in the mid-1990s, ayatollah khamenei was on the extreme right spectrum. this is because he has perceived a growing threat to his authority. there has been a lot of criticism. not just from the left, but also from the moderate and members of the right. this has led to iranian hostility towards the united states. he is still beholden to the group that supports him. there have been occasions of pragmatism. iran played a crucial role in establishing the karzai government. the love controlled the of fuel -- the few key theocracies. they were controlled by the left. this allowed ayatollah khamenei to say that he is not engage in the united states. -- not engage in the united states. of course, he wanted to open air run -- open iran to a more democratic society. he ultimately failed. you then had mahmoud ahmadinejad become president. they have pursued more radical foreign policy. the upcoming presidential collection will be a critical juncture. the correct president can facilitate engagement. i do not think that mahmoud ahmadinejad is the right choice because of

ayatollah khamenei, iran's leader said the people have chosen who they want as president. delivering a sermon, he backed state reelection of president ahmadinejad. he said, but people have identified who they wanted. we are talking about economy. from massachusetts on the independent line. caller: my remark in this, i think we are using the wrong model for inflation. i think the alan greenspan type of model, where he always insists that if wages go up, that is the cause of inflation. we have seen wages stagnant for 30 years. we have seen an explosion and housing prices -- in housing prices. they'd to devalue the dollar. a dollar that i turned 30 years ago was worth a lot more than it is at today. inflation is down, according to alan greenspan's confederate model. i think we need to use a new contacts, context to determine what causes inflation. inflation on an international level, it is monetary. low wages is not the solution to inflation, it is the cause. i think we have to as a nation, embraces a new business model, and a new social model. i think that is one of the thin

his guess, fairly inform, was that the ayatollah khamenei wanted a big victory from -- for ahmadinejad. the word went out. they all became overly successful, getting into the 60's, when they probably needed an election of 57%, not 62%. they overplayed their hand. all of the thousands of people who are responsible, and the boat got higher than the regime expected. -- vote got higher than the regime expected. it strain plausibility. you might not have had people in the streets were not for a small percentage. guest: 1972, nixon decided to manipulate that election a little bit. guest: i would not want to comment on that. guest: i am saying that the over the top behavior is something that the government wanted to do and it has come back at them. host: basically, according to this, "we cannot fight their battles for them nor, as conservative hawks fantasize, trigger regime change." saying that the president is doing what needs to. guest: we are all guessing. not just republicans and the old guard feria -- old guard. . the secretary of state has been urging all week that the president change

ayatollah khamenei sending out audio tapes with messages of persuasion and propaganda for years.e was using what was the high technology of audio tapes. he was able to give millions in the street. now we have got twitter and facebook. >> remember, ted koppel started nightline that way. that is how it started in the u.s., broadcasting every night about those hostages. host: is this your first time on c-span? guest: years ago, i was not quite communications director, but i might as well have been. we talked about third parties in a round-table discussion. we talked about ross perot and a third parties would make any difference. interesting, not a segue, but we talk about the deficit. ross perot made people aware of the deficit and deficit spending. that was in 1992, when i came to washington and work on the first clinton campaign. host: tony blankley, on this official day of summer, that is definitely a summer suit. you can wear that for the next three months. [laughter] kentucky, good morning. caller: i want to comment on this iran situation. i am so sick and tired of everybody ho

to do much more than it did to prevent the ayatollah khamenei from assuming power. that was my position. i never had any illusions that he would result in a regime that was liberal, democratic, progressive. nonetheless, i have been asked by the iranians recently to appear on iranian television, to discuss the relationship. they wanted me to discuss it with one of the key advisers to the supreme leader. i said i would not do it on that basis, because i have no assurance that that will not become a rather hostile debate between the two of us. i see no merit in rehashing the past. so i would rather appear on a television in which journalists would ask me questions and i lay out my point of view. they agreed to that. they taped 27 minutes, i said nothing would be cut and they agreed and they broadcast it on their television. they had sent reporters over here. throughout the interview i refused to go into the business about of them making our diplomats into hostages. i just kept repeating that i wanted to stick to the current topic of today. they printed the interview in

basically, you have this rift between two old guys, france, the supreme leader, friends, ayatollah khamenei, and the other ayatollah who is a powerful iranian power broker who happens to chair the committee that oversees the supreme leader. you have both these guys who have different visions for which would they want the country to go and very different views on foreign policy and domestic affairs. ayatollah khamenei wants to maintain the fiery spirit as at the beginning of the revolution where is rafmanjani to reconcile with the west and wants a more gentle, social atmosphere, more in tune with the modern times. so, in each of these guys has their supporters and their camps. each has -- they're both clerics. they have both their clerical and that they're in college. host: the story on the web we took out says that ahmadinejad answers obama's criticism with his own. what is the back and forth all about and what might be like in coming weeks? guest: i am not sure. to a large extent it depends on how far the obama administration will go to satisfy domestic critics on its handling of the iran

ayatollah khamenei on some points. but there have been influential religious leaders such as one under house arrest for several years who has also openly supported the protests and has objected to the way the elections have been done. host: the next question comes from atlanta on our republican line. caller: good morning, ladies. to start off i would like to let you know that i'm a kosher christian. my question is -- i'm hoping that these protesters are actually individuals who understand that ahmadinejad is twisting what the koran actually stands for. i do not believe that the koran once the death of israel, the other side of abraham's child. i'm from atlanta, in a microcosm of the world. many people here -- we go to a market and seek people from all around the world and get along quite perfectly choosing our produce. what i am hoping and praying is that these protesters are standing up, not embarrassing themselves by bloomberg jewish people for everything which is seems some in america -- but not blaming jewish peopl

. -- against ayatollah khamenei. >> thank you for that question. voices within the clerical hierarchy, both inside and outside iran, and i specifically up that i had al- sistani will step in -- that ayatollah al-sistani will step in at some point -- it is a moment where i anticipate more and more prominent members of the traditional clergy, who, by the way, from the very beginning, were outside of the system, or not just on mr. ayatollah khamenei, but the fact of what he created in 199 goes against the ten ents and principles of shiite islam. the clerics believe it is not the responsibility of the clergy to govern. they have been saying that from day one. and some of them in fact after saying such things have been put under house arrest. we have the case of an ayatollah who was tortured in prison. i have accept an open letter and doing everything to appeal to the international committee to look into his case. this is a regime that doesn't even pity a member of their own, let alone anyone else. this has become a define moment for clerics both in the

mahmoud ahmadinejad the, the ayatollah khamenei, the leaders of hezbollah, hamas, you know when talking about .. they want to kill every, every christian, every can do, every atheists, every agnostic and every apostate muslim, that is every muslim that does not agreed to be as radical as they are, they have to kill all of them or convert them to islam. and they are not willing to settle for anything less. this is what makes them so dangerous. how do you you negotiate with, how do you successfully deter a bridge game or a movement that believes they have been chosen by god to bring about the end of the world? how do you do that? it is not as though the iranian leadership and others aren't willing to sit down and chat. because this buys them time to acquire or build the weapons they need to bring about the end of the world. view left understand and i go through this in the book but to give you a whiff, mahmoud ahmadinejad was born into a poor but devoutly religious shia muslim family in central iran. now, he was not particularly distinguished toward dynamic person throughout the islamic r

we forget that ayatollah khamenei dismissed an elected president. he was dismissed and ousted in 1980. in 1986 we had the famous a fair which involved the u.s. overture to iran in the context of the u.s./iran contra affair. we had the removal of one ayatollah as the designated successor of khamenei in 1989. but seriously shook the regime. we have a serious rift over whether to end the iran/iraq war in 1987 and 1988. there are many senior figures who said no, iran should continue in 1999 we had major student riots, several killed. just in 2004 we had that the guardians -- basically disqualified all the major reformists candidates to the parliament. there were sit-ins, various protests right from within the regime. rifts are not new. rafsanjani was a key figure in many of these and he is a traditional, back-room operator. he tends to lose elections. he didn't win in 1989 and in 1993 but that was after khomeni died. people were just looking for continuity. after he left office in 1997 he has consistently lost. he lost to ahmadinejad in 1995. he is not

the machinations and collaboration of the clerics, especially one who was the mentor to the ayatollah khamenei with u.s. forces who took the side of the u.s.-led coup against mous-- so the u.s. does not need to apologize concerning this, but maybe rather to the iranian people. the u. s up till now has done nothing but express concern for the safety of the iranian people and has said the change should come from within. so, i think you should give iranian people some credit. after role, america as a country that has been constantly criticizing itself from within and changing from the war of independence to the civil war to the civil rights movement just 40 years ago. the same desires and aspirations go on in this country. some have been saying it is not in the u.s. tradition to have women have the right to vote to or have the african-americans become a cohesive part of the society. it goes on with the iranian people who are just asking for the rights to lead a good, normal life. host: tennessee on our republican line. caller: good morning, you say that america should tell iranians what the situa

combustible mixture of protesters and political opportunists against by a toilet khamenei -- ayatollah khameneicaller: we have known in america for a long time that the people of iran are not represented by their government or the ayatollah. all of this calling it the access of the evil when we knew that we were oppressed -- i am praying for their safety. i know that it will be hard and i think we should stay out of it. host: "the islamic resolution has used its oil wealth, exporting 2.1 million barrels per day to buy off huge swaths of the population with cheap housing, government jobs, and subsidized housing. the vast revolutionary guard has kept itself in power. can the green revolution, led by mir hossein mousavi and backed by street protesters, due to the islamic regime what the ayatollah in the iranian people did to the shah's regime? next caller, good morning. caller: after listening to the ayatollah and the speech about being pious, mentioning that his man won by 11 million votes, we need to explain if it was ballot stuffing, or work the large number of people supporting the status quo?

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in a direct rebuke to ayatollah khamenei, he gave this very interesting sermon about how could you talk about the rule of law when the institution that devised the law judges the law and is the same institution? the mistrust that law. it is for the first time that these very nonpolitical, very hesitant clerics are making their points. this is not going to continue. this is not working out. i assume that ayatollah sistani has always tried to stay away from iranian politics but also falls into that category five people that are not happy with what is going on. >> just two quick questions. first of all, if by pressure he agrees to think they vehemently support this, what will be the position in the key issue -- what will be the key issue? and there is leniency -- what happens to the democracy and the democratic forces? if the group people up from iraq, do you think it has any implications on the middle east or iran? thank do. -- thank you. >> i do not think it has any implications on what the u.s. decides to do. i do not think the u.s. has appetite for additional military intervention in t

. >> now, courtesy of iran's state-run press tv, ayatollah khamenei on results of last friday's election in iran. these are his first public remarks since the election delivered during friday prayers. this is about an hour 15 minutes. >> i recommend the respective brothers and sisters who have attended the prayers here. i recommend them all to refrain from evil. what i am going to raise in this sermon is the issue of the election. which is the topic of the day in our country for the time being. there are three issues i want to address, three different groups. the first one is, i address the general public wherever they are in the country. i would like to mention some points here at this point to you, respected people. there is one thing i want to address, the political candidates of the presidential election activists, and those who have been active in the process of the election as well. and also, i have something to tell the leaders of the world and in the western countries. some of the western countries, of course. and those leaders of some of the media that they are running. the firs

the ayatollah khamenei led a revolution that overthrew the government. that is when hostages were taken in the u.s. embassy. it began 30 years of very antagonistic relations between the u.s. and iran. part of what the caller is frustrated with -- use the word hypocrisy, which i think it's an interesting term, one that i think the obama administration is aware of. if you look at cuba, for example, it is something that is a hypocritical u.s. policy in a part of the world that drives a lot of countries down their crazy. his talk about the embargo in cuba and its limits. he talked in cairo about the 1953 coup. other that will clear the air and allow people to start over -- maybe not because there's a lo of history. he mentioned gaza. i was a correspondent there. these are stories that emerge and then slip back out of sight quite a bit. i think he expresses a lot of frustration. much frustration that is felt in the arab world about u.s. policy. host: in addition to being a juror salaam your chief, and has also served in latin america and elsewhere joins us. o

. >> now, the ayatollah khamenei on the election. this is about one hour 15 minutes. >> [speaking foreign language] in this, i recommended all, the brothers and sisters attended, i recommend them all to piety and to refrain from evil. what i am going to raise in this sermon is the issue of the election. this is the topic of the day. i want to address three separate groups. the first is, i want to address the general public, where they are in the country. i want to mention some points -- wherever they are in the country. there is one thing i want to address. the candidates, activists, and those who have been active in the process of election, as well, and also, i have something to tell the leaders of world arrogance in the western countries, some of the western countries, of course. and those leaders of some of the media that they are running. the first point, which i am addressing to you, the respected people, i want to express my appreciation and thanks to you people. i do not want to exaggerate. regarding the recent election, i sho

. >> ayatollah khamenei is the ruthless dictator of iran. ahmadenijad this is puppet. the others who aspire to the presidency are upset. the iranian people are utilizing this moment in the division of the dictatorship to heroically expressed their opposition to the dictatorship. the issue is not one of who is entitled to be puppet president, the issue is that the iranian people are entitled to an end to the dictatorship, and to lend -- and the president of the united states has been silent and confused. the congress of the united states clearly stands with the iranian people, and they will prevail. dodge the gentleman yields back. -- >> the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from florida that is recognized for two minutes. >> i like to thank my chairman for bringing this bipartisan statement forward which supports our american view of the events in iran. the iranian people deserve a democracy that counts every vote and treats its citizens with the utmost dignity. they deserve to trust their own government. these are not free and fair elections by piece -- by any stre

. -- against ayatollah khamenei. >> thank you for that question. the voices within the clerical hierarchy, both inside anb >> who by the way from the very beginning were outside of the system, the traditional clergy, will perhaps also be more encouraged to make clearer statements. not just on mr. khomeini, mind you. but from the very fact of what he created back in 1979 goes against the very tenet of the principles of shiite islam where the clerics believe that it is not the responsibility of the clergy to govern. they've been saying that from day one. and some of them in fact, after saying such things, have been put under house arrest. we have the case of ayatollah montezeli and ayatollah bojezi who was in prison tortured and i've sent letters to the international committee to have them look into this case. this is a regime that doesn't even pity a member of their own, let alone anyone else. so this has become also a defining moment for clerics both in the interests -- interests of the nation but also in the interests of the faith and the clerical

this seems to be an alliance between a two to possibly unseat the ayatollah khamenei. host: thanks for your perspective. supporters of the defeated presidential candidate set fires in the streets of tehran. we read that iranian state television is putting out stories that shows these same fires and refers to these folks as insiders. here is another headline -- you can see more fires here. the front-page story from "the new york times" has another photo of protesters. this is the headline there. it talks about the crackdown on the media over there. obama notes concerns and is doubling as the wrong course. that is the topic here, the president's approach to iran. is it correct? caller: thank you for c-span. i think president obama is doing exactly what he should do. we need to stay out of that right now and the ayatollah over there i think it is beginning to understand that this twitter thing -- he cannot stop the people from communicating with the outside of. if they could have done that, then i think this would have all gone away. -- he cannot stop them from communicat

. >> when ayatollah khamenei was the dictator in iran, he overstepped. this was a force a collection, and posing, once again -- the others who aspire to the presidency have said some division occurred in the dictatorship. the iranian people are utilizing this moment of division. they demonstrate for freedom against the dictatorship. but rather, the iranian people deserve to be free. the president of the united states has been silent and confused. the congress of the united states, consistent with the traditions and values of the american people has been clear. today, it has spoken. we stand with the heroic people of iran. we stand against the dictatorship and the people will prevail. >> the initial resolution that you had written was toned down quite a bit on the house floor. is that a matter of compromise? [inaudible] >> i approached chairman berman on the floor the day that i filed my version of the resolution and asked him to take a look at it. the centerpiece for me was, it was important for the people of the united states of america to have the oppo

. >> the ayatollah khamenei is the dictator in iran. he overstepped in this farcical election, imposing once again, is a puppet president, ahmadinejad. the other who -- the others who aspired to the puppet presidency are upset. the iranian people heroically are utilizing this moment of division in the dictatorship to demonstrate for freedom. the issue is not who deserves to be the puppet presidents, but rather that the iranian people deserve to be free. the president of the united states has been silent and confused. the congress of the united states, consistent with the traditions and values of the american people, has been clear, and today it has spoken. we stand with the heroic people of iran, against the dictatorship of the people -- the people will prevail. >> the initial resolution you had written was toned down what bit in the resolution on the floor. [unintelligible] >> let me say, when i approach this a couple of nights ago, that all my version of the resolution -- i asked him to take a look at it. the centerpiece for me, and n

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. >> the ayatollah khamenei, the so-called supreme leader, is the ruthless dictator of iran. ahmadinejad is his puppets. in this farcical election, he overstepped. the others in the dictatorship who aspired to the puppet presidency are upset. the iranian people are utilizing this moment of division in the dictatorship to heroically expressed their opposition to the dictatorship. the issue is not one of who is entitled to be the puppet president in the iranian dictatorship. the issue is that the iranian people are entitled to an end to the dictatorship and to live and self-determination and freedom in democracy. the president of the united states has been silent and confused. the congress of the nine states clearly stands with the iranian people and they will prevail. >> the gentleman from california. >> i am pleased to yield two minutes to my friend from florida. >> i rise to support the resolution and i would like to thank our chairman and my colleague mr. pence for bringing this bipartisan statement for that supports our american view of the events in iran. iranian people d

supreme leader have promise people that it is going to be -- host:, the supreme leader, the ayatollah khamenei, is he endorsing anyone?

. -- against ayatollah khamenei. >> thank you for that question. the voices within the clerical hierarchy, both inside and outside iran, and i specifically up that i had al- sistani will step in -- that ayatollah al-sistani will step in at some point -- it is a moment where i anticipate more and more prominent members of the traditional clergy, who, by the way, from the very beginning, were outside of the system, or perhaps also be more encouraged to make clearer statements, not just on khamanei, but the very fact that would khomeini created in 1979 goes against the very tenets of islam, with the clerics believe is not the responsibility for them to govern. we have the case of monterrey, and another who was tortured in prison pumps -- montazeri, and another who was tortured in prison. this is a regime that does not even pity a member of their own, let alone anyone else. this has become a defining moment for clerics both in the interest of the nation, but also in the interest of the faith and the clerical establishment, to show a complete demarcation

. >> during friday praise today at tehran university, iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei gave a speech about the elections that set off several days of protests. this portion lasts about an hour, courtesy of iran's state-run tv. >> translator: in this sermon, too, i recommend all the respected brothers and sisters who have attended here, i recommend them all to piety and to refraining from evil. what i'm going to raise in this sermon is the issue of the election which is the topic of the day in our country. for the time being. there are three issues i want to address, three different groups. the first one is i address the general public wherever they are in the country. i would like to mention some points here at this point to you respected people. there is one thing i want to address the political candidates of the presidential election, activists, and those who have been active in the process of election as well. and also i have something to tell the leaders of world arrogance in the western countries. some of the western countries, of course. and those leaders of some of the

iranian supreme leader ayatollah khamenei said it is the mission of the islamic republic of iran to erase israel from the map of the region. iran and president rossin in december 20, 1 said one bomb is enough to destroy israel. in due time the islamic world will have a military nuclear device. had live from the iran press service, december 14th, 2001 he says muslims should use nuclear weapons against israel. iranian president ahmadinejad 2005, israel, he said, must be wiped off the map. mahmoud ahmadinejad april 14, 2006, quote, like it or not, the zionist regime is headed toward annihilation. the zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm. mahmoud ahmadinejad, june 2nd, 2008. not only speaking about the annihilation of israel, now he became bold and talking about the united states. this is just last year, june 2nd, 2008, mahmoud ahmadinejad said, quote, today the time for the fall of the satanic power of the united states has come. and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started. and of quote. two days later, june 4, 2

when the ayatollah khamenei can back in 1979 he was using cassette tapes, symbol audio cassettes were an instrument of the revolution. the world moves. 30 years later, we have the internet, salles phones, satellite dishes, all of this. tyrannies have always depended in the modern age on establishing intellectual, sealing the population from outside influences. socializing, nationalizing if you will consciousness of the people. it is impossible these days, simply impossible. furthermore, the median age in iran is 25. half the country is under 25-years-old they are not going to be governed indefinitely by medieval clerics. just not going to happen so what we are seeing is something akin to what happened in the philippines when marcos called an election under intense pressure from ronald reagan and his on foley from nevada. they had the election it was obviously fraudulent. people went in the streets and four days later he was gone. this will take longer than that. but the fact regime change is coming to iran is it seems to me obvious. >> host: we had an interesting hour this morning wit

and then the party favor was a book on marriage written by the ayatollah khamenei who is the country'sreme leader. only 300 people attended the government's moderation party. and so i mention this anecdote and i write about it as a way of illustrating how the government is slowly -- is recognizing the social crises that are on its hands and what young people are struggling with but it's very often unable to address these problems because the tools that are at its disposable very often, religion and ideological tools like that, don't resonate with young people. most iranian young people although they may have faith certainly, they may pray during -- they may pray, they may fast during ramadan but are very alienated of the official youth of religious ideology and so in many ways this makes the government ill-equipped to deal with this young generation and its changing needs. now i'm going to read to you from a little passage that suggests otherwise, another little experience that led me tongue that the government wasn't so inept after all when it came to dealing with what is young people

not for americans but that's the language for anybody that comes to the country and it's the ayatollah khamenei dollar years. what are the values? they are what we would call family values. that is what it is. and i think it's an interesting irony the americans, you know, the political sort of typical americans would be most angry and want to be hard ball with iran are the ones most in favor of, quote, family values. and then you go to iran and the people that are most threatened by what do you call it the great statement of america or the iranians that are the most passionate about, quote, family values. they are frightened, less educated, conservative, often fundamentalists, often small town people that have never been over there or are over there. you see but i mean? and it is a very interesting and complex in challenge. and was very clear to me they were motivated by the same things the good people here that care about family values are motivated by fear and love and my experience the flip side of fear is understanding and the more you travel the more you understand and the less you are afr

ayatollah ali khamenei, but on the fact that what he created back in 1979 goes against the principles of shiite islam. the clerics believe it is not the responsibility of the clerblingy to govern. they have been saying that from day one. some of them after saying such things put under house arrest. one was tortured in prison as i am standing here speaking to you. i have sent an open letter and appealed to the international committee to have a look into his case. this is a regime that doesn't pity a member of their own, let alone anyone else. this has become a define moment for clerics, not just in the interests of the nation, but in the interests of the faith to show its complete demarkation from the system. i think we can anticipation that too. >> my understanding is that there are a fair amount of differences between iranians and the -- iranians in the countryside and those in cities. what proportion of the population live in cities and what do they represent the population of iran? >> i am sorry? >> to what extent do the protestors represent the total people of iran? >> you have pe

and khamenei, ayatollah khomeni who founded the revolution, he had unparalleled authority and great charisma. and the current supreme leader has never had his religious credentials and never had his charisma. he was shrewd about maneuvering. he managed to project a strong image. over the weekend, he came in and said it is a defiant results and congratulated the winners. he jumped the gun. you're supposed to wait three days before the results are certified. people said, wait a minute, we do not believe the results. mir hossein mousavi sort of said and wrote a letter that, do you believe in these results? it was a subtle way of saying we do not think the supreme leader's authority is the final word. it kind of put a crack in the system. host: our guest is with us until 10:00 if you want to ask kim questions. 202 737-0002 for republicans. 202 737-0001 for democrats. 202 628-0205 for independence. tell us how you got the title of the book. what you want people who read the book to learn about the middle leasebacks guest: on the title, i was trying to project the idea that is not a policy tome. i