and while there's no proof that republican senators are secretly asking ayatollah khomeini to violate the terms of this weekend's nuclear deal their obsession with slamming iran with more saying this is just as dangerous we know what happened the last of a deal with iran fell through because a republican sabotage who knows what could happen this time. a long term iranian nuclear deal would be a once in a generation chance for the united states to rethink its foreign policy president obama should go forward but he should watch his back because if history tells us anything it's that republicans are more than willing to betray their country for a little short term political gain. and that's the way it is now it's tuesday december third twenty third t. and oprah did tom's new book the crash of twenty sixteen the plot to destroy america and what we can do is stop it is now available for purchase at all on line retailers and at your local bookstore go to your local bookstore to get it and you can read it for free at your local library. and you should really read this book and if you haven't

so if robert de niro wants to play the ayatollah khomeini in a movie, who does he go to get permission all muslims in the whole world? >> the iranian parliament, i think. they got to pass, you know. >> i don't know. but you got to get permission if you're going to appropriate somebody else's culture. you can't do it without permission. >> i've never heard of this. i never. this is the first time i've ever heard of this. but perry, katy perry, i mean, the song was in context. nice costumes. it's almost like a homage. it makes you want to go to japan. >> exactly. >> spend some money there and learn about the culture, right? >> here is the thing, bill. this is not about katy perry. this is about liberals who on halloween, for instance, decide that kids can't wear cowboy outfits or indian outfits because it's appropriating cowboy culture or indian culture. and with katy perry, she is apparently appropriating japanese culture. but that's not what it's really about at all. she is not playing just any old japanese woman. she is playing a geisha, right? and a geisha is a woman who was subservi

the ultimate decision maker of course the bronze supreme leader ayatollah khomeini eight. in the increase for the key there was a deal signed in geneva. got the better of him well i'm not sure that we know that there was a deal to continue talking and eventually reach a deal. what they wanted to do with the americans wanted to do rather urgently was to stop the nuclear program of iran in its tracks because every day. they were moving closer and closer to a level of enrichment and quantity than its uranium had been given at least theoretically the ability to move from potential nuclear weapons to one or more nuclear devices and the americans and europeans wanted to stop that and that they succeeded in doing it appears. whether that deal will last. whether they can and dial back so that instead of being on the brink few weeks or months away from that nuclear threshold. you can pull around back to the year or two years away from the nuclear threshold. as can be one of the big issues going for supper we just all now in the meantime there's some sanctions relief. for iran and c

i thought as i listened to this that he was perhaps laying the ground for the ayatollah khomeini eventually if he decides iran has not got what he wants to renounce the interim deal and say it was misrepresented to me by the foreign minister. >> brown: president rouhani of course got a lot of-- for taking far more conciliatory views and statements than his predecessor. but the question that you are raising, for policymakers is how strong still is this hard line faction. >> i think there's no way for any of us to know. i asked this hard line person close to the supreme leader, do you think compromise with the west is possible on the nuclear deal. and he answered directly, no, i don't think it is. i think this is a matter of identity. we don't know if the supreme leader himself believes that, clearly rouhani the president doesn't. he authorized these negotiations, he told me back in september when i interviewed him in new york at the u.n. general assembly he thought this interim deal could be done in three months. it was done even more quickly, i thought at the time it couldn't possibly be so

managed to do, in a way, the impossible, linking together in one place margaret thatcher and ayatollah khomeini as characters in a unified counterrevolutionary year of 1979. very provocative piece, but this was a year in which basic belief that backlash or the return of market and religion to global politics in a big way signaled a accountant -- counterrevolution toward the earlier postwar era. how did we come up with that? could it possibly write a book that says margaret thatcher, ayatollah, the communists, the iranian revolutionaries, never mind pope john paul the second and a resurgence of religion as a factor of polish nationalism which is a whole fascinating part of the book. how do you come up with putting these things together? >> it had a lot to do with my reporting in afghanistan after september 11th. you were there, too. we actually -- if memory serves, we actually stayed in the same house for a while. you're with the "washington post" that. i was with this week. at house struck me and had this shag carpet and these tubular light fixtures, a ranch style house. was the kind of houses

ayatollah khomeini, iran's supreme leader, has given president rouhani some flexibility to try to find an agreement. that's unprecedented, and most people think it's for real. we shall see. and they did, in fact, agree to the initial deal, so already one step has been taken with a good result. i don't think it's a coincidence. the immense power of u.s.-led global financial sanctions backed up by our allies has created the opportunity to resolve this issue diplomatical ly with verifiable agreements and skeptical inspect ors rather than with bombs or boots on the ground. i spent much of my tenure on the intelligence committee going back before 9/11 with the director of national intelligence, the c.i.a., the n.s.a., the f.b.i. and the treasury department to build our tools to exploit and to freeze the international web of financial networks that enable terrorists and proliferation programs, particularly iran's nuclear program, their programs up. i have staunchly supported the multilateral regimes that are currently suffocating the iranian economy and that force the current iranian regime

the attack had the support of iran's then-leader, ayatollah khomeini. it was a clear violation of international diplomatic protocol. the iranian president mea several years -- claims that their nuclear program is for peaceful pump, saying iran's only desire is to diversify its energy production capabilities. yet iran has not only refused to reverse course on enriching uranium, they have developed faster.enrich uranium recently freshman members of the foreign affair committees sent a bipartisan letter to president obama telling him to be vigilant in diplomatic actions with iranis. any diplomatic discussions should not only come after iran has stopped enriching uranium, and after its reduces its store. congress and the american people don't trust the iranian regime. the white house needs to sign the latest set of sanctions. these sanctions go further than previous by targeting the prof fearing of black market goods. sanctions target regime member who are guilty of human rights violations. congress is sending the message that not only do we highly discoura

ou can't trust the ayatollah khomeini. you couldn't trust the ayatollah khomeini. you couldn't trust ahmadinejad. just because they have a different president, they still got the different leader. by the way, we didn't used to call the ayatollah khomeini the supreme leader, just like u.s. leaders didn't used to call rer.n fuh if they think the 12th imam is coming and one day rule over the area which israel is, the area in which the united states is, we should not be calling that man supreme leader. same thing as calling him mein feuhrer. so iran said they are not going to comply with what the obama administration says they've greed to do. and yet the obama administration is sending the former clinton north korean policy director, former democrat who was advising president bush in an op-ed to cut a deal with kim jong il that he really wants to make a deal. kind of like korea did, north korea did in 1994. she was wrong in 1994. she was wrong in 2001. she's wrong now about iran. we're told that those who refuse to learn from history are destined to repeat it. and when

s is the of inane thinking that would have an american president in 1970's proclaiming the ayatollah khomeini as a man of ace, when he was a terrorist and took over a nation and its litary for the first time in terrorist, that a islamic leader had been the leader of a country. with a powerful military. another article from ownhall.com, december 5, 2013, violence against christians is rising across the middle east. endoors -- open doors u.s.a. investigates for "town hall" magazine. christians in the middle east and around the world are being persecuted, imprisoned and martyred for their faith. there's widespread systemic violence and no one in the mainstream media and government seems to have noticed. we may see the elimination and extinction of christianity in its very birth place. without a whimper of protest from the west. i got to say, if the god who protected israel in its inception, through many generations, until they stopped honoring the god of abraham, isaac and jacob, which by the way, no country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of abraham, isaac and jacob , so if

it is well accepted, however, that the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini does actually control everything in iran, including its nuclear policy, meaning that mr. rouhani's election equates little change for iran with regards to the public face. it seems to me this is why we cannot back off now. many of my colleagues, senator kirk, senator graham, senator menendez, just to name a few, are working on a new phase of sanctions. they are tough sanctions, and i am right there with them. i just don't have any faith with regards to what the iranians are stating as to where they will be . israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has called this a dangerous blunder. he has warned israel has the right and the obligation to defend itself by itself against any threat. it concerns me that the administration has no phase two plan in place for the end of this six-month period, and if, in fact, we ease the sanctions, which we are doing, and people take advantage of easing those sanctions and are doing business with iran, to put those same sanctions back in place or tougher sanctions back in place is g