did the policy director of the national iranian american council for your thoughts on that ahmadinejad's speech. thank you . it's a round two in madrid today with protesters really taking to the streets of the spy brutal clashes with police last night more than one hundred people were either arrested or wounded him put his chances are cited heavily fortified parliament led by in that lead by the dignan movement of the protesters are calling for an end to austerity and that is illusion of what they call a corrupt parliament but anger and despair in spain is taking on more dangerous forms especially in the economic region of got the nia there calls for the session from spain have reached fever pitch and the result president has called early elections are hoping to capitalize on a sara to get more now on that the linnaeus prospects with and i t's spokesperson for the european partnership for independence joining us here good to see their misses a key got the money is a main gripe it seems is that it has to bankroll is still poor and underperforming spanish regions is that right yes that's r

diplomatic solution from actually materializing from some smart she thought from the national iranian american council on the line so that you keep it very with all the latest developing news tonight twenty four seventh's. as well the main headline is of course the wave of anti-american protests sweeping across the muslim world u.s. embassies and choosey in sudan under attack tonight also clashes in yemen and egypt will return to that with a headline update shortly let's get across the business now don't visit the business desk dimitry it's twenty four minutes past ten at night rally in full swing on the markets today russian gained seven percent. that's right it's a fantastic day especially for russia but it's a global rally that's after ben bernanke indeed came ahead with a new wave of the stimulus wave of quantitative easing q e three and that means buying up assets for state money or launching the printing press to purchase shares bonds other financial instruments it's an open ended program of the previous wave q.e. two was around for six hundred billion dollars this could be up to one trillion bu

why this is the case i'm joined now by jim obviously the policy director of the national iranian american american council so this is really interesting jim all i know that your group has worked tirelessly to try to prevent this from happening why do you think it happened. you know my own words to make sure that this wasn't the delisting decision wasn't the result of a politicized process in which a designated terrorist organization uses money lobbying p.r. to pressure it's way off of the terrorist list i think of in the day this shows that the campaign that the m e k bardon worked and that paying people like rudy giuliani and howard dean to pressure the state department to take this group off the list and it up working and it creates a really dangerous precedent for other organizations that are dangerous to u.s. interests and undermine frankly our policy regarding resolving the dispute with iran peacefully i mean you mentioned rudy giuliani and others it's not just former politicians and people who had a former role we're talking about current lawmakers ileana roslin and the chairman of the house foreign

which it insists is for peaceful purposes but jamal abdi the policy director of the national iranian american council believes the sanctions only force iran to spend even more on nuclear research. i don't know that you could actually look at the last revenues from oil exports and say iran has taken away money from its nuclear program or reduced money for military spending because frankly with the threat of war i think iran is probably continuing down the path that has already already has been on with. nations you know there's no perfect sanctions regime there's always going to be holes there's always going to be loopholes there's always going to be this game of whack a mole where iran responds and in the u.s. tries to ratchet up and you're never going to get a perfect embargo. so i think that the question is the question is ok now you have these sanctions what do we do with these are we going to leverage these or is this a repeat of what we had with iraq where we did a great job of restricting oil sales and then doing oil for food but at the end of the day that didn't actually yield anything but mass

from the national iranian american council says iran's opponents could actually benefit from the fiery speech well if you look at what's happening inside of iran really if you are sanctions that are taking an extreme toll on ordinary people there is a sense that there could be imminent strikes whether there are strikes threatened by bibi netanyahu or u.s. strikes that president obama referred to in his address and so i think that if there is a sense of being surrounded inside of iran that it is an accurate reflection of what is happening that being said you know i'm not sure of what the strategic thinking was in delivering this speech normally when he when he comes to the united states these are speeches designed to provoke angsty and to generate media attention on the u.s. and the israeli side i think that there are still statements that it is god made that will you know will be used to create the impression that iran is not a rational actor and that there needs to be military conflict. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today scenes of violence engulfed athens as hundreds of anti aus

iranian militant group american. off terror a blacklist. the policy director of the national iranian american council believes the sudden change of heart over an organization striving to overthrow the iranian regime is now coincidence. u.s. officials went public they went to n.b.c. and said is working with mossad to conduct assassinations inside of iran so there is clearly at least reportedly still a paramilitary aspect to this group and they are committed to advancing their political agenda by using violence and here's the thing if these guys could. pressure their way off the terrorists they could pour millions of dollars into the top lobbying firms in the united states and basically manufacture this campaign to achieve their political agenda here imagine what they're going to do now that the any case off the list and you have all this money that we don't know where it's coming from is swirling around and the next push is we need war with iraq there could be no mistake that this campaign was a campaign to make war more likely this was part of the push for war when you have negotiations between the u.s. and iran the number one hurdle from t

with the canadian delegations walking out of the chamber in protest jamal abdi from the national iranian american council believes such reactions are made in porto. the walkout that normally happens or in this case the fact that the u.s. and israeli missions did not even come to the speech i think is mostly political theater i don't think that this means anything this is about as sharp rebuke as can be delivered during these speeches but at the end of the day it's meaningless it's i think silliness that bears no mark on the reality of how these situations need to be resolved i think they do though speak to political. you know the political risk of appearing to be willing to listen engage to. you know foreign countries that we disagree with. you watching on t.v. thank you for joining us today just a bit ahead of you in the program we'll look at whether the relationship between the u.s. and israel could now be on rocky ground the cracks have been there for a while and now seem to be growing wider washington growing tired of israel's insistent calls for a strike on iran over its atomic plant. found the u.k.

the policy director of the national iranian american council believes the sudden change of heart over an organization striving to overthrow the iranian regime is no coincidence. u.s. officials went you know public they went to n.b.c. and said i mean kerry is working with mossad to conduct assassinations inside of iran so there is clearly at least reportedly still a paramilitary aspect to this group and they are committed to advancing their political agenda by using violence there could be no mistake that this campaign was a campaign to make war more likely this was part of the push for war when you have negotiations between the u.s. and iran the number one hurdle from the iranian side is this perception that the united states doesn't actually want to negotiate. resolution to the nuclear issue that this is about regime change just like on our side our number one concern is we can't trust the iranians that they don't want to nuclear weapons this adds fuel to the fire inside of iran that this is really about regime change in the united states is not going to accept any kind of diplomatic

church with a canadian delegation looking out of a tree in protest jamelle from the national iranian american council believes that such reactions are laid in taste on the walkout that normally happens or in this case the fact that the us israeli missions did not even come to the speech i think is mostly political theater i don't think that this means anything this is about as sharp rebuke as can be delivered during these speeches but at the end of the day. it's meaningless it's i think so innes that bears no. mark on the reality of how these situations need to be resolved i think we do though speak to political . you know the political risk of appearing to be willing to listen and engage to. you know foreign countries that we disagree with. another day of strong opinion is expected at the u.n. general assembly on thursday as israeli and palestinian leaders address the chamber mahmoud abbas who caused a few right at the u.n. with his failed bid for palestinian statehood this time pursues a more modest goal to gain nonmember observer status but some regional experts think that with israel's main focus

activities are unlikely to be a coincidence or the view of the policy director of the national iranian american council. u.s. officials went you know public they went to n.b.c. and said i mean working with with mossad to conduct assassinations inside of iran so there is clearly at least reportedly still a paramilitary aspect to this group and they are committed to advancing their political agenda by using violence imagine what they're going to do now that the any case off the list and you have all this money that we don't know where it's coming from is swirling around and the next push is we need war with iraq there can be no mistake that this campaign was a campaign to make war more likely this was part of the push for war this adds fuel to the fire inside of iran that this is really about regime change in the united states is not going to accept any kind of diplomatic resolution. well there in new t. towards iran is seeping out of the streets of the big apple as we report in just a few minutes here on r.t. and t. . here in the new york subway you search for the thin line between free speech and hate

find reason for confrontation that's the view of jamelle the policy director of the national iranian american council. i'm not sure what the strategic thinking was in delivering this speech normally when he when he comes to the united states these are speeches designed to provoke anx and to generate media attention and really you know i think that there were there was a fair number of remarks that will be perceived as incendiary remarks that will be exploited by folks on both sides of the debate in order to heighten tensions. you know on the u.s. and the israeli side i think that there are still statements that the judge made that will you know will be used to create the impression that iran is not a rational actor and that there needs to be a military conflict but i think this is all spin this is all noise and at the end of the day once the political theater is over we need to all figure out how we're going to get back to the negotiating table to resolve these many issues not just the nuclear issue but the human rights situation in iran through serious diplomacy i'll be back off the shelf break don'

mongering lead to here to help us break this all down is jamal abby policy director of the national iranian american council thanks for coming on so you worked in congress for a while and you are pretty much an expert when it comes to u.s. foreign policy affairs regarding iran we just heard general dempsey recently talk about i mean quote he said diplomacy sanctions and sabotage need more time i mean when we're talking about iran sanctions here are they really achieving the desired result or will it inhibit a troop deployment a diplomatic solution here that's i mean that's actually the problem here the sanctions have in many regards stood in the way of a diplomatic solution the last time that the u.s. and iran actually went to the table a few months ago. the real problem was that you did put some offers on the table as far as curbing their nuclear program and they wanted in exchange for the u.s. or the e.u. to curb some of their sanctions this is supposed to be a sort of near term confidence building step and i'm not saying that the iranians necessarily were asking for the most equitable deal possible but t