we had bad general jafari has announced that the sedition has been defeated what does it look like from where you are. well aaron to ron it was pretty quiet overnight and we've seen a pretty heavy police presence and part of you revolutionary guards out on the streets in the center of the city but for the most part it looks calm it does feel like the wind has come out of the sails of the protest movement today was really about the regime seizing back control of the narrative reasserting it sort already and getting these things under control and while we don't want to rule out the possibility that more protests or a smite flare up in the nights to come but now it does look like the other is that managed to get things under control and what effect have a today's pro-government demonstrations that had if any where yes this is part of the regime showing that if it wants to it can bring a huge number of people out into the streets in the these protests were impressive tens of thousands maybe more marching all over the country in different cities we've heard it's not confirmed yet that they'l

we heard general jafari has announced the sedition has been defeated.does it look like from where you are? eric: here in tehran it was pretty quiet overnight, and we have seen a pretty heavy police presence and quite a few revolutionary guards in the streets in the center of the city. but for the most part it looks calm. it does feel like the wind has come out of the sails of the protest movement. today was really about the regime seizing back control of the narrative, reassessing its authority, and getting these things under control. while we do not want to rule out the possibility that more protests or unrest might flare up in the nights to come, but now it does look like authorities have been able to get things under control. phil: what effect have today's pro-government demonstrations had, if any? eric: well, yes, this was part of the regime showing that if it wants to it can bring a huge number of people out onto the streets. these protests were impressive. tens of thousands, maybe more marching all over the country in different cities. we have hea

the head of iran's revolutionary guards, muhammad ali jafari, guards, mohammad ali jafari, declared thisthe way to beirut,which shows how successful iran's involvement in iraq and syria has been. but russia, iran's ally, wants out of the war, and is farfrom happy. mina, what's happening here? that's quite a boast, he was boasting. quite a frustration for ordinary citizens that would never feel safe to go from tehran by car and that journey. all the feel safe to go from tehran by car and thatjourney. all the lives that have been lost but also all of the fears, whether it's kidnapping, intimidation, if anyone else tried to make a similar route. that says something that they control, the iranian revolutionary guard, threw themselves or proxies, the militias they support that they can clear the roads for them. it is very worrying. we talk about the importance of nation and government. if you have a leader of the armed wing in iran saying they can traipse through these arab countries with very little push back it is hugely concerning. this idea of a corridor from iran all the way to the borde

count out the fact that there is a real cohort that fully support the islamic regime and if general jafari is correct and the unrest has been quelled what happens now the things just go back to the way they were. no not a jew i think this will shake up the political scene. in a number of ways but it's hard to see how it's going to play out or president rouhani is going to have to change track showed. about the economic problems the country faces and although these protests may be over the frustration and the anger that drove them initially is certainly not going away any time soon so dressing note is going to be very big in the coming weeks eric randolph into iran thank you . and a sign of thawing tensions north korea has reopened a suspended hot line just south korea north korean leader kim jong un ordered the reconnection of the phone line of the country's border north and south of been making overtures about improving ties since new year's eve and kim jong un said he wanted to see north korean athletes at next month's winter olympics in the south. one of the more contentious issues in c

there has been a report that he's been arrested and of course one of iran's stop generals, general jafarias implicitly accused president -- former president ajad of being involved in the protests. but i don't know if this points at the real involvement into this protest. of course there is skism in the regime. the protests have to do with the upcoming -- with the succession issue for supreme leader and also plays into the ongoing debate here between hard liners and performers and why is that so? because the president released a publicized part of a budget, that gave out very sensitive information that insighted many people that said that religious institutes were getting lots of money from the upcoming government budget. at the same time, the first protest that kicked off this wildfire that spread across the country was according to many initiated by hard liners. there's a lot going on inside the establishment. >> it does strike me that it's fascinating that what seems to have fueled this as you say were r revealing how much money the military, hard liners, religious foundations were gett