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So they can get back to the negotiating table. i think it will be interesting when we look four years down the road whats changed but i think the obama administration and particularly secretary kerry wanted to lay out whats possible in terms of salvaging the whole idea of a two-state solution, an israeli state and an israeli jewish state. >> i had one israeli official tell me yesterday, robin, that the abstention on friday was the knife in the back and kerrys speech yesterday was an unnecessary ...

Something new on this old enemy. >> today i want to extend my very best wishes to all who are celebrating nowruz around the world. >> nowruz is the prussian new year. >> for nearly three decades, relations between our nations have been strained. but at this holiday, we are reminded of the common humanity that binds us together. >> veteran middle east reporter robin wright was in iran when obamas message was delivered. >> it was electrifying the impact it had on people who believed for the first ...

Are willing to unclench your fist. >> iran in 2009 was a nation with a very tightly clenched fist. >> this is a country that had been hostile towards us and we had been hostile towards for decades. >> but after just two months in office, obama decided to try something new on this old enemy. >> today i want to extend my very best wishes to all who are celebrating nowruz around the world. >> nowruz is the prussian new year. >> for nearly three decades, relations between our nations have been strai...

Fist. >> iran in 2009 was a nation with a very tightly clenched fist. >> this is a country this had been hostile towards us and weve been hostile towards for decades. >> but after just two months in office, obama decided to try something new on this old enemy. >> today i want to extend my best wishes who all who are celebrating naruz around the world. >> thats the persian new year. >> for three decades relations have been strained but at this holiday we are reminded of the common humanity that b...

Should just leave this all to president assad in syria, let him consolidate power. let hip retake large parts of syria but of course, assad is a very close ally of issue and in effect, you would be strengthening iran by giving it its main regional ally, a huge boost. so is that a good idea? >> no, i think robin is right about whats happening in the home of the caliphate in sishia and iraq and that part of the world. but isis operates in some 30, 40 countries in one way or another. and one has to...

For the new yorker which recently publish add important piece by her on isis. here in new york it, richard haass is the president of the council on foreign relations and the author of a forth coming book "a world in disarray, american foreign policy and the crisis of the old order." and ian bremer is the president a "time" magazine columnist. robin, let me start with you. if rex tillerson is to be the secretary of state, we now have a complete team in place with mike flynn,ings with mattis. what...

Immigration plus strong assimilation lead to no major backlash. eventually, western societies will be able to be adjust to this new feature of globalization. look at young people in europe and america, the vast majority of them deeply value the benefits of diversity and they seek to live in an open connected world. thats the future. we just have to ensure we dont wreck the world before we get there. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column in week and lets get started....

Order to defeat another bad guy. its happened throughout american and world history. thats a tactic. the key thing over the long run, the strategy i think has to be to weaken iran. its got a lot worse in store for us than i think it has shown so far and i think its the worlds leading terrorist state. >> robin, what do you make of the kind of the anti-iran you know, if you look at james mattis, hes pretty anti-iran. if you look at mike flynn, is there -- you know, it feels like theres a very stro...

And theres dangers of chaos but that the whole battle against isis is largely winning. what i want to ask you is this. if this is in fact happening and if the united states is confronting a new situation in syria and in iraq, what should its attitude be towards iran? i know youve always been very tough on iran and what im you can have by is the president-elect trump says we should just leave this all to president assad in syria, let him consolidate power. let hip retake large parts of syria bu...

And i think that its going to be for some time because its a theecratic toe talnarian set of revolutionaries and id say imperialists. they want to build an empire. >> theyve been the ones fighting isis allied with assad and against isis. the president-elect seems to like that just fine. >> these are tactical decisions. we had a tikhonoval decision in 41 whether to sign on with stalin against hitler and we did. it was good we did. sometimes you have to ally temporarily with a bad guy in order to ...