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forces fought a fierce battle against an enemy force that appeared to be speaking farsi and russian. they were much better armed than your average taliban squad. they had body armor, kevlar helmets, used smoke grenades to break contact and so forth. so there is at least three types, and that's just in southern afghanistan. >> sean, thanks very much. we would love to have you back to continue discussing the issue. >>> in my notebook, why the united states needs a district military link with tehran. >> the window is closing to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons but military action to stop tear ran is a perilous undertaking. that assessment from general mike mullen is spot on. he estimates iran will have a bomb within one to the three years but cautions military actions while still an option could prompt attacks on gulf states and de stabilize the reason. it's time for direct links between washington and iran. during the cold war the sovietn union and the united states wanted to destroy one another. that didn't stop them from talking. a failure to communicate is driving tensions

i don't speak farsi. can tell you, we've checked with some of the folks who have been monitoring this throughout the day they're actually chanting there, death to the dictator, death to the dictator. referring to ayatollah. we're going to be all over that as well. the latest piece of video that we're sharing with you there out of iran. >>> meanwhile, this. an alleged $25,000 severance. that's what a man says senator john ensign paid his wife to leave her job. that woman on the right. right there. was also ensign's mistress. what a mess. her job was with ensign's campaign committee. there's more. will this result in an investigation? will this result in his possibly having to step down? that's what many pundits and other insiders are wondering. so are we. some lunch. you hungry? yeah. me too. (door crashes in) (broadview alarm) (gasp and scream) go! go! go! go! go! go! (phone rings) hello? this is mark with broadview security. is everything okay? no. someone just tried to break in. i'm sending help right n

saying the last five years we've put out of the service under this policy 59 arabic speakers and nine farsiguists. i serve on the select committee on intelligence and i'm telling you we cannot afford at all not to have language speakers with the paucity of language speakers we have in the intelligence community. >> congressman hastings, as you know the beltway common wisdom on this is this is an incredibly sensitive issue that a lot of capital needs to be invested in and that president clinton was immeasurably hurt by the way he pursued this issue at the start of his first term. do you think that's true? do you think it's true now this would be incredibly risky for the president to take a leadership role on this? >> i really do not. the majority of americans do not support don't ask don't tell. without question, every poll has shown an uptick in favor of us getting rid of this policy. and the one that is particularly salient is that members of the military are in favor of getting rid of this policy. it is shameful for us to continue with reference to this matter. i keep hearing we'll do it

want to help but american artists, joan baez, even john bon jovi did a version of "lean on me" in farsi. farsi a bit rusty. >> people are saying how much impact inside iran for these types of protests and events take place inside iran. >> iranians aren't internet savvy. they don't have all the television stations, but they monitor the internet. they see these people, word get out. any type of event inspires them. they are watching. that energizes the movement there. >> good to see you this morning. thanks. >> you're welcome. >>> thanks for being with us monday 20th of july, watching most news in the morning, i'm john roberts. >> i'm kiran chetry, the stories breaking down for you in the next 15 minutes. for the first time since he was captured we're seeing dramatic video of a u.s. soldier taken by taliban in afghanistan. the u.s. military are calling the tape propaganda. we're live with that. >>> president obama's approval ratings slipping on key issues including health care. something he has been pushing hard for this month. >> also secretary of state hillary clinton meets with india's

there are blogs in farsi and all languages used in iran. people are quite aware through the blogs and internet what is going on in the rest of the world. you have this situation where you have gericratic religious leadership permits shuns to a safety valve to let people express, express their political interests and actually results in elections of, some individuals who oppose their leadership but at the same time, you have a situation where young people really want to become part of the modern. so, what can the united states do about these vulnerabilitis? in some ways, if push come to shove, it is considered act of war we do have opportunity to put a blockade in iranian oil exports. this would have a severe damage to the iranian economy. it would also be considered an act of war. we also have opportunities in terms of providing embargos on particular technologies. one of those has been quite effective and iran has a lot of natural gas, even second or third largest reserves in the world. they are unable to lick which this gas and in place,

the text of that speech, translated from farsi to english. common knowledge is that is not what he said. what he said was that the zionist regime would fall just like the communist result -- regime. he never said that. another point. when netanyahu was over here and president obama talked-about the sediments, that the settlements had to stop, the land grabs had to stop. borders had to be initiated. i sat back and laughed. when ned tonight you got back, he immediately decided that he would make more settlements. israel continues to slap the american taxpayer and the president in the face. i remember bush's standing in the rose garden with ariel saying the settlement had to stop. the minute sharon got off the plane he said he would make 25 new settlements. guest: i don't think anyone out there thinks that president ahmadinejad is a fan of israel, no matter what he said or did not say. iran's current leadership is no friend of israel at all. the second point is settlement is a huge issue and problem. it is subject to the big major dispute right

we may never know if it bugs president ahmadinejad not to be able to say quarterback in farsi -- i gotwo leaders' bug-swatting techniques. president ahmadinejad opted for the lunge-and-grab method while president obama practiced the wait-and-bounce pe wait-and-technique. mr. president, your trousers zip is undone has gone viral. while preparing for an interview, president ahmadinejad seems to be zipping up. critics aren't zipping their lips. they're making the most of the viral video, putting the missed swat to music -- and putting words in the mouth of the moth -- death to dictator -- a twitter message quotes a shiite e-mom as saying god created bugs to intimidate the arrogant. someone even put ahmadinejad's head on the fly that buzzed obama. when the president talked in his inaugural speech about extending a hand to those who would enclench their fist -- >> that's the most persistent fly i've ever seen.

. >> reporter: the military is pushing into areas where they don't speak american or farsi.s they have to trust local translay or thes, which isn't the same as a u.s. marine. >> they know their mission and their goal, and certain things cannot be close to an interpreter. >> reporter: so, while fellow marines practice their aim outside, the real battle for afghanistan may be won with words. [ speaking foreign language ] if this works, every marine special ops unit will have a fluent fellow marine on their team, something that could become a model for a lot more of the military. wolf? >> good luck with that. thanks very much, chris. >>> let's get to a cnn exclusive right now. as they hunt for the taliban in southern afghanistan, u.s. marines are also searching out and destroying the tools of the trade in the heroin heartland. isaac watson is embedded with u.s. marines. here's his report. >> reporter: we're on a night operation with the u.s. marines in southern afghanistan in helland province, and right now the marines back here are rigging these chemicals with explosives, c-4

how many people do we have that can speak farsi like a native and get inside iran? the door. >> they've been undermined. >> my god, i know so many of those stories. people are saying, "enough! i don't have to do this. enough." we're losing our best people. >> very few people know, how to follow someone to cry row, a top leader of al qaeda and having to call before somebody snats the top leader of al qaeda. >> i'll give you an even scarier example that was cited for me recently. short of shooting the guy in cairo, better would be to capture him and turn him upside down, get his cell phone, get the sim card, get all the contacts he's had in the last six months. wow! that would be a gold mine. i know an example of where that happened, a take-down like that happened and people were so nervous about being accused of doing something wrong in handling or interrogating this guy in the first several hours that they immediately turned him over and this crucial window of opportunity where you get his stuff exploited in a hurry was lost. again, that ought to really annoy people

seems to use about iran, that -- the text of that speech that he gave it has been translated from farsi to english, and so common knowledge is that is not what he said. what he said was at -- that the zionist regime would fall more less like the communist regime, on its own. he never said that. that is something that the zionist media seems to be pushing because it sounds good. another point, when netanyahu was over here and president obama talked to him about the settlements, that the settlements had to stop, the land grabbing had to stop, borders have to be initiated, i sat back and laugh just uncontrollably. israel -- when netanyahu came back, he immediately decided they were going to build more settlements and he made that known, even after sitting there. it has been happening with president after president after president. israel continues to slap the american taxpayer and the president in the face. i remember bush standing in the rose garden with ariel sharon and said the settlements have to stop. sharon was on the tarmac in tel aviv, the minute he came off the plate he said 25 un

reaction has been to your reporting on iran and whether there's any kind of plans to have al-jazeera farsi service? >> atchley, first of all we did report elections in iran as many other for both arabic and english news. >> were you put under the same restrictions? >> eventually come immediately of the elections, finished that same day, our reporters were asked to leave from iran. and of course we continue to report through our deal which has iranians working in iran. unfortunately, i would say the story we still face obstructions in covering the story in iran. as you know, images were especially during the first few days and we were not allowed to film. and that created a problem. and we, like many others on youtube and twitter of covering images and stories. however, we also have excellent network of analyst within iraq from previous groups covering, telling us information that we may not be able to tell you that is regarding the issue of iran. in principle, al-jazeera actually is brainstorming the idea of expansion, in general. i mean, we would like, we have al-jazeera english now but w