they took us to the airport in tehran. in buses i think i was blindfolded, but i think they shoved me into the bathroom of the bus not out of any site, just because that was the only room that was there. but it didn't matter to me. i was happy to ride on the roof or the baggage department. >> did you know you were leaving at that point? >> yes. when you don't know until you are actually out with algerian medical people and so although they tried to convince us that only some of us were going to be of how happy and how treated we were would determine whether we would stay or win but the algerians gave that away and said no, no, you are all going. so, we knew. we got to the airport. there were the algerian 727i believe which were there on board. when i got on the plane i saw the ambassador for the first time in 14 months. i saw the swiss ambassador was checking our names of his list making sure everybody was there. there were some reporters there, but after awhile they closed the door and we took off. i am a great fan. >> so

in tehran. edison buses. i was blindfolded, but i think they showed me to the bathroom of the russ, not out of any spite, just because that was the only thing that was there. but it didn't matter to me. i is happy to read on the roof for the baggage compartment. >> did you know you are leaving at this point? >> yes. i mean, you don't know until you're actually out, but we had visited the night before a group of algerian medical people only need the all juergens remediated. so although the iranians try to convince us that only some of us were going in that state as we made to their television, and interview about presumedly atmosphere treated at how happy we were would determine whether we stay or wan, but the give that away and said no, you're all going. so we knew. we got to the airport, a lasher 727 i believe, which were their onboard. when i got on the plane, i saw ambassador langdon for the first time in 14 months. i saw the swiss ambassador dare come ambassador eric lang was there checking earnings of hi

from the university of tehran says the ban has been a long time coming. some of the european governments the united states government doesn't like iranian media outlets you may remember in the leaky leaks documents be have had cables that you know u.s. officials talk about the iranian channels on talk about thinking about finding ways of stopping their broadcasting and sort of banning them many of these channels that have been banned actually broadcast in farsi for iranian expatriates who live in united states or europe so the situation that we have is obviously contrary to freedom of information that the number of countries all this talk about it's contrary to the issue of freedom of speech that we also hear from united states a number of european countries all the time and i think it basically shows that there's a double the size when it comes to iranian freedom of speech voices or progressive voices from iran that has to be banned but there really is not related to. the pentagon and state department or excel or reading efforts to help libya create a co

it was fun and skipping from tehran.nd that part i think the genius of this story, tony picked it because he knew they could all get into it on some level. they could pretend to be the eccentric hollywood type. and he thought he could save their lives, and they could save their lives. >> it's an amazing story. you're probably not going to read another story like this about the u.s. government work. the cia likes this story. they preferred to the matt damon crazy a thousand stories that are all the rage. the cia may show this movie in their theaters, inside. but tony has always said that the job is tell the truth about the cia. to amend history. >> to amend history but not necessarily all the truth. in other words, it has to always be true, but it doesn't have to be all of it. >> exactly right. so you have to know that in this story there's still gaps the things that can't be said. but in the book, "argo," everything in that book is the truth. and we can't wait for our cia colleagues to read it, call us and say, is that m

to rescue them. >> they're a canadian film, or science fiction movie. >> we all fly in together to tehran. >> we had a film, we had real estate, we had cameras. we had whatever we needed to go out and shoot a movie. >> reporter: antonio mendez was the real cia mastermind behind the escape. >> i said let's do something flamboyant. >> reporter: they put together a film sham in hollywood. >> we decided to do the film, calling it studio six productions there were six people involved. >> reporter: they bought an ad in variety for a fake film. >> do you have a better bad idea for this? >> this is the best bad idea we have so far. >> reporter: incredibly, the bad idea worked. >> six americans in tehran, not held captive in the american embassy have escaped with the help of the canadian embassy. >> it is an understatement to say it feels good to be back. >> the cia is controversy, heros to some, villains to others, but you managed to latch on to a heroic aspect of a gutsy, creative guy. >> the guy i played as a cia agent was a real american hero, tony mendez. >> you really believe your story is g

exchange markets in tehran have been busy selling dollars or euros to iranians who see no end to the sanctions. people are complaining of high unemployment and expressing worries about the future. >> translator: this is a disaster. as the dollar goes up, it brings inflation and makes our daily essentials more expensive. >> translator: i lost my job with a food company, and i'm jobless now. >> reporter: iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has faced questions in parliament over his inability to halt the currency's decline. the european union is considering further sanctions against iran this month. the iranian government has yet to take effective action to stop the further decline of its currency. mitra bolourieh, nhk world, tehran. >>> the head of nato has acknowledged that the organization is experiencing challenging times in afghanistan. secretary general anders fogh rasmussen says insider attacks have damaged trust between nato troops and their afghan partners. >> obviously this strategy aims at undermining trust and confidence and to a certain degree it has also succeeded in tha

so they sanctions on iran will followed by muscling of its media almost dozen of tehran state t.v. and radio channels were taken off in europe next hour we'll bring you an expert analysis on what's behind the buy. for accidents have been arrested this week in bahrain of the messages on the social network site twitter that criticize demonic aim the kingdom has been seeing massive opposition rallies as people demand reforms and accuse the rulers of gathering critical voices during one of the protests a policeman was killed by a bomb blast which was blamed on terrorists and for my bahraini and peace i had a cell week things also as his response to the opposition movement is way out of it . i do believe the our city of basra in the not enough might choose to understand their people they are gambling on security solution or are the politics solution they are using power by the their brain and logic the people in bahrain they have nothing in there to challenge the authority but they are thirty they don't want to reach to the dialogue stage because if they reach the dialogue stage they wi

and going to tehran is not unusual.know that the job's going to be done much better if you're on site because the worst thing that can happen is the six amateurs are going to make a mistake and everybody's going to be in trouble. we want to be able to assess their ability to carry it off under pressure, set cetera. >> you go there and talk to them. what is their reaction. now you're telling them for the first time their whole plan? >> yes. it was quite a chunk of information for them to follow. >> what are our chances. >> one of them was a little more intelligent than we were and he was a little hesitant to climb on board until he did more thinking but we convinced him it would be nice to move quickly. >> tell us what happens then because when we watch movies or read books about these kinds of things, spy thrillers, it always seems that when the plan is actually implemented, things start going wrong. >> that moment of moving through immigration was one of those occurrences where we were not su sure. the eight of us arri

she has a book coming up called going to tehran, why the u.s. need to come to term with the islamic republic. jcl and strategies which analyzes international decision-making, and she's a co-author of www.race for iran did you also have a bio you can be but hillary also has an extensive service for -- national security council policy planting status. was one of the few american diplomats in power to negotiate with iran 2001 and 2002, about afghanistan and other issues. so we have a person with firsthand knowledge. >> thank you very much. thank you for such a kind introduction, and to dr. john duke anthony for inviting me. to this very important conference. it's good to see some friends here and some students from american university. thank you. thank you again for having me. 50 years ago this month, the united states faced perhaps the defining challenge of the cold war in the cuban missile crisis. today, some say we are facing a similar defining test for the u.s. foreign policy in how we deal with the islamic republic of iran. in this context it'

iranians protested in the streets of tehran yesterday, voicing anger about iran's plummeting currency and lost more than a third of its value in just a week. so that means it is costing citizens, a lot more to purchase imported goods. >>> american airlines is sweetening its offer as contract talks continue pilots. the carrier offering to put off

s master of disguise went into tehran and brought out six u.s.lutionaries chanting, death to america." >> just like robbing banks except in our case we had to make it look like the money was still there >> the other guy doesn't know he's been robbed >> and he's happy. reporter: that was 32 years ago. men degrees is now retired, slowd by age and illness. but he is about to appear on the big screen played by ben affleck >> my name is tony men degrees reporter: affleck is the star and director of argo which, as they say in hollywood, is based on a true story. >> these are the screen plays reporter: there's delicious irony in that since men degrees went in to rescue, in his words ex-fill trait the americans disguised as the head of a hollywood scouting crew looking for locations to shoot a movie entitled argo >> you need a cover story reporter: a lie maybe it's not credible but it's so strange that it couldn't be false. it has to be true >> i need you to help me make a fake movie >> you came to the right place this movie, if it weren't true, it would

thousands of people took to the streets of tehran two weeks ago in protest. a spokesperson from iran's petroleum ministry said earlier this month a natural gas embargo would have no effect as the country doesn't export it to the eu. iran has the second largest natural gas reserves in the world. officials say they plan to expand exports to turkey and other neighboring countries. but these latest sanctions could affect those plans. >>> eu foreign ministers agreed to tighten sanctions against syria, too. they've been trying to pressure president bashar al assad to stop a crackdown on his own people. the ministers shared their concerns about the spread of the conflict into turkey and other neighboring countries. they agreed to impose sanctions on more individuals and companies. >> we've added 28 people to the list of those subject to a travel ban and an asset freeze. two additional entities were targeted with an asset freeze. >> 54 entities and 181 people are now subject to sanctions including assad and members of his family. this is the 19th time the eu has intr

a global insurrection against banker occupation this is them manifesting itself on the streets of tehran and this is what occupy wall street is all about this what the tea party is all about if they were honest with themselves this is what anyone who's against being completely shellacked by a group of inside technocrats of banks hers is about get rid of these central bankers the protests were outside the central bank and they were calling for the governor of the central bank to stand down and ten anti-government slogans now one hundred angry traders and official money lenders gathered in front of around central bank they were chased away but it's interesting that they do focus outside the central bank which is the one that controls the value of the currency and one wonders when this collapses completely if it hasn't done it already it could be happening right now while we recording the show. you know whether or not in latin america when this happened when you saw. collapses the nation would perhaps like ecuador adopt the dollar the u.s. dollar so could we see a situation where they adopt

officials continue debating over a potential strike against tehran a newly released report weighs the advantages and consequences of taking military action joining me now to talk more about this topic is dr alston long the associate professor of international public affairs at columbia university he's also the co-author of a new report titled weighing the benefits and costs of military action against iran thank you very much for joining me today thanks very much it's a pleasure to be here dr long a bipartisan group of national security experts are the authors and signatories of this extensive report according to your findings is iran's nuclear program currently a threat to the u.s. president it's not a threat to the united states iran's nuclear program is.

these lamas said after they met with the legations from the reigning government when they travel to tehran. there have been talks but again the reigning government is also one of the causes of this come conflict we see that they are supporting the assad regime financially we see that the iranian regime itself members of the quds force the deputy head was saying that they are assisting the assad regime and the iranian regime has always insisted that assad stays no i think this is something that has to be agreed between the syrian parties but one thing's for sure flynt assad cannot stay after the massive abuses of human rights in his own country after you know there's a recent human rights report that says twenty eight hour years in syria have disappeared what can what chance is there for us are to stay we all want to negotiate a settlement after this and i think this is for the syrian people to decide ok general we told really running. from you i think in beirut you're going on let's say assad did leave what difference would it make there are still people there that are stuck in the middle

chance to sit down with the central bank governor stanley fisher and asked him whether he thinks tehrans on the brink of collapse. >> if they collapse, it's through a political impact of what's going on in the economy. they can go down and continue to go down, but people find a way to keep life, economic life, going. it seems clear that there's serious deterioration in this situation, particularly in what's happening to the exchange rate. but you what the political impact of that will be is something that remains to be seen. it is likely to have a political impact and what happens next will depend on how their authorities deal with it. >> would you say a more stable economy in iran would mean a more stable political situation in the region? >> i don't know the answer to that. there's stable at low levels and stables at high lengths. >> so in terms of the occurrence sanctions on iran, they are detrimental to the iranian economy and possibly that's a knock on effect for the region. because of the geopolitical situations, would you say they should remain viable? >> my guess is that sanctio

well the arab spring has been a disaster from the beginning for iran we saw what happened of the tehran on the line moved the one in there and basically backed the syrian people against the iranian regime's point of view and this is just going to cause this current trend of the arab spring being against iranian interests is going to continue and i don't blame and i don't blame the rains for seeing it as something negative to go to be. what do you think i don't usually. go ahead and we're going to be rude. yeah i think the radiance definitely see this differently and i think they actually are right on this point analytically they think the arab spring is working very very strongly in their favor in that any government in this region which becomes at all more representative of its peoples attitudes beliefs preferences and so forth is automatically going to become less interested in strategic cooperation with the united states much less with israel supporting that it's going to become more open to an iranian message of resistance because i think that assad in contrast to mubarak. actually

sanctions ban all transactions with tehran putting pressure on new delhi's banks to avoid processing payments the western community has been dealing of repeated economic blows tehran of its nuclear energy program which it feared might one day become weaponized iran has always denies that claim but despite this their financial news has been tightening around terrence trade and biking sectors and analyst chelius as the years overestimating its ability to control the situation the indian government is going for that we're not going to cut down on any more iranian oil imports and we'll continue buying from them and therefore the financial arrangements are being worked out but i think now that there is a time for a regional currencies to gain ground and for trading to happen in alternative currencies apart from the euro and the dollars i've seen the longer the trains will go on and the sanctions not in bericht india's ability to have relations with iran europe is in a state of decline i need to not be becoming grace it's i think they are punching above the are we in trying to impose a sol

are still ahead for you iran learns a lesson in censorship almost insulting of tehran state t.v. and radio channels who are taking off in europe will bring you want to expose and malice and what's behind obama. meanwhile in libya violence has resumed with a new vigor at least twenty six people have reportedly been killed in the latest that time by pro-government militia against the stronghold of the former regime and you may find some of the following images disturbing the town of bani walid has been under siege for other two weeks as it is suffering from severe shortages of food and let's leave this new authorities also said that mussa ibrahim a spokesman for the toppled regime has been captured in the area but later backs away from the statement and political activists. say he has sailed around the jaeger state hasn't recovered from the devastation of the nato backed rebels brought. division not only has not only for. the militias not of their couldn't very well you know which is you know highly populated area. because the. children also. used chemical weapons in the divorce. c

still ahead here this hour iran learns a lesson in censorship almost it doesn't of tehran state t.v. and radio channels we're taking of that in europe but we'll one expert's analysis on what's behind. meanwhile the need be of violence has resumed with new vigor at least twenty six people have reportedly been killed in the latest that time by pro-government militia against a stronghold of the former regime and you may find some of the following images disturbing the town of bani walid has been under siege for over two weeks now under suffering from severe shortages of food water and aneta say the there's new authorities also sad that most are abraham a spokesman for they toppled rushing had been captured in the area but later backed away from the stated journalist as a coach and as a year it says qaddafi was toppled it's hard to describe libya as a functional state. i'm getting numerous innumerable actually reports from residents of bani walid that indeed the first so-called non-government mccollum's of the state obviously it's not a state it's four hundred militias conducting mob rul

european satellite provider takes iranian stations off the air as a result of the latest sanctions on tehran exposing. some free speech. plus one of the faces of the russian opposition. is brought in for questioning by the investigative committee facing charges of planning to organize mass unrest in the country. twenty four hour news live from moscow this is the with me will receive. pulling the u.s. economy back from the brink and retaliating for the killing of american diplomats took center stage during the second presidential debate of course between mitt romney and barack obama they faced off two fresh blows with less now than a month left before the crucial vote for the white house dominants. reports now from washington. by all accounts this debate was stop. to be crucial for the president and his chances of getting reelected especially after the first debate two weeks ago when the president looked less and less competitive then governor romney this time around he was on the offensive which got the media and his supporters very excited according to television audience polls the presiden

. >> maserati just opened a show room in tehran.hey're making a mockery of international sanctions because let's face it, there's money to be made in iran and instead of respecting the fact that the global community is trying to shut down this murderous regime, maserati is going there to add to its profits. we were in front of the maserati show room in manhattan today to say that people of new york city, people all over this country, they don't like to see anyone doing business with this regime, and maserati has to ask themselves a question, do they want to make money here in america and have a real customer base here or do they want to do business in iran? they have to make a choice because they won't be able to do both. liz: in fact we have a photograph of the store front in tehran where it said maserati coming soon, but now you're telling me it is open? >> they have announced up and down the block that this is going to be a new showcase for maserati in that country. and think about this, right now maserati does about 300 million

israel is threatening to strike iran's nuclear facilities in tehran doesn't stop its uranium enrichment program. >>> in other news of the world tonight today marks a year since former liban leader muammar gaddafi was killed by rebel forces. today there are new reports his youngest son was killed today in fighting. liban national congress says only that the younger gaddafi was killed in battle, but offered no further details. >>> in france, hundreds had to be rescued today as the river in lourdes flooded its banks. the water from the spring at the grotto is through to have healing powers. >>> i get asked a lot people say man, how are you doing? i say - and i say this every time and i mean it, i say i have been better. but i have also been worse. >> armstrong made his remarks at 15th celebration of life strong the charity he founded to help those balloting cancer. on wednesday armstrong stepped down as chairman of the non- profit. last month the u.s. department of the u.s. anti-doping agency stripped him of his tour de france medals. >>> the proposition before voters that could change the

he got criticized a lot for going to tehran, but he went to tehran and criticized the butchers in syriaot criticized for not protecting our embassy better but he did protect our embassy in cairo. yes, he should be doing all those sorts of things we used to be called nation building, but we should also, you know, using the carrots and sticks to encourage that kind of behavior. >> let me pick up on one thing you said. you brought this up. what can the united states do. united states can impose a no-fly zone over syria or western syria, precisely the kind we imposed over bosnia in the 1990s. there was one line in mitt romney's speech that stayed with me. he quoted a syrian woman saying we will not forget that you've forgotten about us. i think that's important. there are ways in which we can use american power very effectively and very forcefully. so i think there are things we can do to tilt the balance in favor of our interest. >> let's talk about this. let's stay on syria for a little bit because i mean i would love to see us do more to help us get rid of the assad regime. i guess -- i

european satellite provider takes iranian stations off of the as a result of the latest sanctions on tehran exposing hypocrisy in the e.u. stance on free speech. approving the bushido position a figure is brought in for questioning by the investigative committee in connection with a criminal investigation into the organization of riots in the country. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on arts he today. live in moscow pulling at the u.s. economy back from the brink of retaliating for the killing of american diplomats start all took center stage during the second presidential debate between mitt romney and of course barack obama they faced off to trade fresh blows with less than a month left before the crucial vote for the white house. now with more from washington . by all accounts this debate was thought to be crucial for the president and his chances of getting reelected especially after the first debate two weeks ago when the president looked less and less competitive then governor romney this time around he was on the offensive which got the media and his supporters very excited a

if nearly 3,000 iranians had been murdered in the way that americans were on 9/11, in tehran, how would you have reacted to the country that you believed had done that? >> translator: so you are saying that the country of afghanistan was at fault? was responsible? so you're seeing the responsible party as a whole nation? >> i think it is inarguable that al qaeda and osama bin laden's men who worked for him were training in afghanistan. so afghanistan was certainly knowingly harboring terrorists who were training to commit atrocities. >> translator: i believe that you can, under no circumstances, justify the condemnation and the attack upon a country in order to reach a single terrorist group, and i do believe that no matter how long you and i or other people speak, this is unexplainable. allow me to ask you. do you believe that the various administrations of the united states were successful in eradicating terrorism? they haven't been. has the problem been resolved or has it gotten worse? >> well, it's hard to say. >> translator: the approach was wrong. >> my answer would be, clearly, i