. >> watching your piece reminded me of something i heard earlier this week, which was mahmoud ahmadinejadhe audience that there were no gays in iran. has anything changed since then? especially under the newest president. >> i started working on this topic since 2006 when i heard this from mahmoud ahmadinejad. i was back in iran and i started finding out what gay, lesbian, and transgender life back in iran. i can't say anything from the government side changes, i mean, in the past seven, eight year but i can say society is changing and more people are accepting -- i mean, the issue. and they are speaking about it and they are quite supporting. but, i mean, iran is a big country, and it is not about cities, for example. you just watched that story about marie. she is from a very small city in iran, and she was saying -- when i ask her that okay, do you think if you were born in canada you were accepted as a feminine man, and she was like, i still don't know if it's really possible for a feminine man to live in canada freely without any sort of harassment or being bullied. so they still do

and president mahmoud ahmadinejad tried to use authority that he did not have and move forward. rouhani has not touched any of the outlines there. he is a technician of the state, so he -- if you are looking at the soviet model, he is not shaking things up. but as i said, in absence of an agreement, both sides, i think, have an interests in negotiations, and the negotiation table has been in existence for 12 years, since 2003, and the reason why it has been that way because everybody has a utility for the take to continue. iran -- neither power, i think, will suggest that want to go back to mutual escalation. but i would say at some point if there's an interim agreement, at some point iranians will walk away from it the way they walked away from the agreement between 2003 and 2005. they will walk away from it when they are ready to introduce new technologies, high-speed center tpaoupblgs and what have you, and when that happens, when the restrictions collide with the technological capabilities, i think you will see them walk away from it. >> joel? >> i think the question about t

but mada mahmoud ahmadinejad std to take shape. in december of that year, the u.n. security council approved the first round of sacks against iran. but by 2011 with iran still failing to comply with international demands, washington upped the anteand barred foreign financial institutions from conduct oil transactions with iran's central bank. measures that would culminate in europe block iran's access to the international payment system. prevented iran from receiving payment for crude oil, by far its most valuable export. it was a game changing move that would ultimately force iran to the nuclear negotiating table. >> it really surprised them and not only had they not been able to go around these sanctions, they had admit to themselves there was no way around it. >> in 2013 under the leadership of newly elected reformist president hasan rouhani, the deadline is looming to achieve a comprehensive deal the question is no longer if sanctions will work, but when. patricia sabga, al jazeera. >> iraqi civilians including women and children were killed during an air strike

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but in 2006,newal elected hard line presidentm mahmoud ahmadinejad am sees a vote on iran.ovember, 20s november, 20s 11, president obama. >>> a break through with iran agreeing to curb portions of its nuclear program in exchange for a partial lifting of sanctions. with a deadline in the latest round of talks looming, opinion is divided whether accord could be reached you. iran's hist with the u.s. is bound to enter a new phase, patricia sabga, al jazeera. troop there for training and for counter terrorism with al-qaeda. the president decided to authorize a more expansive mission for the military. it ensures a direct role in fighting in the war-ravaged country for at least another year. after sending 12 years, audi national mohammed al razani. the pentagon says he will take part in a saudi program to rehabilitate militants. the 13th person released this year. a report by the house intelligence committee says the cia and the u.s. military acted appropriately during attacks on the facilities in benjamghazi t years ago. it dismissed allegations that the public was misled. the r

i was there to interview then president mahmoud ahmadinejad.t the time, america's relationships with the allies at that point was many low points. ahmadinejad seemed to get great pleasure from spouting his anti-western rhetoric. it's possible that in less than a month's time iran will sign a nuclear deal with the west. but what does iran look like beneath all this high politics? that is what anthony bourdain went to find out when he visited the country for an episode of "parts unknown" that airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. we sat down recently to compare notes. so you did the thing most american negotiators haven't yet done, which is actually go to iran. >> yeah. and an incredible experience. what we saw inside iran was extraordinary, heartbreaking, confusing, inspiring, and very, very different than the iran i expected from always -- from looking at it from afar, from a geopolitical sense, what we read on the news, what we know about that long and contentious relationship we've had as nations. >> what do you think was the most surprising thing to you

you know the election between ahmadinejad many people felt he had bon and then they announced mahmoud ahmadinejad4 to 39. some crazy numbers. millions of iranians came out on to the street and demanded a recount. they weren't looking for revolution. they weren't overlooking the regime. >> was this guy one of them? was he sympathetic to the movement. >> sympathetic to the idea that the iranian people deserve a carved out space for expression and freedom and honest election. >> is that why they -- him up? >> no. they had a theory that the only reason people took to the street is that western sabators had been put in touch with informists on the ground. >> he was a western sabator. >> he was a western journalist. someone from lop done covering it for "newsweek." he came in and he filmed some broo tattle that occurred on the streets from the administration to -- from the regime to some of the protesters. and that may have triggered it but they had arrested thousands of people. >> some still languish in prison. is this anti-iranian government film? not the people, the government. >> look, they did thi

. >> mahmoud ahmadinejad was never the leader of iran it's always been the supreme leader. >> third lettera administration by this leader. guess what, he ignored the other two letters. why would they think this would be any different. >> they want this to get this done. >> conditions being negotiated and incredibly fragile. we don't know what is going to happen. there will be a backlash in iran and u.s. >> what do would get out of this deal? >> global security. we get a step glawrd global security? we are arming a nuclear iran that's global security? i would call that global i object security. >> absolutely. this is the administration is dealing with a regime that is islamist and violent rather than dealing with the people of iran. in 2008 there was iranian revolution and obama administration backed down and did not support the people and prefer to deal with the regime. >> realistically though, again, this is isis, content of these letters, we have no allies willing to step up in the fight. >> you just said it wasn't about isis. you just said it was about the nuclear deal. >> no one else.

. >> reports surfaced hardlinem mahmoud ahmadinejad, iran changed course.ew president de ly celebrated iran's return to uranium enrichment even though the hurricane. >> security council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on iran in 2006. >> he squanderred billions of dollars of iran's oil revenue while he was president from 2005 to 2013. in those eight years, he brought about huge damage to the iranian economy. >> by 2013, iran's oil exports were cut in half by sanctions with mahmoud ahmadinejad barred from seeking a third term by iran's constitution, rouhani promised a new attitude to the outside world. >> this is a country, unlike sort of dictatorships out there or authoritarian systems, if i want to call it that, relies on trading with the rest of the world. >> with a phone call several months later, president rouhani and president obama had the first high-level contact between the u.s. and iran in 34 years. it paved the way for these it nearly year-long nuclear negotiations during which iran's nuclear program has been suspended. some of the supply di

following the election of mahmoud ahmadinejad. on that day bahari, an iranian/canadian reporter from "newsweek" was taken from his mother's house, arrested, and thrown in iran's notorious prison. he would be held there for 118 days in solitary confinement. he wrote a terrific book about that ordeal. that has has been turned into a movie called "rose water." it comes from the perfume that his interrogator used. it was a story i'm intimately familiar with. i was involved in the campaign to free bahari. the movie was able to shock me, move me. it is a highly intelligent and moving film. joining me are a maziar bahari and this other guy, an unknown first time filmmaker by the name of jon stewart. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you >> what do you think of the green revolution? . did it fail, did it succeed? >> well, i think if we think of it as a revolution, it failed, but it was never a revolution. it was a green movement. it was a movement of millions of iranians to gain their rights as citizens of the country. they did not want

. >> and even the gentleman who was running against mahmoud ahmadinejad, mr.house arrest. >> he still is. >> you know, the night before i left i left iran, my interrogator who we call mr. rosewater in the film, he told me you should never talk about what happened in prison, otherwise we can always bring you back in a bag. >> wow. >> that's why i'm here, talking to you. >> the movie is based, obviously o a book you wrote a best seller -- new york times best seller. how close to the book is the real experience? it must have been harrowing to watch the real life experience play out on film. >> jon stewart and i worked on the script together. jon wanted to be the producer of the film in the beginning when we started talking about it, but after a year and a half, when we couldn't find a writer who was free, who could -- who was interested, who was not working on "fast & furious," we decided to work on the script together. i was involved in writing the script. i was on the set every day. so, the film is a good adaptation of the book. of course, it's a cinematic adap

demonstrations and mass arrests after reformer mir hossein mousavi's challenge to president mahmoud ahmadinejaded in a defeat widely condemned and discredited as fraudulent. the film shows how bahari, played by actor gael garcia bernal, met and interviewed protaganists on both sides, before being arrested and charged as a spy. he then endures interrogation by a man known only as "rosewater". one bit of absurdist "evidence": an actual appearance in a tehran cafe bahari had made on the comedy central program, "the daily show". >> who is the number one enemy of the united states? >> al qaeda. >> it is also our number one enemy. >> are you going to back up and go out of frame that way. that connection, and the courage and even humor shown by bahari even in the face of torture, drew the real-life host of the daily show, jon stewart, to the story, and to his first foray into directing a feature film. the two would become good friends, and then collaborators. they told me about it when we met earlier this week at the newseum in washington. >> it was compelling in the generational aspects of it, his fa

you remember the previous president mahmoud ahmadinejad in who in fiery public speeches would often makell to wipe israel off the map. the supreme leader in this series of tweets -- you see this picture up there now -- he had a ten point plan he tweeted out. this is the world we live in, right? the supreme leader of iran is leading out a ten-point plan on this. he takes a different tack here. rather than saying this should be done with force or military action but it should be done with a referendum where the people in palestine and israel, what iran calls the whole area, palestine, that they would vote to see what to do with the jewish israelis and, of course, his assumption being that they would vote that they get pushed out. it's another tack trying to cloak this very combative tone towards israel in a legal structure but it comes from the same place and it really shows you that in iran you have this division because from the current president hassan rouhani and you will have friendly words but from the supreme leader who holds the power in iran you have a very different tack. >> it's

the president mahmoud ahmadinejad to try ahmadinejad to try to tried to essentially usurp the authority that he didn't have and move forward. he hasn't touched any of those red wines. he's kind of a technician of the state so if you are looking at the soviet model he's not shaking things up. but as i said in the absence of the agreement they have the preservation of the negotiations and the negotiating table has been in existence for 12 years since 2003 and the reason it's been negotiated because we have a way for the table to continue and as it suggested they want to go back to the mutual escalation but i would say at some point there is an agreement in some point they will walk away from it the way they walked away from the agreement between 2003 and 2005. they will walk away from it when they are ready to introduce the technologies into centrifuges, what have you. when that happens, the restrictions of the interim agreement, and with the technological capabilities i think you'll see them walk away from it. >> i think the question about the balancing act is an interesting one. so, mos