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Complete deniability. If i was the United States or the iranians i would want to keep it that way. Mark, in your presentation you mentioned that in iraq and the United States and iran are kind of tacitly in alignment supporting the central government, perceived as a broader shiite government. In syria the interests begin to diverge over the future of assad. How do you see that tension playing out over time, particularly when you have u. S. Forces in iraq where you also have iranian forces. Some inadvertent action that run up against each other how do you see these issues getting worked out ove...

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming out to our first public event of the year for the task force. Let me thank the Atlantic Council and the Plowshares Fund for the generous support. We have been going on for four years and i must say that the news keeps getting better. Some positive indications about the nuclear talks. But we are here to talk about the people to people aspects of the u. S. Iran relationship which are maybe more important in some ways than the technicalities of how many centrifuges iran is allowed to have your want more interaction between the peoples of iran and the...

Happy to learn that. X in fact i think i actually showed you some of the slides. This report makes it scathingly crystalclear what the relationship is between education and incarceration. Right . So, therefore, again, it is beyond our charge to say how we are going to do that, but i keep using the word ammunition which is not a good use not a good word to use but the information is certainly in this report that makes it clear that if you dont to go to prison or who goes to prison are the people that have the least access to those kinds of opportunities and education is a crucial one. That soci...

And helmand. As far as advocacy for the corps there. Before they had the advisers to do this. Because we were going liftoff we wanted to make sure they had some kind of advocacy. We built a cell of four or five Coalition Members and some function that we thought they needed to continue to mature in our absence and put them up in kabul in september and they were foc in october before we left. Two interpreters were up there and all these individuals had served as advisers with the corps and the police. The leadership knew them. They knew the interpreters. So they would have a means of communicat...

We are live on this Tuesday Morning at the Atlantic Council here in washington, where the french, british, and german ambassadors will talk about europes role in the iran Nuclear Negotiations. Atlantic Council Senior fellow Barbara Slavin will monitor the session. It should get underway in just a moment live on cspan. Good morning, everyone. I am the executive Vice President or i he Atlantic Council and it is my pleasure to welcome our dismissed speakers. French ambassadors gerard araud, British Ambassador sir Peter Westmacott, and german ambassador peter wittig. It is a pleasure to host all o...