they spent a lot of money and they used all their diplomatic influence to try to prevent this last round of sanctions because they knew that the measures in this resolution would cripple substantially their ability to pursue their nuclear program. they failed in that regard and now we re hearing the custom marry bluster which we all are accustomed that comes out when they re feeling threatened. chris: the white house and you have said that this policy is working to isolate iran. let s take a look at the record. just in the past year, iranian president ahmadinejab has been welcomed in kabul, istanbul, copenhagen, caracas, brasilia, la as, uganda. he s in china this weekend. and in the security council vote on sanctions for the first time the u.s. failed to get unanimous support. turkey and that s actually not true. chris: if i may finish.
ahmadinejab would appear to have a death grip on the populous. if they dare to dissent, they are thrown behind bars and they are tortured and some of them are murdered. is it your sense and i don t know if you re able to keep in touch with many people at all but is it your sense that they are now so repressed and disillusioned that regime change is not in the near future? well, i think many iranians do want regime change. many iranians also want gradual change within the framework of the islamic republic and it s hard to say the percentages cause there aren t public reliable polls. right now in the short-term, it does seem like the regime has a pretty tight grip on power because of the methods they ve been using, imprisonment and beating up people in the streets and scenes of people getting shot in the streets and killed. so in the short run, these methods of suppression have succeeded, silencing people, but
it was originally reported as a 7.7. but it s been downgraded to 7.5, which is still significant. sea level readings now indicate no tsunami occurred, so the watch is canceled. all right. it s been one year since the disputed reelection of iranian president ahmadinejab and the unrest that led to the deaths of a number of protesters. one of those deaths became a symbol of the post election battles. netta. now the exclusive interview with her fiance who has strong opinions on president obama s policy towards iran. president obama has repeated his message that he s ready to negotiate directly with the iranian leadership. how can you negotiate with the dictatorship? that s not possible. plus the u.s. versus england at the world cup in south after contaminate we ll give you some of the highlights. we ve been awaiting the verdict.
i m not saying we should stay o it, we should wean ourselves of of it. particularly for national security reasons, you do not want to be captive to middle eastern oil where you have cray people blowing themselves up. so we ve got to do something. jonathan, i don t interrupt you. why is it that you always interrupt me? i love you. you know that. go ahead. say what you re going to say. that whole notion, wayne, that if we stop buying gas from the middle east for some reaso, ahmadinejab is going to be eating crumbpets with us is why we need to cap emissions. i don t accept that premise. i don t accept the flawed premise we need to limit emissions. the president needs what if it s let get foreign oil from countries that despise us. it s a national security issue. i love you with all my heart, but you work if home and your
number of illnesses and injuries there. iran president ahmadinejab is at it again. calling the september 11 attacks a, quote, big lie. he says the devastating attack was staged and he used it as an excuse to invade afghanistan and iraq. in a few hours, millions of iraqis will be heading to the polls. this is the second election since the fall of saddam hussein and some are saying it s a major test of democracy in that country and it s going to be a real big test for iraqi security forces because a powerful car bomb killed at least three people today and an al-qaeda front group is threatening even more violence tomorrow. security is weighing on the minds of both voters and candidates. malini wilkes has the story. forces backed by the u.s. military has been preparing for the election for weeks. baghdad is under a 24 hour curfew. despite the violence in the