and families can't afford not to have the children work. we do

mend relations with washington the rarely comes despite a statement from supreme leader ayatollah khomeini voicing his support for the diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the long running international standoff over iran's nuclear ambitions now santa ana's faced criticism from hardline opponents who say iran should not be seeking any compromise of what they see as a hostile to and wants to have a crush economic sanctions against it lifted in this indeed signaled its willingness to make concessions on its controversial nuclear program such as paul scott investigates why there are these diplomatic overtures of being so fiercely resisted. hassen rouhani these recent speech at the u.n. general assembly were said by many to represent a thorn in relations between tehran and washington a sign that the iranian leadership is keen to initiate warmer ties with the global community but not everyone is keen for this to happen. hard line conservative protesters threw eggs at the president upon his return to tehran and now those uncomfortable with the idea of increased diplomacy with washington have launc

the report by a reuters claims iran supreme leader ayatollah khomeini it leaves a business empire worth an estimated ninety five billion dollars. it is as constantine is reported to have made most of its vast fortunes by seizing property owned by ordinary iranian citizens some of whom are still living in the country the powerful companies said they have key state industries across the iranian economy to todd was originally set up following the country's nineteen seventy nine revolution to take control of abandoned properties and use money made from their sales to help war veterans in the port is meant to exist only for two years i lived on and greatly expanded its power under company's leadership. the report alleges that by having the company coming he also possesses financial power and that rivals the last shah of iran was ousted in a revolution. the eighty two year old supreme leader wields control over government afirs and the military. the us earlier this year imposed sanctions against it i'm calling a network of front companies holding assets on behalf of your runs leadership the i

the online khomeini caused the authorities by about the media were veiled age internet groups web based what's happening. to young man who was given away to a family that never should have the chance to adopt dimitris stewart was five years old when he and his brother were adopted from an orphanage in a small town near moscow it would be a rocky road living with his adoptive american parents didn't really feel like. i was there when he was a young teenager after years of strained relations and after his parents had biological children of their own the stewarts decided it was time to find him a new home and that's when they turned to the internet is that i go underground groups where people want. their destructive a dog shins and eventual leave the internet search led the stewarts to meghan axon axon moderated a website that helped find new homes for children that's how dimitris parents found nicole isa in eastern advertiser self as an aspiring mother that ran a home school to meet you found out that this was far from the truth this is little tiny. here it was clear that his new home was

the deal got an overwhelming support back in iran with the country's spiritual leader ayatollah khomeini welcoming the agreement professor side mohammad marandi from toronto university says that despite what appears to be many concessions iran gains more than its sacrifices the overwhelming majority of politicians and. political parties and political leaders in this country have come out in support of the negotiations and the deal the important thing is that iran is reaching uranium today it is continuing to do research and improving its technological capabilities within the framework of the n.p.t. and in fact the fact that iran is halting uranium enrichment at twenty percent is something that iran actually wants because it's very expensive and the iranians have produced the fuel that it needs for the tehran reactor that produces medical isotopes for cancer patients so the iranians have already produced enough nuclear fuel through in reaching agreement twenty percent is no longer needed so halting that is actually an advantage for iran because it does not want excess fuel because it's ve

mend relations with washington the rally comes despite a statement from supreme leader ayatollah khomeini was the key support for the diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the long running international standoff over iran's nuclear ambitions the set i made this face criticism from hardline opponents and take iran should not be seeking any compromise of what they see as a hostile power to run most of the harsh economic sanctions against it lifted and has signaled its wilngness to make concessions on its controversial nuclear program for scott's investigates why these diplomatic and accuse them of being something is being resisted. sandra ponies recent speech to the un general assembly was said by many to represent and storing in relations between tehran and washington. a sign that the rainy leadership is keen to initiate warmer ties with the global community. but not everyone is keen for the stop and hardline conservative protest is to exit the president upon his return to tehran. now the reason constable with the idea of increased to twenty with washington. towards the first day of a cow wit

mend relations with washington the willie comes despite a statement from supreme leader ayatollah khomeini voicing his support for the diplomatic efforts aimed at ending a long running international standoff over tehran's nuclear ambitions heidi has faced criticism from hardline opponents who say iran should not be seeking any compromise with what they see as a hostile power. iran wants to have the crushing economic sanctions. here's to lift it and have signaled its willingness to make concessions on its cover actual nuclear program. rt small spot mr gets whiny these diplomatic overtures. i mean so fiercely resisted the center of tony's recent speech to the un general assembly was said by many to represent a story in relations between tehran and washington. a sign that the rainy leadership is keen to initiate warmer ties with the global community. it starts. not everyone is keen for this to happen the hardline conservative protest is to exit the president upon his return to tehran. now ladies and constable with the idea of increased to twenty with washington. towards the first day of a cow

agreements get much support in iran itself spiritual leader ayatollah khomeini welcomes it as a basis for further progress while some writing experts believe that iran will gain more than it will sacrifice. the fact that iran is halting uranium enrichment at twenty percent is something that iran actually wants because it's very expensive and the iranians have produced the fuel that it needs for the tehran reactor that produces medical isotopes for cancer patients so the iranians have already produced enough nuclear fuel through enriching uranium at twenty percent no longer needed so halting that is actually an advantage for iran because it does not want excess fuel because it's very costly so the iranians feel that they do not lose very much and they have a lot to gain and again it shows that steadfastness at least from the iranian perspective and. standing for your rights can achieve results for his part russia's president putin hailed sunday's agreement for opening the doors to further positive diplomacy on the iranian nuclear program wanted a caution of a more known moscow's reacti

executed by committees regime because they have become aware of the seeker relationship between khomeini the son ahmad. the islamic republican party in the reagan administration. as part of the deal today the hostages longer the sleds the reagan team promised iran weapons which would be funneled into israel as all of the un freezing of certainty iranian assets in us banks. this was in the first time bunnies daughter made this claim either. in nineteen ninety two. in ft wrote a letter to a house of representatives taskforce investigating allegations that the reagan team conspired to keep the hostages longer. that letter along with another letter written by the foreign minister be wrong but further implicated the redeem team was dismissed by the taskforce. but congressional task force is exonerated berated him for what would have been a high treason. allegations of an october surprise continue to persist. a report by the russian government confirmed its sources in the israeli government did to answer due to their former reagan insider barber harder in nineteen eighty the former defence min

khomeini answered very directly, giving an order that chemical weapons could be used. weapons of mass destruction, including chemical web ends, nuclear and biological were forbidden by islam. this is the first of eight fatwa issued in the iranian context. the very early on, a context was established, where he ran would have no weapons of mass destruction, relying upon its conventional forces for defense of the realm and where it was able to work out a stalemate with the invading forces from iraq under saddam hussein after eight years of disastrous costly and treasure and minimize war. so the record from the outset has been against the use of weapons of mass destruction. however, there is the capability and i know a little bit about capability. i've studied at for much of my adult life. it happens when i was assigned to iran as a diplomat in 1959 with my accompanied david landau, former head of the atomic energy commission on this trip around iran. he was in retirement. he was head of an energy company that worked at the plant organization of iran on its energy needs fo

we have more the -- what you call it, the hard-liners, the supporters of ayatollah khomeini. they don't want to give up their rights, that's one of the sticking points, the international committee has to verify that iran has the right to enrich uranium. in particularly the united states, but iran's -- i was following iran news media and actually, although in the last two weeks they've been showing some more negative picture that there has not been any progress, but today in fact the iranian media has been reporting that there has been some progress in geneva and they're hoping that a deal will be struck. >> majid, it's been goo good tok to you. thanks for your insight. we appreciate it. >>> from boston to washington to dallas. the nation paused to remember a president. and here are some moments of this day. [ bells ringing ] >> the man we remember today, gave us a gift that will not be squandered. the chance to learn how to face the future when it's the darkest and the most uncertain. how to hold high the torch even when the flame flickers and threatens to go out. we will mee

iran's leader, ayatollah khomeini said iran would slap aggressors in the face and called israel the rabid dog forcing secretary of state john kerry to reassure a skeptical congress that diplomacy remains a viable option. >> it's inflammatory and unnecessary. i think at this moment when we're trying to negotiate and figure out what can and can't be achieved, the last thing we needs are names and back and forth. >> yesterday majority leader harry reid would support diplomatic efforts for now, the administration would be given a finite window about a month to close a deal. >> we all strongly support those negotiations and hope they will succeed. however, mr. president, we're also aware of the possibility that iranians could keep negotiations from succeeding. preparing to move forward with bipartisan iran sanctions bill when senate returns after thanksgiving recess. >> sergey lavrov flew to geneva to jump-start the talks which are expected to extend into the weekend. joining me from geneva, nbc bureau chief ali arouzi. seems like the forces opposing the agreement are stronger than the ones pu

it is the religious leader named khomeini. the president's -- the presidents come and go but khomeini, the supreme leader, remains the same. his announced intentions are completely clear. iran seeks to be the hedge mono. in other words -- the hegemon. in other words, iran seeks to be the dominant power not only in the mideast region but they have evidence of dabbling in the far east, in china. in philippines. in south america. they intend to have their fingers in places all over the world because they intend to dominate. they intend to dominate with shia religion, they intend to dominate through the use of nuclear weaponry. through the most vile form of violence that there is in the world. in order to achieve their objectives. so again, let's look at what iran would have gotten had the nation of france not intervened and put a stop to this disastrous bill, thor disastrous effort and agreement -- or this disastrous effort and agreement that would have had the potential of changing the course of human history. here's what iran w

line, actually, though, it should be noted, crucially, the supreme leader in iran, the ayatollah khomeini is reportedly in favor of both the negotiations and the announced deal. and of course, the negotiations, let alone the deal, would not have happened if he was not on board with them. over here, we don't have an ayatollah, but the "washington post" editorial page has been a pretty good reminder of how aggressively hawkish toward iran even the supposedly liberal press is here in the united states. but check it out. "washington post" lead editorial on the agreement. yeah, it ticks off a list of things that they dislike about it, but bottom line, they are sort of kind of willing to embrace it, saying it is a "worthy interim step," saying it is "preferable to military action." for now, they say the prudent course is to "give diplomacy its chance." so, the president got to announce that deal in the middle of the night on a total surprise on a saturday night, basically at midnight. but then, wait! there's more! turns out that while the iranian foreign minister was in geneva to work on the nu

or do you see the ayatollah khomeini who is shouting, you know, death to america. death to israel? which is the real iran? >> i think the supreme leader is the real iran. >> the one who said death to america? >> yes. just last week he called israel a rabid dog. saying the rhetoric hasn't stopped. look, he is no moderate. no moderates were allowed to run in the iranian election. all the moderates were xluted. you had six hard-liners that were allowed to run. he is the most moderate. but he is still a hard-liner. it's not clear to me that he can make the decisions anyway. it's the supreme leader, khomeni, who can make the decisions. he hasn't shown any kind of moderation whatsoever. look, i think we have to use the next six months to make sure that iran dismantles the program and that they have no right to enrichment. they keep saying even as we speak they have a right tone richment. that troubles me. >> chairman royce, let me ask you as a final question. at this moment, what do you think is the worst that can happen over the next six months? and there is really not anything right no

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