believe in i was trying to earlier by jamal obviously he's the policy director of the national iranian american council and i asked him what we should make of all of these changes. these are all extremely positive signs this could all be leading to a historic meeting between president obama and president rouhani at the u.n. general assembly next week rouhani since taking office six weeks ago has he said a lot of positive things a lot of people in washington were saying well that's all well and good but we don't know if he's actually going to be able to deliver prime minister of israel netanyahu said he smiling while he's building a bomb he's a wolf in sheep's clothing and yet what we found is that rouhani over the past six weeks has managed to convert these positive words into positive actions he's demonstrating that he can deliver he has a little bit of space right now he's not going to have an infinite infinite amount of time to do so because there are hardliners in iran who don't want any sort of approach model with the u.s. but there is time right now the question is is obama going to be able to do

well let's get more on the story told to the policy director of the national iranian american council thank you for coming on to the program this evening generally speaking positive noises coming from iran is this a new chapter between iran and us in terms of their relations. it certainly appears like it's a new chapter it remains to be seen whether the two leaders will meet in new york next week whether rowhani and obama frankly can hold off hardliners on both sides of the debate to allow for some productive negotiations to take place but right now it looks very hopeful and what you think we can expect from this meeting if it does go ahead do you think it is just a symbolic gesture or come we expect more. well at this point you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with an iranian president since since you know the nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is probably some sort of symbolic handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a su

the president of the national iranian american council and author of single roll of the dice is in washington, d.c. this morning. dr., that you can so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> 34 years is a long time. this isn't the first time the two countries have gotten close to talking. what's different now? >> there's a lot that is actually different. you're absolutely right. there is plenty of missed opportunities between the two sides, just when it comes to hand shakes, in 2000, the president had the opportunity to shake president clintons hand, but at that point was not willing to take that political risk. what's different this time around is both sides seem to have a far greater degree of readiness at the same time than we've seen in any previous instances. what we've usually seen is one side is ready and the other side is not but for the first time, it seems both sides may have enough readiness this time around. >> we know iran is ready. this meeting has been a huge press push by the iranian government, a government long unwilling to live up to its obligations to the natio

conversations with great minds i'll sit down with dr trita parsi founder and president of the national iranian american council talk about the united states a long and complicated relationship with iran. you need to know this today secretary of state john kerry met with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov in geneva switzerland for a second straight day of talks over a plan to hand syria's chemical weapons over to international authorities one of the major sticking points of the geneva talks is the secretary. kerry and the obama administration want to leave the possibility of a unilateral military strike on the table in case negotiations fall through russia insists that any american attack on syria would be a violation of international law and is demanding that the u.s. call off any attack plans in exchange for syria handing over its chemical weapons an american attack on syria without the authorization of the united nations security council would in fact be a violation of international law the u.n. only allows states to use force without the authorization of the security council when an armed attack occurs a

general assembly next week jamal abdi political director at national iranian american council shares his thoughts on what can be expected from this potential landmark meeting you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with an iranian president since since you know the nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is probably some sort of symbolic handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a substantive meeting between both sides to actually address with these outstanding issues that are on the table including obviously the nuclear issue where rouhani has expressed willingness to increase transparency and perhaps put some caps on the nuclear program but that meeting will also necessitate some discussion of actually easing sanctions on the u.s. side but i think that this is definitely possible. and to some other news in brief now kenya's security forces have reportedly contained al shabab militants in a shopping mall in nairobi after the islam

general assembly next week jamal of deep political director of the national iranian american council shares his thoughts on what can be expected from this potential landmark meeting you know there's a lot of work to be done i mean no u.s. president has actually sat down with the iranian president since since you know the nine hundred seventy nine revolution so i think what we can expect from this upcoming meeting is balik handshake or or signal something along those lines but i do think that this paves the way for a substantive meeting between both sides to actually address with these outstanding issues that are on the table including obviously the nuclear issue where rouhani has expressed willingness to increase transparency and perhaps put some caps on the nuclear program but that meeting will also necessitate some discussion of actually easing sanctions on the u.s. side but i think that this is definitely possible. the deadliest assault on civilians in iraq this year has claimed the lives of at least ninety six people after a string of attacks targeted shiite muslim neighborhoods

and the founder and president of the national iranian american council, he is also in washington, d.chank you both for joining us. president obama didn't stay to listen to the iranian president's speech instead he was at the big clinton foundation event in new york. but the iranian president made clear he did pay attention to president obama. >> i listened wailly t carefulle statement made by president obama today at the general assembly. in recent years, a dominant voice has been repeatedly heard. the military option is on the table. against a backdrop of this illegal and ineffective contention, let me say loud and clear that peace is within reach. >> hillary, a lot of interesting stuff in that speech. what stood out to you about his remarks? >> well, there is a difference, of course, between his remarks and those of his predecessor, the former president, but i don't think the substance is all that different. i think with this president we have someone who is very experienced in international law, international affairs, both he and his foreign minister has ph.ds from western institut

iranian dissident group at a prison near baghdad. that is despite word from the national council of resistance of iran that an american delegation hasked with the hostages three times. fox news david lee miller has more on the story. >> massacre that much of the world greeted with silence. controversy raged about the chemical weapons in syria, neighboring airaq 5. 2 irainiance living in exile camp were killed. relative of the victim say the amateur video recorded on september 1 shows iraqi backed forces committing the slaughter. iraq denies the allegation. among the dead, amadi 56-year-old father. >> they were there to execute. they were not there to just scare people off. they had targets. they shot every single one of my friends and my father's friends and my father. in the head. >> those killed were members of iranian on six group called the mek. the people's army that sided with saddam hussein in iraq-iran war. one is considered a terrorist organization by the u.s., many security experts now see the m.e.k. in a positive light. >> a group in favor of the democratic iran. iran with gender equality and iran that is nonnuclear. they