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anger in ecuador, thousands of indigenous protest this much on the capital government refuses to back down. ah stands taliban government is appealing for more international aid. after the worst, earthquake in 20 years, at least 1500 people have been killed and many more are injured in a remote region in the southeast. it s fed hundreds are still trapped in the rebel rescue and relief teams are struggling to reach the disasters or the magnitude 5.9 from a stroke early on wednesday in a rural mountainous area. in particular province, i 7 family members in one room, 5 in the other, and 4 in another, and 3 in another, have been killed in my family. i can t talk anymore. my heart is getting weak. that s kind of when the roof came down on me, i thought i had been shot by a gun. my body was in pain in burning. i tried to get up, but i couldn t look if he is in the eastern province of packed here. where outside the patio regional hospital and just standing there, we ve seen wor ....
vienna and we will be talking a little bit about that as we go forward. [switching captioners] we know who we are dealing with. this is a state-sponsor of terrorism. this is a country that abuses human rights. that violates the ballistic missile area. we know all of that. but we are trying to prevent iran from becoming a nuclear weapon power, because we know that is a game changer in the region. that s the objective of this agreement. and the standard that we have to use, because there is no trust in iran for us in iran the supreme leader on friday after the agreements were entered into today we will trample upon america. we don t trust iran but we have to leave emotion out of this. we have to look at the agreement, and determine whether the compliance with this agreement by the united states will put us on the path that takes it less likely or more likely that iran will become a nuclear weapon power. that s got to be the test that we use. so mr. chairman i have many ....
and a member of your caucus acknowledged that the full sentence was any time anywhere in the sense of a well defined process with a well defined end time. so i m pleased we have established that. the iaea can request access to any suspicious location with 24 hour s notice under the additional protocol. the deal was not change that baseline. the issue if there is then agreement is not reached, then when the iaea requests access this 24-day clock will will start. the and this is a new tool a finite time a new tool for resolving disputes within what we think is a short period of time. and short is defined because of our confidence in environmental sampling that we will then be able to have to implement to detect microscopic traces of nuclear materials even after attempts are made to remove the evidence of of of activities with nuclear material. and iran s history provides a god good example. in 2003 the iaea requested access. it was denied. negotiations dragged o ....
if everyone would take their seats, please, we are almost ready to start. welcome everyone. i am barbara and i direct the program at the council and i am honored that they have asked me to moderate this extremely timely panel about the iranian elections and also about president trump s visit to the middle east. before we start, i want to thank congressman jared huffman, thanks to him we have the room. also the fund and the rockefeller fund for supporting the work that we do. we ve got a great panel. we will start with a best-selling author of fabulous books about iran including the ayatollah begs to differ and the ayatollahs democracy. he has spent a lot of time going back and forth between the u.s. and iran and he certainly understands the political dynamics of the country very well. then we will have a cofounder and executive director of the international civil society action network. she has published extensively on gender, peace and security issues and also knows a ....
seats. we are almost ready to start. welcome everyone. i am barbara slavin. i am absolutely delighted that the national iranian american council has asked me to moderate this timely panel about the iranian elections. before we start, i want to think congressman jared huffman, thanks to him we have the room. the rockefeller brothers fund for supporting the work that we do. we have a great panel. hooman majd.t with he spent a lot of time going back and forth between the u.s. and ironic. he understands the political dynamic. we will have sanam naraghi-anderlini. also, knows a lot about regional dynamics. reza marashi. we will again up with a few questions from me and we will open up to you. lots and lots to talk about. let me begin by asking the panelists for their impressions of a split screen reality that we had over the last few days. we had a iranian s dancing in the streets because they elected the elected president rouhani and we had president trump giving a stern ....