let's cross live abrams fellow at the quincy institute for responsible state craft . just 1st of all our u.n. official is saying more french troops will not help the situation in mali. is a pretty big statement that your thoughts do you agree. i do agree i mean the french intervened in mali 20132014 when they were quite successful and that could create the impression that military force is a good solution to this insurgency. but in general those kinds of successes tend to be quite. this is a very difficult insurgency to cause. for one thing we're not just talking about mali we're talking about the greater region and next to mali. you know faso further away nor libya which is a contributor in terms of weaponry to the stockers syria in so this entire year. is full of militants and the militants or very there's a variety of we're talking about. isis guys local guy who grievances who have latched on to these transnational group. so it's very hard for me to imagine that the french will simply have $500.00 troops and that is going to resolve things the fear is always in the

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incident on sunday 20 soldiers were killed by islamist fighters max abrams he's a fellow at the quincy institute for sponsible state craft thinks that any negotiates with the terror groups what actually be productive. a greater portion of international terrorism will move to africa specially so as well as in libya their fighters are going to continue to increase in number particularly because we're dealing with one of the world's poorest areas with weak governance these kinds of field states create a power vacuum ideal for terrorists of all sorts of brightness so it's very hard for me to imagine what the french will simply have $500.00 troops and that is going to resolve things the reality is that sometimes there is no good answer fighting them isn't going to work talking to them probably won't work either islamic state is growing in mali and throughout this a hell they do not want okies process al qaeda is in its lowest group also very difficult to negotiate with and so even though i'm a skeptic that military force you know is not going to work that doesn't mean that i think that negotiations a

trita parsi is executive vice president at the quincy institute.e national iranian american council. what do you make of this development? the president is going to veto it so does it have any significance? it really does, in this highly partisan atmosphere in washington where nothing gets done they found one issue in which they could collaborate sufficiently and that was on a measure to prevent donald trump from going to war with iran and evenif from going to war with iran and even if donald trump vetoes this appeal, the constraints this appeal, the constraints this puts on him because it is a manifestation of public opinion because of the american public is not want war with iran, you cannot wish that constraint away. yet not enough republican senators felt strongly enough to avoid the veto ? strongly enough to avoid the veto? certainly but on most measures you do not have a single republican shift aside. it does not only show a desire of not going to war with iran but also make sure the constitution be followed. when barack obama constitution be

people coming out and taking to the polls to surpass see is executive vice president of the quincy institute a think tank in washington d.c. he says many iranians have lost hope of changing the country through the ballot box the iranian people have a long history of standing up for their rights and protesting unfortunately not always getting what the deserve but nevertheless they've not usually been sitting silently and downing of the airliner was a very prime example of it happening only days after the assassination of money but what it also shows is that so much of the population have lost faith in the centrist and the reformist ability to be able to bring about change because at the end of the rouhani more or less put all of his eggs in the g.c.b. away in the nuclear the other and essentially argue that by striking that the opening up to the west things will get better and that has proven to be false because of trump walking out of the us so there's a lot of this illusion with rouhani and the centrists and the reformers as to whether they can make any change and that is a big reason as to

people coming out and taking to the polls with a policy is the executive vice president of the quincy institute a think tank in washington d.c. he says but iranians have lost hope of changing the country through the ballot box the iranian people have a long history of standing up for their rights and protesting unfortunately not always getting what the deserve but nevertheless they've not usually been sitting silently and downing of the airliner was a very prime example of it happening only days after this last nation of sleep money but what it also shows is that so much of the population have lost faith in the centrist and the reformist ability to be able to bring about change because at the end of the rouhani more or less put all of his eggs in the g.c.b. away in the nuclear the of and essentially argue that by striking that the opening up to the west things will get better and that has proven to be false because of trump walking out of the us so there's a lot of this illusion with rouhani and the centrists and the reformers as to whether they can make any change and that is a big reason as t

well truth of piracy is an executive vice president of the quincy institute a think tank in washington d.c. via skype from reston in virginia good to have you with us on the program it seems that president rouhani really has his back up against a wall if he's a reformer and he's now faced with a parliament of conservatives one might think it's just easier to resign and tell the hardliners to get on with it. well 1st of all he's not a reformers he's a he's a centrist but you're quite correct he had his back against the wall and he has already had his back against the wall for the last 2 and a half years ever since donald trump walked out of the nuclear deal and started really imposing sanctions on iran part of the reason why the conservatives won this time around of course is because they were in a position to eliminate. reformist and others from even being able to run so people don't have much of a choice but it's also because of the fact that the conservatives have managed to shift the blame of the bad economic situation following troops withdraw from the new could be of people not ju