already deeply unstable possibly was no rabbits are to be looked at meantime professor sayad mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says the real goal of the u.s. is to prevent the arab and muslim world from getting stronger to protect its closest ally in the region israel. they're not on the side of the people in the people recognize that they're playing a double game they're on the one hand very much on the side of the establishment on the side of. a mouse with a man but on the other hand they tell the egypt and people that they they hear their voices and they wish to pray for their freedom but we all know that the ruling establishment cannot last without american support and the chips in people know that these countries do not want them to be free not only because do they want the americans and europeans want to remain in power and have their head germany in these countries but they also know that an independent egypt an independent jordan and an independent arabia meaning sodium rabia is something that would be detrimental to the israeli regime so the united states and the europea

discuss the wave of public anger in the muslim world i'm joined by mohammad marandi into ran he's a professor at the university of tehran in chicago we go to coffee and sunny he's assistant professor of international studies at de paul university and in london we crossed to david hardwell he's country risk expert from the middle east and north africa and i h s janes and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want professor mohammad marandi in toronto if i can go to you first if i if i read the mosque i'm sorry the wall the washington post or the new york times. etc etc in the united states your country is on the verge of having a crisis a revolution and its people's power and it's a repetition of egypt of tunisia and are you getting ready to pack your bags to leave. well i think if you have been reading the washington post or the new york times or if you've been watching a.b.c. n.b.c. or c.b.s. or and c.n.n. at these for the last couple of decades you would have been thinking that for the last three decades now th

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department began sending twitter messages to iranians in their native tongue professors said mohammad marandi from the university of tehran tells us that washington is losing ground in the region the united states seems very desperate because this is a very desperate measure the americans know they are losing out in the middle east and the middle east is becoming independent even its key allies are no longer stable countries regimes like jordan and saudi arabia and yemen it's not clear how long they will last the united states is in serious trouble on all fronts it's in trouble in iraq and afghanistan and lebanon in tunisia in egypt the americans are desperately trying to bring about change in iran but the fact is that republic of iran is highly popular with a small group of people who rioted downtown tehran today which are no more than a few hundred they constitute a small minority the iranians basically want their independence they want to remain independent apartheid in palestine if the americans are able to come to terms with the reality in iran the iranians are quite willing to to move t

well for more analysis on this i'm now joined by professor so you had mohammad marandi from the university of tehran. right this time around the world the u.s. has tried in the past to overthrow a medina jazz regime but they did succeed how is the u.s. playing a similar role in egypt's politics now. i think it's quite the reverse because on both occasions. the us lost in iran of course the strong majority supported this public and despite the attempts of the united states. public remains a very stable and strong country but on the other hand the egyptian regime is very close to the united states and the united states which is very much to keep him in power according to even jimmy carter the american truly want mubarak to stay but that is no longer possible carol but they do not want to see the regime swept away. all right well washington has been supporting mubarak's regime for almost thirty years but then we've heard the u.s. president sort of changing his rhetoric so why do you think that is. well it's almost identical to what happened during the xargs reign the united states have as as

the hunger gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want professor mohammad marandi and to ron if i can go to you first if i read the mosque i'm sorry the walla washington post or the new york times. etc etc in the united states your country is on the verge of having a crisis a revolution and it's people's power and it's a repetition of egypt of tunisia and are you getting ready to pack your bags to leave. well i think if you have been reading the washington post or the new york times or if you've been watching a.b.c. n.b.c. or c.b.s. or and c.n.n. at these for the last couple of decades you would have been thinking that for the last three decades now the united states has constantly said that iran in iran the situation is deteriorating but the facts on the ground are that this time republican strong popular support and that there are different political organizations and groups in the country with a very differing ideas about how the country should be run but the political establishment is very stable and as you saw during the anniversary of the revolution just a we

government struggles to decide on who to support an edge of professor side mohammad marandi says america has only one goal in the region to prevent the arab and muslim world from getting stronger. they're not on the side of the people in the people recognise that they're playing a double game they're on the one hand very much on the side of the establishment on the side of. the most with a man but on the other hand they tell the kitchen people that they hear their voices and they wish and pray for their freedom but we all know that the ruling establishment cannot last without american support and the church and people know that these countries do not want them to be free not only because do they want the americans and the europeans who want to remain in power and have their head to be in these countries but they also know that an independent egypt independent jordan and independent arabia meaning so to arabia is something that would be detrimental to the israeli regime so the united states and the europeans will wish very much to prevent the people of the region from empowerment. they wa