ayatollah khamenei did not have anything like that. he had the view that islam was everything and individual rights very often had to be superceded to that. i think in that respect they were very fundamentally different. but there are some striking parallels and one of the interesting parallels is that both of these men were misfits. in some ways they were very unusual in their religious beliefs. john paul ii had an intense mystical relationship to christ and the virgin mary. he was not your ordinary priest. his beliefs went off into some really amazing and unconventional realms. ayatollah khamenei was a practitioner and mystical in his belief things along the lines of what we would call sufi is some in sunni islam. there were many other clerics who regarded him as the protection shin or of some forbid nor suspect ideas. what is very interesting is the way that matches -- mysticism can lead to political activism by showing you the perfectibility of man. there are a whole bunch of different things that are very complex but if you think

ayatollah khamenei was in exile for much of the iranian revolution be communicated through the state-of-the-art telephone switching system that have been installed by the americans for the shah. you could call anyone in iran at a moments notice and it was hugely important for the iranian revolution. with the help of satellites of course which the cost to come down. i think you can see a lot of different levels in which the technology was influencing all of this. pcs were not yet there but i think they are very much a part of this moment. the technological aspect really deserves to be gone into war deeply than i was able to. >> host: tell me if you were to do a follow-up to the book, would you jump right in with 1980 or where's your next moment? decicco 1979 to 1989? is that going to be the next part? >> guest: that's a great question. i think i'm going to go to something totally different. >> host: absolutely. in terms of the response you have gotten so far what have you made up what the critics had to say? >> guest: i'm very happy with it. i feel like a lot of people got the book. when you wri

hardliners within iran who also aren't in favor of the deal but the country's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei has xpress his full support to the negotiators mohammad marandi a professor at the university of tehran thinks the majority of iranians see agree see the agreement as beneficial 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 enriching 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 to 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 taliban reactor that produces medical isotopes for cancer patients so the iranians have already produced enough nuclear fuel through enriching uranium at twenty percent it no longer needs it so halting that is actually an advantage for iran because it does not want excess fuel beca

reagan administration to reach out to have leverage in side the islamic republic after the ayatollah khamenei died. when we look at the president of on this first inaugural address, let me backtrack. recent history is 1,000 years ago but in the united states going back for years it is ancient history but people don't think about moving 1,000 miles away. but to ask iran to stretch out that with george h. w. bush that is much of the same theme we don't need to assume this must go on forever. twice i can think of a time when the republic shot -- shifted positions with what it would take to release the american end hostages the second is what it would take to end the iran-iraq war. if you read what warren christopher edited with different chapters contributed by all different policy makers and so forth forth, they came to a basic conclusion it was persistence of diplomacy that led to the release of the hostages. the late peter bobbins wrote in 1981 that they got it backwards that the key episode that led to the committee changes his mind is saddam hussain invaded iran and had increased exponentia

but ayatollah khamenei said the agreement. >> a good agreement has something in it for both sides, otherwise they wouldn't agree. otherwise it's a capitulation or a stalemate. they are things that iran is happy with. it can read some of the language in the agreement to say there's an implied right of enrichment. secretary of state john kerry is right in saying there's no recognition of that right in this language. it's proof that there was an agreement that may hold because both sides got something they wanted. and can sell. >> are you optimistic that as we move forward it will lead to a permanent solution. >> i am optimistic for the reasons i wrote about, i think a lot of this has to do with domestic politics, and for the first time since president obama was elected, the domestic politics in iran create an opening for an agreement. the sanctions we have imposed have had an impact. the iranian people are saying to their leaders, "we need relief", and we have a president who is pragmatic. he's not soft, president hassan rouhani. he's practices mattic and put it together with president barack

iran supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei warned his country will not back down one aisle and it's trying to maintain some new clean facilities including its head he wanted the accent according to the vine speak in tongues parliament. i mean he has characterized the negotiations as a full scale will take place at the diplomatic front. despite the management and such with mom thinks i continue to express optimism that this plant will make progress three in a hostile consultation on monday morning with the eu also shows the head of the iranian indication in the next in the mood. it's that i can because hello this is the distance is the best suited to the us to continue i was closer to a deal. i do hope that we have the deal at the end of today. the autumn your options. the target date for implementation is genuine twenty s the toll hike piece declaring bearing tend to result being constantly upon sleepy and grant her peace on the issue nation. mission am reporting to us from geneva this trial has said freeing twenty six long serving palestinian prisoners as part of the u s brokered peace de

before the agreement in geneva, the supreme leader, ayatollah khamenei, spoke about jewish , ande as pigs and dogs israel will disappear. and i did not see any protest of any political leader in europe. made very strong -- very strong expression about this on able nazi- -- unaccept style accusations against israel and the jews. i think this is something he should pay attention, and we iraniannian -- intentions. lebanon, in a rack iraq. and of course their nuclear ambitions. know, we have you all of this philosophy, something that brings all of to a very, very bad today, and what we have we can say today really openly we in the beginning caused a , today what wece have with egypt and turkey and saudi arabia. part of this nuclear arms race. consequences -- it is even more serious than movies in hollywood. >> before i turned to the audience for your questions, i want to ask you one last question of my own. a moment ago you think it is important to turn down the -- if i understood you i- in the u.s.-israel negotiations. that made me think of a theme in the israeli press a lot -- >> you c

very close in the long time time believes that agreement remains unlikely that's because ayatollah ali khamenei. hates america is fundamentally time to start doing that tehran wants a nuclear weapons capability comes down to it though so the french a weekly any magazines of the korea international are they going from page one year three semester now it's the new recruits awesome of course from around the world hear the theme is climate change you can see the cover that the tall decaf this post. now that's come in the workplace in italy could see it on is trying in french but also the website said. the whole day eight we live in that weather catastrophes. now it's on getting that while climate change may not explain everything will be school with typing high and in the philippines where he was simply dumb. when the swings and for the global population about this that the good the way these costs has a calming force how fast on how to its tail. now it's looks that bangladeshis climate refugees and not um um optical. two out of namibia which is going through its most now seen the team is on its ba