khomeini era." and so i got in the complete time of his rule in iran. c-span: why the name "in the name of god?" >> guest: because that's the basis, the justification, for everything iran has done over this decade, carried out in the name of god, be it acts of violence against the united states, the war with iraq, the taking of hostages. both domestic and foreign policy were shaped around god's laws and carried out in god's name. c-span: did you ever meet khomeini? >> guest: no, i didn't. i met several members of his family and talked to them at great length, and they offered some unusual insight, but in the last years of his life, khomeini was never interviewed. it was the first period that when he got back, when noriana falachi and various other people who were there at the time got to see him. c-span: who in his family did you meet? >> guest: i met his son, ahmed, who is a very powerful man in his own right now. i met his daughter, who has some very interesting kind of family type stories about w

this is where i saw one of the offspring of ayatollah khomeini. what is a leading women's rights activist. she again went back to the nuclear deal and says if you get the nuclear deal, that opens the door for other things to happen. everybody is waiting. waiting. that is why this year is very important because it is not just the nuclear deal. it is everything that the u.s. would like to happen in iran. it is on the line with the nuclear deal as well. that is the tragedy of the possibility of senate sanctions. that by doing that, the senate thinks that it is doing something that will help achieve american goals when it could be the most counterproductive thing that the u.s. does in terms of its very own goals. >> just a brief comment. if you talk to demographers, they will tell you that one of the most striking developments in the world is the radical decline in birth rates among the women in iran. they have just kind of fallen off a cliff. actually, there are sharp declines in fertility in many other muslim countries as well. this is one of the un

nuclear aspirations a single individual involves the strings, the supreme leader, the grand ayatollah khomeini. of course on the of the side of the table there may be no other religious figure behind the curtain. but the ability of the president in u.s., france, china, russia, the british prime minister or the chancellor of germany are constrained when it comes to arriving at a bargain on the transfer but it issue a restraining the nuclear power program. president obama has problems with a broad swath of congress and fevers rather than loosening them and would prefer iran to return to the telephones and candles. the presidents of russia and china have their hands tied still as well. what is holding both back. when president putin want them to be perceived by much of the world as effective pariahs. which brings us to the next set of the strings on the power of today's imperial presidency. the international image. in earlier times as possible for the leader to conclude the pact with no reference to the forces outside of the immediate entourage. at the conference that led to the treaty of versail

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this is what her book looks like, "in the name of god: the khomeini decade." thank you very much for joining us. >> guest: thank you. .. enjoy the authors ape their books. you're watching booktv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup for tonight. >>> up next on booktv michael allen, majority staff protecter of committee on intelligence provides an insider's account of restructuring of the u.s. intelligence system after 9/11. this program is just over an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the new america foundation. i'm peter bergen. i run the national security program here. it's with a lot of pleasure that we goat welcome mike allen to talk about his new book. >> thank you. >> and he's had a distinguished career, most recently in the government as chief staff on the house intelligence committee. he sent seven years in -- at the national security council and the george w. bush administration. he managed to writ book and have two young sons and set up a very successful new business. all in the space -- and continuing working on the hill at the same time. so

like khomeini of the road politically close to more scared than to europe. we are the gregorian family catches the festivities off to the facts reach it. it starts to get away from the dam wall paper and got cats. we loaded up on you or think things will get the ball up especially with the new mayor of a faithful friend and cognition is for us we're working for our children this is going to have a good lawyer. when making an effort to get them employed. think means nothing. it was not as jihadists and enhanced has changed a lot as did nothing to people who are now. like in your face instead of smiling faces so that the guys who didn't see the short term signing and playing a straight seam nothing like america around the children making the right thing. there's still a lot of work to keep most of the parks that once made residents ground having been rebuilt. and the city's industrial parks middle of the us. schools and hospitals have risen from the ruins and the human race children the wheel of fortune may be turning the light. people of armenia still living

the ayatollah khomeini, the marxists, communists supported the ayatollah brise.x months later blocked a. cautionary tale for the left today. don't be so shortsighted and naÏve. i'm not optimistic to change your mind. >> i just want to send with this. israel has a robust gay community. in iran and gaza, we have no problems. they're executed. when israel's community one at to participate in a gay rights parade in europe, they would not let them become the occupation. so this perfectly illustrates eric's point. there is this horrible kind of collusion between the extreme left. >> have also come out against the acquittal of george zimmerman. >> anyway, thank you so much. i want everybody to buy this book. go to amazon.com. we'll have to have a bigger room. [inaudible conversations] selma .. a tradition that dates back to reconstruction. he argues that and non-violence of the civil-rights era helped bury this back to black history. this program is about an hour. >> so, it strikes me as an important intervention in three ways. one in the historiography of the black fre

i went to see khomeini is granddaughter who is a leading women's rights activist, and she talked aboutine women's rights. if there is a nuclear deal, the president will be all the more empowered to do things on other issues, including rights for women. they have a sense that they really want this deal. and that is i think to the advantage of the nuclear team. for all the obstacles they face from the hard-liners who still control the judiciary, still control the legislature, there is a real public mood in favor of a deal. and i think to answer the question, the amount of that surprised me. >> same page? >> well, a couple of surprises or just things that i was able to see that might interest you. i got to know a first rate from what i can tell, really world class scientists, molecular biologist, somebody who is doing work dealing with neurodegenerative disease like what my daughter's now young doctor was working on in the labs. is a person who has very commercial ideas who's nervous about starting a company in the country that isn't part of the wto because she can't protect intellectual

that's the offspring of ayatollah khomeini. she again went back to the nuclear deal and says if you get the nuclear deal, that opens the door for other things to happen. everybody is waiting. waiting. that is why this year is very important because it is not just the nuclear deal. it is everything that the u.s. would like to happen in iran. it is on the line with the nuclear deal as well. that is the tragedy of the possibility of senate sanctions. that by doing that, the senate thinks that it is doing something that will help achieve american goals when it could be the most counterproductive thing that the u.s. does in terms of its very own goals. >> just a brief comment. if you talk to demographers, they will tell you that one of the most striking developments in the world is the radical decline in birth rates among the women in iran. they have just kind of fallen off a cliff. actually, there are sharp declines in fertility in many other muslim countries as well. this is one of the unnoted fascinating facts in the world. in ir

nuclear aspirations a single individual involves the strings, the supreme leader, the grand ayatollah khomeiniurse on the of the side of the table there may be no other religious figure behind the curtain. but the ability of the president in u.s., france, china, russia, the british prime minister or the chancellor of germany are constrained when it comes to arriving at a bargain on the transfer but it issue a restraining the nuclear power program. president obama has problems with a broad swath of congress and fevers rather than loosening them and would prefer iran to return to the telephones and candles. the presidents of russia and china have their hands tied still as well. what is holding both back. when president putin want them to be perceived by much of the world as effective pariahs. which brings us to the next set of the strings on the power of today's imperial presidency. the international image. in earlier times as possible for the leader to conclude the pact with no reference to the forces outside of the immediate entourage. at the conference that led to the treaty of versailles and