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Inside iran any more than it could inside egypt. >> thats the president talking there about egypt and iran, so what are the chances of change in iran? is there anything the obama administration can do to help? joining me, the director of the iran program at the century foundation and national security network and also here, the founder and president of the national iranian-american council. let me start first with what we heard from reza and what we saw in iran today. members of the parliament, ...

Beat people and arrest people. and, you know, my hope and expectation is that were going to continue to see the people of iran have the courage to be able to express their yearning for greater freedoms and a more representative government. understanding that america cannot ultimately dictate what happens inside of iran any more than it could inside egypt. ultimately, these are sovereign countries that are going to have to make their own decisions. what we can do is lend moral support to those wh...

Evolution. >> inside egypt, what is the likelihood in your view of a more radical, a more islamist government emerging? you heard people talk about if mubarak steps aside, you know, muslim brotherhood will seize power s that possible? >> of course its brotherhood will seize power. is that possible? >> is it possible? its possible. but i wouldnt say that its a danger. when you go into a situation like this, the trend line is for the center of the political discussion to move in a more radical dir...

Sort of praising mubarak and expressing appreciation to hosni mubarak, but on the other hand also expressing appreciation to those martyrs as theyre commonly called in arabic, those people who died in that struggle so its very interesting how in terms of public relations what the military is doing on this important day. >> you know, its also fascinating, especially to those of us who watched egyptian state media over the years earlier today even before the official announcement from the vice pre...

Born in the ole regime and it was the people that would take over which as you see -- the people, just a little bit of them, so now finally we are free from this bad regime, has been taken over, the power of the egyptians and now were going to see egypt within the next five years be strongest in the middle east. >> reporter: what happens next? what happens tomorrow? >> what happens, everybody will cool down. everybody will go home and start working. there will be hope. before there was no hope b...

President of the united states at the white house. well get his reaction to all of this history. back to you for the time being. >> all right. weve talked a lot about the power of social media in all of this and the massive protest movement that forced the egyptian president hosni mubarak to step down. well, this facebook page in memory of a young egyptian businessman killed by police sparked thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets on january 25th. im talking about a facebook page, if ...

Their american equivalent but this is the egyptian armed forces coming through for thorren people with no help whatsoever basically realizing it was a case of egypt on one side and hosni mubarak on the other side and they chose the right side. they did the right thing. and hosni mubarak was trying to dig in his heels, it showed how out of touch he was with what was happening in the country because of touch he was with what was happening in the country. the more stubborn he became, the more peopl...

>> reporter: thank you, dina. sir, come forward, please. your thoughts today right now? >> yes. i think that we have changed the history of not only that of egypt but all over the world. many courses will be changed and even the egyptian people will change. now strongly in the political life in egypt and we will rebuild egypt. i repeat, we will rebuild egypt. >> reporter: what is the most important thing for egypt moving forward after today? >> okay, from now on, we will concentrate on building ...

Their country. egypt now has a really precious moment of opportunity to have a government that can bring the country together and as a friend of egypt and the egyptian people, we stand ready to help in any way that we can. we believe it must be a government that starts to put in place the building blocks of a truly open, free and democratic society. and, of course, what has happened today should only be the first step. those who now run egypt have a duty to reflect the wishes of the egyptian peo...

>> you can see these live pictures from tahrir square, those flames there are flares. people are celebrating, theyre dancing, theyre singing on the streets. its just after 9:00 p.m. there. theyre only beginning to taste freedom right now, real freedom. theyre not worried about secret police. theyre not worried about security services. theyre going about, just thrilled that the egyptian president, now the former egyptian president, hosni mubarak is gone. were not exactly sure where he is. he migh...