the islamic republic was feeling the pressure was. but the supreme leader refused to give in to the demonstrators held up medina jansa point went and put down the protests with extraordinary brutality. i think i'm on a probably saying to the regime that here but what price he knew he would need to give some leeway if his hold on power were to be preserved. i think this sort of awareness that iran had been through its own brush with potential regime instability in two thousand and nine with the most serious protests that had taken place since the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution cast a very long shadow and it was clear that. there was a consensus decision to move away from the kind of provocations that characterize the period and move toward a new rapprochement at least with the broader international community community if not with the united states specifically. in shows long the main leader of the shias that bush is the first i only have to science has a same. chose the path of peace and negotiations and hussein shows the pat

the last reminder of the heroic time surrounding the foundation of the islamic republic. american islam did not prevent iran from being pragmatic and negotiating a resolution to the nuclear crisis with the united states on january the sixteenth two thousand and sixteen at the headquarters of the international atomic energy agency in vienna dignitaries signed a joint comprehensive plan of action. right now your work really begins yes yes. the economic sanctions on iran were officially lifted for the first time since the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution washington and tehran had managed to resolve an international crisis through diplomacy and dialogue the historic antagonism between the two countries might soon become a thing of the past. i think president obama and secretary kerry held out hope that in the long term very long term starting a diplomatic. process with iran making it ok for americans to speak with iran showing that we could do deals with iran could help over time change iran's foreign policy as opposed to always just containing iran and being against i

instead of being regarded as a pariah state the islamic republic now hope. to be acknowledged as a full member of the international community. this day marks a triumph for mohammad zarif iran's minister of foreign affairs. and for husain rouhani the president of the republic. thirty seven years after the revolution it is an unprecedented strategic shift by releasing a run from isolation president rouhani hopes to renew his country's relations with the rest of the world. president rouhani their very good job in negotiating the deal but the idea certainly did not came from him came from the supreme leader he was the one who had come to the conclusion that this issue had to be resolved at that time. the. since the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution and the advent of the islamic republic it is the supremely appointed for life who has been master of the system and the real head of state. as a share theocracy the supreme leader's power is superior to that of the president of the republic who was elected by the people since the death of ayatollah khomeini in o

by the power base of the islamic republic. recently, we have the anniversary of the assassinations of the last prime of these errors, kind of renaissance men, beloved, respected. his corpse was found and it created all kinds of very cathartic remembrances of the past. a yearning for the past. we had messages by a lot of musicians on the outside, whose music is listened to on a regular basis inside the country, but very much centered, while giving video messages of support to people who are protesting inside the country. we have the death of a prominent actor before the revolution who was blacklisted. funeral, there was this mass of catharsis for the whole nation, of all that has been lost, all of the opportunity, the national identity. the iran that has been lost. a prominent beloved human rights defender, who has been basically imprisoned for so long, his while he has been in prison, his 30-year-old daughter died of a heart attack. how moneyou about people suffered for every one person who is a political prisoner. , everybody

there is that moment happening in the islamic republic. when you see the different protest, the social classes coming out, we saw the women's movement. february, youin saw the -- rivers in march. all the way through april. the bazaars are the people who bankrolled the revolution. in the half millennial, there's always been a alliance between the clergy and the bazaar. to power, that as when the bazaar father social .tatus weekend or it in the month of june, their chanting the same slogans. they were different than what you and i were chanting. the new begin to realize that this is in trouble. society is gravitationally pulled a way from the regime. what you need to look at 2019, is the security forces. how the regime crumbled. what security forces are defecting? white of aislamic -- deployed law enforcement> what does this tell you about how the islamic republic trust security forces. this up to them to decide. as the economic ties shrink the walls sanctions, of the regime are turning against each other. theory that we rally around the san

i want him to sanction the islamic republic main propaganda tool.uard because people are suffering. they are chanting against the whole regime and now this faction is hurting people. >> martha: in terms of the money and where ended up going and supporting these different military adventurism in syria. >> that is why the people are in the street. >> martha: is that powerful enough to tip the balance? are we at a tipping point? >> i strongly believe that. donald trump comes and threatens iran with military action, i want to say that if you are going to sit down with the iranian government and they accept and come out with the deal, they're going to forget about human rights? this is what the european union did. they said that we want to meet the human rights activist but after the deal, they ignored human rights. this is what has been missing and donald trump missed a great opportunity. right now, he could bam the islamic officials, he could censure the revolutionary guard and that is the way you care about human rights. >> martha: very good to meet y

of britain, i don't wa nt to islamic republic of britain, i don't want to be part of it.e. there are groups around europe to talk about muslims being potentialfifth columnists, they tend to be from the far right from parties in eastern europe, germany, france, who will identify as being against the muslim religion. for example, the afp seniorfigure alexander religion. for example, the afp senior figure alexander garland, he said the muslim religion" does not belong in germany, its political doctrine is not compatible with that ofa doctrine is not compatible with that of a free country". your language sounds like his. if you listen from the beginning, i'm talking about islam based on the koran. he and the far right will have no issues with that. we're talking about a manifestation of islam based on culture, secondary sources that are perverted and deformed. for example, what are the salad is islam, is that an authentic version of the koran? it is dangerous anywhere, notjust in the middle east as well as here. i don't care what's happening in the united kingdom, which is my

but this is an islamic republic.is a risky business, both for men and women. (erdbrink and sommayehng spea (erdbrink imitating fanfare) >> erdbrink: wow. ♪ >> erdbrink: after 17 years of living in iran, i still ruggle with how the stat interferes in your private life. when i said that to a mullah once, he said, "don't think that climbing a mountain brings you closer to god. god will come to you if he deems it necessary." maybe at's the problem. because god can't be everywhere at the same time. for everyday matters, we must rely on his spokespersons on earth. in this case, that's supreme leader khanei.un anr him is an army of officials. so if i want to know if i can film sooni without getting her into trouble, i should pay a visit to this man. he is the censor. (erdbrink and man speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (dance music playing) >> erdbrink: finally, some clarity. this rule i undetand. western viewers can see this, but it will never be shown i iran. (dance music continues) ♪ the different expla

there's that moment happening in the islamic republic to be aware of. the way you see it in the social classes coming out after january february use of the women's movement and then escalating in february taking off the he for jobs, the drying up the rivers, all the way through april and may, these are the people who bankrolled the revolution. there's always been an alliance between the clergy and the bazaar, when you have bazaar is watching on the parliament, chanting the same slogans that what you and i were chanting in 2009 then you realize it's in trouble. the place to keep your eye on is not society. society is gravitationally pulled away from the regime in a way it will not be reparable. what you need to look at in 2019 with the sanctions as security forces. and how the regime crumbled and apply the framework here. so, what security forces are defecting. why are they deploying here, why they deploying law-enforcement hearing vigilantes here? what is it tell you about the trust and security forces? please will be on the front line. it's up to them

i've mentioned the fact that if, for some weird reason, god forbid, this country becomes an islamic republicot want to live... you know who else uses the phrase... ..i do not want to live under any type of sharia law, here, there or anywhere. there are groups around europe who talk about muslims being potential fifth columnists. they tend to be from the far—right, from parties in eastern europe, from germany, france, who will identify as being against the muslim religion. for example, the afp senior figure alexander gauland, he said the muslim religion "does not belong in germany, its political doctrine is not compatible with that of a free country." your language sounds like his. no. if you'd listened to me right at the beginning, i'm talking about an islam based on the koran. then he and all other far right will have no issues. we're talking about a manifestation of islam based on culture, based on secondary sources that have perverted and deformed it. for example, wahhabi salafi islam, would you say that that's an authentic version of what the koran preaches? no! it is that version of isl

an speaks, group repeats): (mirza and group speaking): (samin speaking): >> erdbrink: in the islamic republicork, of course. e real solution came fro overseas-- an american concept dating bk to 1935. (erdbrink speaking): (man speaking): (erdbrink and man speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (man speaking): (erdbrink and man speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (mirza and man speaking): (erdbrink speaking): in (erdand man 2 speaking): (man 3 speaking): (erdbrink speaking): in (lau (erdbrink speaking): (group members laughing) (erdbrink speaking): ♪ if you want to live here in the islamic republic, you have to stick to the rules. but those rules are never completely clear. so it's often a matter of interpretation by the law enforcement officers on duty. sommayeh had bad luck this morning. m she sea message that she was stopped by the morality police. (sommayeh speaking): ♪ >> erdbrink: it's a dilemma facing women in iran. it's okay to be beautiful, but you're not supposed to show off your beauty in public. all you're allowed to show is your face. maybe that's the reason why elnaz golrokh is so famous in

eut i want to say the islamic republic of iran didn't want only to break me.ed to break the iranian women who joined my campaign. >> ninan: what gives you the most hope in this situation and what gives you the most concern? >> one woman took off her head scarf and said, "you arrested me because i joined the campaign. i took off my hijab because by threatening me, by putting me in prison, you cannot keep me silent." just today, i received a video from a woman challenging one of the oppressors saying, "you are not allowed to tell me what to wear." that video got more than five million views. the supreme leader of iran doesn't get that much views. >> ninan: and you can see the full interview with her on monday at 5:00 p.m. eastern on cbsn. f women from 19 countries made history in the skies over the ukraine. they're a part of the "women in wings" project. during their 90-second freefall, the skydivers changed formation three different times setting eye new world record. it's actually the highest number of people ever to do that. the previous world record was 56.

women entrepreneurs are still a rarity in the islamic republic of iran whenever some latif he says up a company four years ago she had a very hard time in iran a woman may only make major business decisions with the approval of a male relative usually her father brother or husband. or son that if he is husband mesti back to all the way. she is the boss but only men do the deliveries that's because women aren't allowed to ride motorbikes in iran. and no a controversial issue even if you deactivate the location function on your phone google still gets station where you want absolute your mobile device access the information and pass it on to google. google is such a great help to google thank affirmations nearby. showing results for find gas stations nearby along your route. google knows where its users are and that lets it offer a personalized information and advertising it can be very useful and this worth a whole lot of money to google many ads require location data to function there's nothing wrong with this but you have to be very upfront with what you do with that data and you hav

the islamic republic of iran is a revolutionary regime or government. stood up through not just an american dominated government but a monarchy of the thousand years. this is their system, warts and all. protests, we are seeing this again, it continues to get stronger. there is a rally that happens inside the country and legally -- regionally. not only do they get stronger but they keep getting stronger throughout the region imposing an even stronger challenge to the united states. >> he referred a couple of times to the sharp depreciation. what illustrates exactly are point. the line here illustrates a sharp depreciation here. it is certainly depreciating a lot. across the bottom, showing that people are buying more and more goals. why wouldn't someone in the obama administration say the sanctions did not work and that we would never have gotten a come to they have bargaining table because of the economic pressure? >> the iranians have been at the burning table with the united states for a long time since almost the beginning of the republic. the reaga

didn't pose the toughest sanctions iran has ever faced a declaration of economic war against the islamic republic. since then iran's economy has plunged into chaos the collapse of the country's currency the reaal has accelerated it has now lost seventy percent of its value against the euro the government has banned many currency transactions since april the falling reale didn't just hurt currency holders food prices have risen by at least forty percent . and last week president trump further stirred the pot with a surprising proposal thank you very much thank you i would certainly meet with a rant if they wanted to move i don't know that they're ready to have a hard time right now. but i ended the iran deal it was a ridiculous deal the response from iran's leaders was tepid but several international media reported that a meeting could happen in new york at the next general assembly of the united nations but for now iran will have to see how it manages to cope with the new american sanctions. for more on this i'm joined now by eric randolph a journalist in teheran eric so as we just heard in that

the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. and that opposition is centered in this room. and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had been in its battle against the soviet union only to say that group to form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. does america dealing with a spider and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding and. it's not just russia being targeted by pune of us measures turkey the e.u. have been slapped with hefty duties with all the money i'm tired of as high as twenty five per cent turkey's feeling the most heat when it comes to steel knife facing a tar of hike fifty percent as you might expect president trumps hardball trade policies are not going down well not least in germany where businesses are already suffering the german economy minister warned that the u.s. may be going too far international relations profes

return to ballistic missile flight testing terrorism which is a method of statecraft for the islamic republic most unfortunately terrorism both on the european continent and in the middle east as well as a return to naval harassment in the persian gulf these are all options but all these options will be responded to and i think tehran understands that and i'm ben taleb the new housing us to put it all into perspective thank you so much. now let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world turkish president richard type and want is to make a two day visit to germany at the end of september he will meet with chancellor angela merkel and germany's president after being received with military honors german turkish relations have reached a new low in recent years over human rights and other issues. i missed the international has called for an investigation into civilian deaths caused by u.s. led forces in the battle for the syrian city of raka last year the coalition has admitted killing seventy eight more civilians than earlier reported amnesty says that is just the tip

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they're selling more than nine hundred thousand dollars worth of ikrima and moisturizer to the islamic republic of iran there's a rise in demand for its products by the younger generation both women and men and not just in tehran but right across the country. the president of the company proudly told me she counts hillary clinton as a fan and she will not bow to the pressure from washington to stop trading with iran we have tried to value this risk. and has more people so we hired two small company to. buy two one a good one loyal customer so we're exiting iran so we go on with small companies like this one won't appear on president trump sanctions radar but they believe the european commission won't be able to defend them they know they're taking a risk. it's a risk the big multinational companies in france denmark take companies such as total and purges citron have too much to lose the same applies right across the european union through a treat from doing business in iran could turn into a rout the ideal here is basically to suffocate the mean economy and to strangle its financial system so

iran be the next country after syria to spiral into war the us has been openly threatening the islamic republic for three years iran's population has been waiting for the nuclear deal it struck with international superpowers to start paying off but so far the european investments are nowhere in sight three years ago we met oil worker in milan and his wife neda back then many in iran were hoping for a better life. style that's up by the day it comes down at the present because the value of iranian money. comes down against the dollars american dollars it's difficult for us then to get a snapshot and making ends meet has really tough. question even though my husband has such a hard job and we both money that we can't get by. with our expenses are just too high places and there is a lot of stuff that. i do think if we get better though. i hope. we hope we hope to. be helped to. get. a result after. that. negotiation less negotiation. event to be better if i want to be happy in the box. in my cut. by i. think i. but things are different than expected instead the u.s. is threatening to impose more s

war nor will we negotiate with the us it is impossible even if someday the government of the islamic republic of iran were to negotiate with the us regime it would never negotiate with the current government of the us. and then there is turkey and its detention of pastor and brunson turkish authorities say was tied to the twenty sixteen who attempt now trump says he wants him released. the united states will impose large sanctions on turkey for the long time detainment of pastor andrew brunson this innocent man of faith should be released immediately i have just authorized a doubling of terrorists and still and with respect to turkey as the currency the turkish lira slides rapidly downward against a very strong dollar our relations with turkey are not good at this time. but turkey is going at a budge and just like trump era one knows how to talk tough not talk about we are partners in nato and then you step your strategic partner in the battle we will do as the law dictates you cannot simply make sure you can bow down or by bus on us around meanwhile russia is not exactly caving in the face o

it's our way or the highway we are asking every nation every nation who is sick and tired of islamic republics destructive behavior to join our pressure campaign this is especially those who are allies in the middle east and europe easy for him to say especially when many are saying the e.u. will bear the economic brunt of cutting off ties with iran but for now it remains to be seen whether impossible is truly nothing for the block. here with r t international the latest kaiser report starts in seconds. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. this is harlan kentucky. over all of this move the boys to the border industry. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the pay rises to. live to see these people as survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever ha

the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. position is centered in this room. and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had been in its battle against the soviet union only to see that group later form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. does america dealing with these five and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our own standing. senators in the united states have accused the government of contributing to another deadly saudi led coalition strike a school bus in yemen on thursday the red cross says twenty nine children were killed thirty others injured all under the age of fifteen the u.s. state department called on the coalition to investigate but to that saudi arabia is a key regional partner. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident you also supply the tremendous amount of weaponr

"death to the islamic republic, and "shame on the mullahs." are the things many iranians are saying on the streets right now. well, stephen, you have to keep in mind that in iran we have very regular elections and elections in iran have very high turnouts. in fact, president rouhani was elected with a turnout of something like 73% or 74%. so the legitimacy of the political institutions in the eyes of the people is very high in the country. the fact protests happen in iran is not extraordinary, but i would like you to keep this in mind, that unlike in western countries, where, for example, in the riots in london in 2011, where social media was being used by the rioters, or the protesters, or whatever you'd like to call them, the british government had the cooperation of blackberry, of facebook, of twitter, the people who instigated the riots, two young men, they were sentenced each to four years in prison in the uk, and five or six people were killed, over 3,000 to 4,000 people were arrested, and they were universally condemned. in the case of

it's our way or the highway we are asking every nation every nation who is sick and tired of islamic republics destructive behavior to join our pressure campaign this is especially those who are allies in the middle east and europe easy for him to say especially when many are saying the e.u. will bear the economic brunt of cutting off ties with iran but for now it remains to be seen whether impossible is truly nothing for the block. russia's defense ministry is calling on the u.s. to allow humanitarian access to a refugee camp in southern syria it also wants the u.s. to shut down a military base which is close to the camp russia says eisel fighters are regrouping in the region we spoke to russia's envoy to syria about the security situation. but the study also took us there only two areas where i saw militants are still quite active although there are not many of them first of all in a fifty five kilometer long area that's controlled by the us. is located there around sixty thousand people live there now there are many i saw militants who were there under the guise of refugees my personal opin

it's our way or the highway we are asking every nation every nation who is sick and tired of islamic republics destructive behavior to join our pressure campaign this is especially those who are allies in the middle east and europe easy for him to say especially when many are saying the e.u. will bear the economic brunt of cutting off ties with iran but for now it remains to be seen whether impossible is truly nothing for the block. yellow book from the foundation for peace and future research told us it's the u.s. that's pressing european companies to stop dealing with iran. you see the united states is now bullying european companies and governments sending their message is putting pressure on them to start any kind of cooperation with iran that's a very nasty thing to do because it is suffocating eighty five million people and their lives after having done this since seventy nine at some point it should be and i must say it's really it's it's narrowminded and it's very sad to see that there are a number of countries will not have any kind of since or what they do politically in the belief t

it's our way or the highway we are asking every nation every nation who is sick and tired of islamic republics destructive behavior to join our pressure campaign this is especially those who are allies in the middle east and europe easy for him to say especially when many are saying the e.u. will bear the economic brunt of cutting off ties with iran but for now it remains to be seen whether impossible is truly nothing for the block. an estimated thirty five thousand people marched through jerusalem thursday in the city's largest ever and you will pride parade participants chanted slogans carried rainbow colored banners on an event that also took all of political dimension due to the netanyahu government's refusal to extend surrogacy rights to gay men two thousand police officers were there to provide security for those following the truth a lot better route the parade is often the source of tension in the historically conservative city this year it was met with until. protests which worked. well rested well in twenty fifteen it ended in tragedy after an ultra orthodox jewish man stabbed six pe

officials here they are a in extremist group then wish i had been a coke the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. now an opposition is centered in this room . and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had been in its battle against the soviet union only to say that group to form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. america dealing with these five and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our own standing well it's not just russia on the receiving end of washington's economic bush earlier on friday donald trump on the us is doubling tire of sell its nato ally turkey i have just authorized a doubling of tariffs on steel and on the menu with respect to turkey as their currency the turkish lira slides roughly downward against our very strong dollar and the mini move now be twenty percent and still fifty percent our relations with turkey are not good at this time yeah th

bombs the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. and that opposition is centered in this room. and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had been in its battle against the soviet union i don't need to say that group to form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. america dealing with a spot and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding. time now for the third and the last piece in the series of reports on the fate of children obvious long mixtape foreigners from russia but didn't travel to the south of the country to talk to people desperate for news of family members pledge allegiance to the terror group. it's early morning but the office of those human rights group and brosnan is packed with women all desperate to find out any in use about their loved ones many have come here from other regions of russia's north caucasus and almost all cases t