khomeini era." and so i got in the complete time of his rule in iran. c-span: why the name "in the name of god"? guest: because that's the basis, the justification, for everything iran has done over this decade, carried out in the name of god, be it acts of violence against the united states, the war with iraq, the taking of hostages. both domestic and foreign policy were shaped around god's laws and carried out in god's name. c-span: did you ever meet khomeini? guest: no, i didn't. i met several members of his family and talked to them at great length, and they offered some unusual insight, but in the last years of his life, khomeini was never interviewed. it was the first period that when he got back, when noriana falachi and various other people who were there at the time got to see him. c-span: who in his family did you meet? guest: i met his son, ahmed, who is a very powerful man in his own right now. i met his daughter, who has some very interesting kind of family-type stories about what it wa

khomeini promised more than oncs of times. he gave more than 110 interviews in paris in the three months that he was in paris. he gave more than 110 interviews to foreign correspondents. not once does he mention the word -- which is the rule or the guardianship of the jurist council, the guardianship of the clergy which is the iranian regime today. not once. in fact, repeatedly, when he was asked whether the government of iran was going to be a government of the clergy, he said absolutely not. he said, i myself will go to the city, a seminary school not far from tehran and will leave all the power to the people. the same constitution that was drafted for iran welcome any was now back in iran, the shah had already fled the country. the regime had already fallen. the first constitution that was developed was profoundly democratic constitution. but then the war with iraq, the occupation of the american embassies, was used by khomeini to gradually but brutally and efficiently sidelined and marginalize the democratic forces, one by

>> where did khomeini come from back to iran? >> where did -- well, most of his life, his life in exile, he spent in iraq, actually. but the last part of it, saddam hussein was making some deals, apparently, with the iranian government, and life for khomeini in iraq was becoming a little hard, so he went to france and this little village called neuflet that toe, which became very -- chateau, which became very famous and everybody would go to visit him, and that was what made khomeini so well known. some people say the first revolution was through the media, you know. >> how much attention did he get when he was in france? >> oh, he got amazing attention, because first of all i think that figure of this stately ayatollah sitting under the apple tree was a very attractive image, and khomeini himself was a very charismatic personality, and then many people made sort of patronages to where he was, you know, whether they were muslim or not, and this was a very attractive image for the media. and the image of the tradition taking over

first of all, there was a charismatic religious leader by the name of ayatollah khomeini who was really one of the main leaders of the 1979 revolution. he did not hide his desire for an islamic republic. the other thing that was going on is there was a wide variety of different groups. you had communists, you had islamist marxists and varying degree of leftists. islamic thoughts were indulged in a way the intellectual class of egypt does not do today. i think that's the most significant difference. there is no ayatollah khomeini in egypt today. >> brown: lastly, robin, i want to bring you again right to today. we saw president obama with some pretty tough talk, right? is this... does this look like a strategy, a new strategy by the u.s. administration to deal with iran? >> it's a clear shift. the administration back in 2009 was very reluctant to come out and say decisively we are for the protestors and the iranian government must be accountable and stop these brutal practices. president obama and several administrations since last friday since mubarak left egypt have used striking langu

hundred seventy nine the islamic republic was created following the revolt led by the late ayatollah khomeini. hundreds of transport workers in the greek capital are protesting against planned sector reforms workers from athens metro system its trams trolleys all walk out the demonstration is the latest in a series of disruptions in the city the reforms are part of a public sector cost cutting exercise which is being implemented following a multi-billion euro bailout aimed at rescuing greece's economy. police marksmen have shot and killed the gunmen who taken seven hostages during a bank robbery in the us state of north carolina following a three hour standoff the nineteen year old walked out of the bank holding a female hostage and pointing a gun to her head police then opened fire all seven hostages caught up in the robbery were said to be on harms. are close a team discovery of the western area continues as they get an inside look into the culture and traditions of the region and the city. republic is known for its rich culture and traditions many of which have been passed down through the

hundred seventy nine the islamic republic was created following the revolt led by the late ayatollah khomeini. hundreds of transport workers in the greek capital are protesting against plans sector reforms workers from athens metro system its trams trolley buses all walk out the demonstrations the latest in a series of disruptions in the city the reforms are part of a public sector cutting exercise which is being implemented following a multi billion euro bailout aimed at rescuing greece's economy. business update is next here on our team with dimitri stay with us. well welcome to the program good to have your company nickel is trying once again to resolve the shareholder dispute that's dogging the company russia's largest miners made an improved of by twenty percent of its shares from south for twelve point eight billion dollars in december the miner offered to buy all twenty five percent of themselves shares for twelve billion dollars which was the rejected no nichols other major shareholder into roles has been fighting with roussel for control of the company since june in a further blow to

hundred seventy nine b. a slum a republic was created followed by the revolt led by the late ayatollah khomeini. police marksmen have a shot and killed the gunmen who had taken seven hostages during a bank robbery in the us state of north carolina following a three hour standoff the one thousand year old walked out of the bank holding a female hostage and pointing a gun to her head police then opened fire on seven hostages involved in the robbery were said to be unharmed. well let's get down to business to me but he joins us and it looks like the russian markets are finally recovering well somewhat of a recovery there were massive losses the previous sessions but we're seeing banking stocks and mining stocks feeling really well today we'll look at just a second first of all british oil major b.p. looks set to get its dividend from. the russian joint venture now a russian. promise to block the estimated one point eight billion dollar payout for the fourth quarter that was after b.p. and russian oil giant both in the aftermath of the massive swap and arctic exploration. claim that the zero compro

was the fall of the rand from their point of view in one nine hundred seventy nine to one told the khomeini and the revolution that brought him back to power took place let's not forget that iran was clearly in american hands since one nine hundred fifty three when the cia ousted president most of it. most of it and so clearly the united states will support anything that will promote what they want to call regime change in iran especially considering that it ran is such a powerful country from the point of view not only of its potential military and also its potential with oil but also its potential as being a theocracy we are in the slammy world the dollar is based in tehran hold great sway over for literally hundreds of millions of muslims so whatever happens in ran is far more important than even look what happened with saddam hussein in iraq well we've seen it in tunisia we've seen it in egypt we see a regime change in iran. i very much doubt and i think that the united states is showing that it has its geo political stands in the long run fails they have installed puppet governments th

this is what her book looks like, "in the name of god: the khomeini decade." thank you very much for joining us. guest: thank you. .. a. >> i will tell you about this book that i have just written about "the balfour declaration." it was published or written and given to the cabinet and accepted by the british cabinet on november 2nd november 2nd, 1917. in the balfour declaration, great britain promised to support an establishment of a national home for the jews in palestine and as jackie said, today the bell fuller declaration is seen as the foundation stone of modern israel and something to be celebrated but others it is seen as a first step of the arab and dispossession and misery and something to be deplored. but everybody has viewed it as the inevitable byproduct of growing anglo zionist intimacy during world war i. every previous book to my knowledge about the declaration celebrates the remarkable campaign led by the zionist leader in great britain, of the russian born chemist and they celebrate how they talk the principles of his movement of zionism to t

have to admit that in the west, just as we demonized saddam--but maybe we were right--we demonized khomeiniend to think of a lot of third world rulers-- obviously they're not democratically elected and they're not nice guys; they wouldn't be up there--but we tend to think of them as so immoral and so thuggish that, in the end, if we get any kind of agreement with them, it's through force or bullying or whatever. they're hopeless people to be dealing with, and especially in the balkans. we think of the three that you dealt with, plus the pali serbs, as being horrible people. are we right, or are we exaggerating? - uh... you're right. [both laughing] - i finally got my answer. - that was easy. - and it's a terrible answer. i mean, in the end, the third-- - the answer's shorter than the question. - would you say that the third world, by and large, is ruled-- outside of the democratic regimes--is ruled by peop-- - no, there are 180 countries in the world, and democracy has been increasing rapidly. there are far more people living in democratic conditions today than there were ten or 15 years ag

khomeini is going against god himself. and it is himself god, there's no he/she in that language. god is man, and ladies have to just live with the fact that it is misogynist cos moll. in all of these three questions -- the domestic question and the international three questions that i mentioned -- the shah figured very prominently. in his period, 1941 to 1979, figures extremely prominently. it is the contention of the book that the iranian democratic movement that we have heard so much about, the green movement that we hear so much about that created some kind of a mythical almost movement by bringing three million people in a city of 12 million people who silently marched and asked what happened to my -- [inaudible] where did it go? that movement was in every fundamental composition the same social forces that brought the shah down. so unking why the shah fell, understanding why the coalition was formed against him -- and it was a very strange coalition and i will explain why it is strange -- helps us understand why there has been political instability in iran for the last 30 ye

overthrow of president hosni mubarak and tonight they're chanting, "mubarak, ben ali, now it's time for khomeiniof conduct and woods agreed. he said he was wrong to do it and that he was sorry. the undisclosed fine could be up to $16,000. >>> and just when you thought you had the newest, coolest version of the iphone, we're now hearing rumors of a new model that will make this one look like an old brick motorola. "the wall street journal" says apple is planning a new iphone nano, half the size of the current one and half the price as well. apple, as always, is staying tight-lipped. >> i need them to do a buy back program like target and best buy. it would be so helpful. >>> man versus machine on "jeopardy!" this week and so far the supercomputer and super champions are holding their own. >> round one ended with a $5,000 tie between ibm's watson and "jeopardy!'s" all-time money winner brad rutter. ken jennings, who had the show's longest winning streak is trailing with just 2gs. watson made several mistakes, including giving a wrong response just moments after jennings gave the very same wrong re

this morning, iran's supreme leader, ayatollah khomeini, praised the massive demonstrations as a quote, islamic liberation movement and called for the uprising to cross the middle east to bring down the united states. a senate committee has found that the fbi and army had enough cause to dismiss major hasan before he allegedly went on the shooting rampage as ft. hood, texas, killing 13 and wounding 32 others. the finding, unwillingness to confront homegrown islamic extremism, prevented officials from taking action in major hasan's case. >>> mark kely, the husband of gabrielle giffords, will command the final mission of the space shuttle "endeavour" in april. kelly has been by his wife's side ever since she was shot through the head in tucson last month. he will make the official statement later today. >>> now to the nation's unemployment rate. down to 9%. trish regan joins us from cnbc world headquarters. on the surface this seems like very good news. what's behind these numbers? >> you know, ann, very confused by the report. how can you have such a big reduction in the unemployment ra