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So we want to ask the question, what now when we leave? the author of "tehran rising: irans challenge to the united states." everyone talks about this new vacuum -- thats where the discussion is headed now that the president made the announcement about the withdrawal of the troops from iraq. is there a new power vacuum, or is that power vacuum already filled right now? >> well, theres certainly a power vacuum thats beginning to emerge, and i think thats what spurred secretary of statement clinto...

Police now using tear gas and batons on the demonstrators, the opposition says dozens were arrested, but tehran denies that the rallies have even taken place at all. the protests against the regime urged by two of the countrys opposition leaders who have not been seen in public in more than a week. now, they have been moved from house arrest to full-time detention. lets talk about it with elan berman, vice president of the american foreign policy council and author of "tehran rising". what do we...

Factors including hu jintaos limited time in office and the in scrutinyability of the chinese and how seriously they wish to pursue market reform, martha. martha: interesting to watch, james, thank you very much we know you will be in the front seat for all of that and we will be watching it throughout the day. bill: the u.s. and israel might have delivered a crushing blow to irans nuclear program without laying a hand on it, a cyber worm, the virus thought to have devastated the nuclear plants ...

Attention of leaders in tehran and theyve now postponed this barbaric punishment, at least for the time being, at least that is what they are reporting, the vice president of the american foreign policy council and also author of tehran rising, irans challenge to the united states, welcome, good to have you here. >> good to be here. martha: why have they made the decision to postpone the barbaric treatment which theyve carried out for hundreds of years. >> thats right. first of all, it is import...

Foreign policy council, also the author of the book "tehran rising: irans challenge to the united states." good to see you. if this wasnt a wake-up call, what was it? >> well, i think secretary gates comments were exactly right. it was to contribute to the orderly and timely decision-making process which suggests that the decision-making process so far really hasnt been orderly or timely at all. and, in fact, over the last year and a quarter the obama administration has pursued what it calls eng...

Summit. it follows last weeks signing with russia. the president says he wants to reduce nuclear arsenal and not use nukes against countries who do not have them. ,. lets get to the author of tehran rising. good to see you. lets talk about the thrust of what the president is trying to do today. we all focus as much these days on the fact that there are loose nukes out there. talk about the importance of this and what we should know about it. >> no, i think this is a huge issue. its, frankly, not...