mr. khatami and khamenei are great figures and have to put this debate in the debate with mr. mahmoud ahmadinejad and get answer to his points. i answer the race because i feel the danger in fact i am on gwen to touch of the area of mr. khatami. during the four years he is talking about when i was in power during the lifetime of ali khamenei and if necessary get answer to his plans. i've always loved iran and i think this lot is inherent in all of us. i cannot find any iranian not to be honored to be an iranian who wasn't concerned that the future of iran or the difficulties and problems. we want to create an dayron that is prosperous. the revolution was in fact launched in order to have a great islamic iran and influential iran to be able to lead the pack to and important message to the world but in solving the problems of the country and in order to achieve the proper place i think there are two ways there can be to managements in this regard. one is on the basis of adventurism and instability and raising the slogans, imaginative moves and also superstition on the basis of s

mr. khamenei, who has a final say on all matters of state. the regime appeared to back his victory. the media trumped -- trumpeted the apparent victory hours before the official results were released. caller: what do they want the guy to do, say i am the president of the united states and i'm going to tell you what to do? this is racist. think about the last eight years. i have to say that the way predict that these people do have the right to protest. -- i have to say that the people have the right to protest. host:iran has restricted all journalists working for foreign media from reporting on the streets -- that is reported from eight -- that is according to a tweet. caller: our election is still questionable with all the intimidation. thank you. host: david writing that obama would make a mistake if he seemed to meddle in iranian politics. he struck the right tone when he said the world is watching and inspired. the basic message is we support the people. any change in how iran is governed is their decision, not america's. one knowledgeable former c.i.a. officer says the protests

mr. ayatollah khamenei on some points. but there have been influential religious leaders such as one under house arrest for several years who has also openly supported the protests and has objected to the way the elections have been done. host: the next question comes from atlanta on our republican line. caller: good morning, ladies. to start off i would like to let you know that i'm a kosher christian. my question is -- i'm hoping that these protesters are actually individuals who understand that ahmadinejad is twisting what the koran actually stands for. i do not believe that the koran once the death of israel, the other side of abraham's child. i'm from atlanta, in a microcosm of the world. many people here -- we go to a market and seek people from all around the world and get along quite perfectly choosing our produce. what i am hoping and praying is that these protesters are standing up, not embarrassing themselves by bloomberg jewish people for everything which is seems some in america -- but not blaming jewish peopl

mr. ayatollah khamenei, but the fact of what he created in 199 goes against the ten ents and principles ofiite islam. the clerics believe it is not the responsibility of the clergy to govern. they have been saying that from day one. and some of them in fact after saying such things have been put under house arrest. we have the case of an ayatollah who was tortured in prison. i have accept an open letter and doing everything to appeal to the international committee to look into his case. this is a regime that doesn't even pity a member of their own, let alone anyone else. this has become a define moment for clerics both in the interests of the nation, but also in the interests of the faith and the clerical establishment, to show its complete demarcation from the system. i think we can anticipation that, too. >> over here? >> my understanding is that there is a fair amount of differences between iranians in the country side and those in the cities. what portion of the population live in the cities and what percent of the protestors represent the total people of iran? >> to what extent to the

mr. alex damany's making this a systemic problem to making the argument that this is a crash -- despite khamenei's makin this is systemic problem, to making the argument that this is a crash. i think outside governments might start thinking about policies that actually directly harm individual members of that government. who ever is identified in terms of ambassadors, in terms of people they send out side. people have talked about the possibility of political sanctions. individual members of this government. things are working out so fast that i do not think it is time pro -- for the obamas situation -- i think it is time for obama to assess this situation, but that introduces us to new possibilities of policies that obama can pursue. old ones on the table will still be as ineffective as they were before all those things happened. >> let me expand on what was said about the report. the report from the head of the mossad. that is described in an article in "the daily star" yesterday. published in beirut. the head is quoted as saying that iran's military program would mature in 2014. this is a consi

mr. mir hossein mousavi, in his own town, was swamped. that makes no sense at all. guest: i was talking to end iranian experts this week in washington. his guess, fairly inform, was that the ayatollah khamenei wanted a big victory from -- for ahmadinejad. the word went out. they all became overly successful, getting into the 60's, when they probably needed an election of 57%, not 62%. they overplayed their hand. all of the thousands of people who are responsible, and the boat got higher than the regime expected. -- vote got higher than the regime expected. it strain plausibility. you might not have had people in the streets were not for a small percentage. guest: 1972, nixon decided to manipulate that election a little bit. guest: i would not want to comment on that. guest: i am saying that the over the top behavior is something that the government wanted to do and it has come back at them. host: basically, according to this, "we cannot fight their battles for them nor, as conservative hawks fantasize, trigger regime change." saying that the president is doing what needs to. guest: we are all guessing. not just republicans and the old guard feria -- old guard. . the secretary of state has b