. -- president ahmadinejad. what is happening, so many people who know iran didn't know anyone a part of these pro tests. -- >> is one of the most interesting features of what is happening. so many people who know iran didn't know anyone a part of these pro tests. it's worth noting, the numbers are different this time around from 2009, when the government talks about 40,000 hooligans that's their upper estimate of how many people have been participating in these protests, . even if it's off by a factor of 10, it's still significantly smaller than what happened in 2009. but, i think it's that question of deep alienation among the people who were expected to be the base in terms of the legitimacy of the islamic ,republic which came to power -- the islamic republic, which came to power and has consistently sought to enhance its legitimacy with its own people by talking about social justice, by talking about, you know, sort of the disenfranchised, the dispossessed. this was a major theme of the revolution. it's been

than a million people came out into the streets to protest the reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined with ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined by much larger crowds who support same bus ravi al-jazeera to her own. let's move on to other news now the awful of a book critical about donald trump a standing by his work saying it was based on some two hundred interviews publishes of the account of trump's first year in office release the book fire and fury early ignoring a legal challenge from the u.s. president to prevent its publication says the book is funny and full of lies don estival proposals from washington d.c. . crowd swarmed this washington bookstore at midnight friday snatching up copies of fire and fury inside the trump white house has of the criteria no i can't take your order of the phone politics and prose opened it ten am within thirty minutes eager buyers had nabbed all thirty copies the store had i'm super excited to read this i went to a couple different books

not if you have ahmadinejad. long --dash bit cloying. >> but then to use that with that hyperinflation with that regime. those are for very goodd reason. and also with retained value. and with the tax invasion. with those groups of criminals but also very nice bold to do business is with this guy. and that is very important so it could make sense economically so we do need to be affected by their actions to remind them of the risk like has below that is the narrower scope of the work. >> i have a question. so i work in compliance the link between venezuela and hezbollah started. how did that begin? >> a couple further pages along in that section knows how much he was bragging. how much it is true like if they get rid of chavez they will create another one. in their view they thought they had enough control that they would just create another regimeme and he said that but that one of the things we are collaborating i don't know how much i should say that over the last year parsing out thoseet relationships with ce

that's why many who voted for him in 1997 and wanted change voted for ahmadinejad. and then four years later, we had the green movement and the revolutionary guard again had a scenario for the inevitable protests that would happen after rigging the vote. and as you said, their scenario at that time was that these protesters are led by certain people within the reform movement who are being directed by foreigners, so, when i was arrested, for example, maybe 90% of my interrogation was not about what i did. it was about what they wanted me to confess, that i had put so-and-so in touch with foreign embassies. they were asking me to give the details of how i put in with the british embassy, i'd never met met. and you know, they were saying that other people are confessing, why didn't you confess and you know, so, that's-- i didn't confess, so i was saved because of that. but this time around, i think the revolutionary guards, the people who are in charge of iman khomeini foundation and supporting 10 million families across the country and many imams who pride themselves

and people became disappointed in reform that is why they wanted change because they voted for ahmadinejad in and the revolutionary guard had the scenario for its protest but that protesters are led by certain people who are directed by others so if i was arrested for example, may be 90% of my interrogation is not what i did but they wanted me to confess. they would ask me to keep the details and something that i had not even ever met. and they said other people are confessing and i was saved because of that but this time around i think the revolutionary guard and people in charge of the foundation support 10 million across the country many pride themselves to be in touch with the poor and many conservative leaders and religious leaders around the country as a result the revolutionary guard came up with the same theory about two or three nights ago. on iranian television and also going back opportunity to settle scores to say that ahmadinejad was involved they did not mention him by name but high-ranking former official. and then the revolutionary guard was interrogated two nights ago on i

. -- mahmoud ahmadinejad. under obama him they were silenced. he doesn't say what the government plans to do but says the u.s. stands with the protesters and critiques the eu and the u.n. for not doing anything so far. thee: in india members of doll at community have been leading a march against the government. and protests have virtually paralyzed the city of mumbai since monday. and the untouchables are leading the protests against the government calling upon the indian government to respect and recognize their rights. ofs making the front page the times of india which has a rather cynical take on the dalitnt calling the citizens mobs. the independent has a really good summary of why exactly they are protesting. this conflict dates back to new year's day when tens of thousand of dalit people traveled to a small village to commemorate the bicentennial of a battle between british forces and hindu rulers in which the dalit actually fought alongside the british. hindu nationalists and attacked the group of dalits and actually killed one man. the i

than a million people came out into the streets to protest the reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined by much larger crowds who support. us president trump has gone on another tirade calling the author of a book detailing his first year in office a total. that's already been a hit with leaders with american bookstores on able to keep fire and fury stocks and on the shelves trump slams the work as phony and full of lies kind of proportion washington d.c. . crowd swarmed this washington bookstore at midnight friday snatching up copies of fire and fury inside the trump white house has of the crater in our community of the phone politics and prose opened it ten am within thirty minutes eager buyers had nabbed all thirty copies the store had i'm super excited to read this i went to a couple different bookstores even midnight last night there was another bookstore selling this they sold out in twenty minutes why are you so interested in this book why would i not be interested in this book it is so salacious and to see. poli

than a million people came out into the streets to protest the reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined by much larger crowds who support. the. united nations is investigating last month's attack in the democratic republic of congo that killed fifteen of its peacekeepers u.n. suspects the allied democratic forces a gander an armed group was behind the attack it's faces a known to be active in congress north kivu province where the assault took place and says it will examine the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the tanzanian nationals and make recommendations. the threat of political violence is casting a shadow over the need up to mexico's twenty presidential election for the murders of six public officials mexico is coming out of its most violent year in history and more than twenty three thousand homicides in twenty seventeen as drug cartels fought for territory. reports. local politics can be a dangerous business in mexico just ask catalyst people thirty year old political hopeful who wants to become mayor of

than a million people came out into the streets to protest the reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined by much larger crowds who support same bus ravi al-jazeera to her. french president tomorrow macron has warned his turkish counterpart that democracies must respect the rule of law during a meeting between the two leaders in paris the visit to france was recip typer one's first since the failed two thousand and sixteen coup and one of only a handful to europe he was confronted by a dozen human rights protesters who were attempting to block his arrival to the he said palace cross said that recent developments in turkey did not allow any progress on its e.u. session. but turkey is ruled by law europe's always tells us that the judiciary must be independent while in turkey our judiciary is independent they make their own decisions independently. terror does not just happen after the public or those who support terror they water it they prime it they're like gardeners who grow plants they nourish terror. but. i really do

he didn't mention ahmadinejad by name. a high-ranking former official. his name is mahmoud. he could have said that. then the revolutionary guards who is an interrogator two nights ago on iranian television suggests that it was, american, saudi, israeli plans and they come up with this really strange ideas that each social media is playing role for the american intelligence. that twitter is supposed to be organizing. instagram is supposed to be a messaging service. so they don't really know as well. >> they're struggling for a narrative? >> they're struggling for a narrative. because they see all these disparate slogans as well. they're surprised some of these 40,000 holly begans, efforts in support of the shah. i have not had a chance to ask the revolutionary gadd, why do we have 40,000 hooligans in the country. who are these hooligans? accept there are 40,000 hooligans. how come we have not been able to rehabilitate 40,000 hooligans risking their lives to be killed? what are the economic background of these hooligans and who are these people coming to streets? we has journ

just like ahmadinejad. >> i tolla khomeini runs the -- the. >> ayatollah * khomeini runs the country.t has done nothing but enhance corruption. bryan suits, thank you so much. coming up, democrats optimistic about taking control of congress. howard kurtz joins me next. at fidelity, trades are now just $4.95. we cut the price of trades to give investors even more value. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage. fidelity, where smarter investors will always be. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage. so we know how to cover almost almoanything.hing even a swing set standoff. and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ they appear out of nowhere. my secret visitors. hallucinations and delusions. the unknown parts of living with parkinson's. what plots they unfold, but only in my mind. over 50% of people with parkinson's will experience hallucinations or delusions during the course of their disease. if your loved one is experiencing these symp

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was whether their candidates, the so-called green movement candidates should have won or whether ahmadinejadhould have been reelected. there was no question that the regime would stay in place. that is not what these demonstrators are saying. they're saying death to khamenei, the supreme leader. they're talking about getting out of the revolutionary guard imperialist operations in lebanon and syria and yemen and elsewhere. it really, it threatens the very foundations of the regime. i think that is one reason it is so shocking to the authorities. david: one of the demonstrations, the thoughting was, we don't want an islamic republic. that is really significant. it really does, as you say challenge the fundamental idea of what iran is. i'm just wondering if, by some miracle these protesters do end up somehow in charge, there would probably be a counterrevolution, would there not? there are a lot of -- as wonderful as these folks are, willing to put their life on the line for freedom, there are a lot of people that do support this regime, no? >> well, most important support comes from the islam

the and on the other hand you have hardline conservatives who aligned with the clerics and the ahmadinejad what's interesting is that it was much more of a rural populist and he was much more liked in those parts of the country than rouhani is. rouhani has had to do a lot of things that had a bad impact for your average working-class person in the rural parts of iran. he's cut subsidies way back that was simply not sustainable, the system he took over. he had to make a lot of reforms that cause a lot of pain in the lives of people. julia: up next, what unicorn frappuccinos and trending hashtags might tell us about economic growth in 2018. carol: plus, to raise rates or not to raise rates. that is the question. the tale of two curves. julia: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ julia: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm julia chatterley. carol: i'm carol massar. you can listen to us on radio on channel 119 and a.m. in new york, boston, and the bay area. julia: and in london and asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. in the economic section, several social trends in 2017 that may h

ability to take an opportunity with the revolution june of 2009 with those protesters, protest ing ahmadinejad's election. we're at a point where there's obviously lots of criticism of the iran deal here. president trump is poised to perhaps withdraw from it early in this year and then, of course, in the streets of iran, the people are saying that the deal that president rouhani drew up with our government has failed to give them the economic relief that he sold it to do. and so it really is -- it's an interesting moment that everyone is praising president trump's response. but he has to follow through not only in sort of intervening with social media platforms and staying with these protests in order to take advantage of an opportunity. and you have senator lindsey graham and former ambassador to the u.n. john bolton saying it's time for a regime change in iran. >> it gets complicated, clearly, john avlon. it's one thing to make the statements on twitter, which is further than president obama did, that is something, but what next here is complicated particularly when the supreme leader of iran

is the administration have any reaction to the reports of the arrest of former iranian president ahmadinejad leading a protest against the regime? >> not at this time. francesca. reporter: about the president this morning and fisa, he said it may have been used to fight the act of surveillance used in campaigns. what specifically was he talking about may, abused and surveilled. >> i think this is something we've talked about many times before. there are a lot of things that indicate there was surveillance at trump tower, and i'm not sure what the clarification is needed on that front. reporter: thanks, sarah. two questions for you. first, a few days ago you said the white house did not have any reaction to the transcript that was released by senator feinstein related to fusion gps. is the president aware of the transcript and have reaction to the fbi references within the transcript on what was said by the gentleman? >> we certainly think it's a gross overstep by senator feinstein to release that transcript. there's been a lot of comments about obstruction of justice, and frankly the only pe

may add what makes today different and today they can resolve the country's problems in spite of ahmadinejad's best efforts, as far as we can tell it is still a smaller road of gdp than the united states and the deficits are smaller. deficits are in bad shape but nothing compares like cyprus. it is like ordinary or italy or spain and we have a lot of experience and a lot of people could provide good advice about what to do but it is impressive dithering about the modest changes of the central bank authority. they're not talking about setting up a bad bank with bad loans when doing those things that you have to do with the serious banking crisis. that isn't the scale that we saw in cyprus or iceland. they dealt very effectively with their crisis. it is the inability to take tough decisions that is the fundamental problem and it is quite possible and similarly one can imagine policies that are directed at ordinary people or see the rainy and government is looking out the funny ways to cut spending and hitting the poor with no trickle-down. it isn't necessary. quite frankly to come up with a diff

there's a london-basised "arab daily" that reports ex-president mahmoud ahmadinejad had been arrested allegedly inciting anti-government protests. have you heard of this? have you seen what's going on there? >> i've seen the report. i have not been able to confirm it. here's one of the things that's happening here is there is a lot of misinformation out there as well, which has also led to some people taking a step back and actually not joining the protests because they're not so sure where all of this is comin disadvantageous to the protesters who have legitimate grievances and need to make sure the government starts listening to them on these issues of economic and political injustice. >> what's the end game here? >> that's part of the problem. when i talk to people who are quite involved in the green movement, they are very hesitant about this because they don't see an end game. a lot of people are raising the issue that without a leadership, how do you make sure the protests turn into political change rather than turning iran into syria. this is causing a lot of question marks, et

than a million people came out into the streets to protest the reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined by much larger crowds who support. up to one on mike hanna is following developments at the united nations he joins us now in like it was of course u.s. ambassador nikki haley who called for an emergency meeting but does she have support from other council members. well that's something we're going to find out within the next hour because there is a meeting called just over an hour's time called by russia which is will be a closed meeting no doubt they are attempting at the last moment to persuade her not to move this into public discussion in the security council should they fail the security council will then open the proceedings they will then it is likely be a procedural vote which russia will demand path what this means is that nikki haley needs to get nine of the fifteen members to agree to discuss this matter in the security council the issue of iran has not been on the agenda a number of council members even t

than a million people came out into the streets to protest the reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined by much larger crowds who support. our well that's a picture and tear on that says makes my kind who joins us live now from the u.n. in new york and we were just looking at the pictures of the u.n. council chamber a lot of milling about you getting a stairs to what's going on. well a trifle confusing at the moment nick there has just been a harf hour meeting behind closed doors which this vote was most likely discussed russia likely to be making its objections to discussing publicly what it sees as an internal domestic matter this is a public position that russia has adopted in recent days since the us ambassador announced that she was going to press for a security council meeting on the issue now the security council meeting about to get underway there's various ways it could go if russia continues to press its protest it may call for a procedural vote that would require nine of the members of the security council to

than a million people came out into the streets to protest the reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined by much larger crowds who support. up to what. is a professor of politics at the university of tennessee joins me from chattanooga via skype good have you with us live on the program said that the protests seem to have died down for the moment but this has rattled the establishment but one wonders up to what level a lot of effect it's had. you know. what always. realize that there are all. on earth mass uprising and outrage in ninety three ninety eight in two thousand and seven in two thousand and nine. last uprising and the question in this particular case it is slightly different there isn't it because the protests have no sort of dissed discernable leader some might say no direction because different protests in different parts of iran insisted on different issues to be tackled by the government but these issues have to be dealt with in a meaningful way by the authorities now president rouhani has said he will deal

than a million people came out into the streets to protest the reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined by much larger crowds who support. assistant professor of politics at the university of tennessee he says the protests are dropping off because they lack a clear direction. if you know that a lot and that just a chant of. earth now we realize that the people are all all of them actually knowing what they don't what they are chanting against their stomach the public policy it is about a politician was a leader and the president an islamic. you know as establishment as adult in terms of policy except our policy pulled have been criticized by the protesters so they do what they don't want what exactly the problem is they don't know what they want they have little chance of the skull getting in favor of the monarchy the life i didn't want to be and to think that they have the spark against even the republic you know there's limited public oligarchic groups there is a small core concepts about the clergy an amendment. out

biggest protests in iran since 2009's "green movement," when masses accused then-president mahmoud ahmadinejadrigging his re- election. security forces swiftly and harshly cracked down on that uprising. this time, the response has been somewhat more restrained. president hassan rouhani acknowledged sunday that many iranians haven't seen the economic benefits they were promised after the signing of the iran nuclear deal. >> ( translated ): so the people have a right to criticize, all over the country. but, criticism is entirely different from violence. while those responsible in our country must respect the grounds for legal complaints of the people, at the same time, we must not allow the creation of an atmosphere where supporters of the revolution and our people worry about their lives and security. >> brangham: today, officials in najafabad, in western iran, said protesters shot at police, killing one and injuring three more. other officials warned the demonstrators will "pay the price." >> ( translated ): those who carry out acts of sabotage, riot and unrest, and set fire to public and priv

ahmadinejad's best efforts to still everything that wasn't nailed down, government is still small relative to gdp in the united states. the banking system is in bad shape, but boy, nothing compares compared to the situation in iceland or cyprus. it's more like italy and spain. and we have lots of experience on how to deal with these things, we have lots of people who can provide good advice such as the imf and other institutions, on what to do. what has been impressive they , spent two years dithering in theodest changes central bank's authority, and they did not spend it talking about setting up a bad bag with -- a bank with loans. you have a real serious banking crisis. it's nothing like the scale of a banking crisis we saw in cyprus and in iceland, to countries -- two countries which dealt very effectively with their banking. so the inability of the authorities to take a tough decision that is the fundamental problem here. in fact, it would be quite possible to resolve these economic problems. similarly, even though there's been reasonable economic growth, one could imagine a set of eco

i mean, in spite of ahmadinejad best efforts to do everything that wasn't nailed down and lots of things that were nailed down, as far as we can tell they government debt is still smaller relative to gdp than your states. deficit is smaller. the banking systems in that shape but boy, nothing compared to the situation of the country like iceland or cyprus. it is frankly kind of like ordinary, more like greece or italy and spain. and where lots of experience how to deal with these things. there are lots of people who can provide advice from international monetary fund, other institutions about what to do. but it's impressive they spent two years dithering about what our modest changes in central banks authority and they have talk about setting up a bad bank that has all the bad loans and recapitalizing the banking system and other things you have to do we have a real serious banking problem. nothing like the scale of the banking crisis that we saw in cyprus and in iceland, two countries that have dealt very effectively with that banking crisis. it's the inability of the 40s to take tough d

protest are very different from the post election protest in 2019 where many people believe mahmoud ahmadinejadsts whether the regime survives or not. that makes it much more threatening to the ayatollahs. much more dangerous and raises the stakes considerably. i think president trump has already signaled a huge difference by the obama administration by supporting the protest. we need to do more. we do not want to make the same mistake that america made before 15 calling opposition out in hungry and standing by and watching as the soviet crushed the opposition. saddam hussein in 1991 caused that regime to stand by where saddam massacred her iraqis. we need to provide assistance. it this is yet another reason why the president should get out of the nuclear deal with iran. should resume all of our previous sanctions putting increased economic pressure on the regime. we should provide material financial support to the opposition if they desire it work with intelligence other countries to put on pressure. we should do it. our regime change in iran. peter: ambassador bolton thank you very much. happ

pete: mahmoud ahmadinejad or iran if they are worried about violent statements.bility, his access to free speech and his first amendment right to be able to tweet out what he wants and to communicate with twitter users and to voters. so, again, these contradictory narratives that we are seeing from critics on the left and some from the media. griff: not just critics. pete: the left you mean the media? lisa: be partisan a little bit. griff: he has said time and time again that he wanted to speak over that media, that has been so nasty to him and speak directly to his base. but the thing whether he intended to or not is he has found a way to create headlines within that biased media operation in and of itself. and that is the protest, i think, they are like look, we have got to shut it down because is he creating the headlines. pete: disrupted their news cycle. he makes the news. let us know friends@foxnews.com. did twitter make the right call? lisa: yeah, what do you think? pete: let us know. nancy pelosi she called the republican tax bill, you remember, this arma