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They decided to choose from the least bad option. for that reason, looking at what he can do in terms of foreign policy, he comes from the wing of the revolution, the wing of the regime he's a committed regime insider. he's committed to the ideals of the revolution. he is committed to the ideals of the revolution. but he's one of those who believes that iran needs a privilege economic expediency before revolutionary ideology and for that reason i agree with steve in that i think he's someone who, instead of pursuing a hard-line ideological policy of resistance, i think he is interested in a po...

He's the representative of those who seek reform and change within the constitution of the islamic republic of iran. >> of course you know kareem i met with a young student this one kind of really stuck with me she was just a junior english literature major in the university of tehran and she had her voting finger with a purple nail, which was of course the color of rohani, but yet he backed the violent crackdown on students in 1999. "the new york times" correspondent who was in tehran for ten years is now home recently wrote rohani is not a reformist even according to iranian standards. what ...

>> so you got france, you got the u.s., you got britain and then you got hezbollah, a group designated a terrorist organization by the u.s. also thrilled about rowhani's win. hezbollah calling rowhani a quote, a beacon of hope. yes. so all right, look, you got hezbollah and the u.s. on the same side. pigs fly sometimes and don't forget, rohani is only president because other reformers weren't allowed to run. so while he is considered a moderate now the clerics who rule iran let rowhani into the field so he sort of became the reformer by default. the whole field shifted so far to the right that...

They want? >> this is certainly the concern above all of the israeli prime minister. iran is going to continue to pursue the same intransigent nuclear policies but do so with a smiling, moderate face rather than mahmoud ahmadinejad. so it's going to be more difficult for the world to rally against iran, to coerce iran. but, you know, i think at the same time, that this is a young population which has been suffocating under tremendous political pressure, internal economic mismanagement, external economic pressure, and so the vote for rohani was, you know, i describe as the equivalent of a light...

They're all right with the ayatollah right but maybe maybe it becomes more than a light rain? >> well they definitely put in people in that race that they were comfortable with. and certainly the supreme leader is comfortable with this man rohani who has worked with for decades. but kareem is correct that there is immense pressure for change. now there's some desperation in iran now. there's been an immense -- there's been a disappearance of wealth because of the collapse of iran's currency. because of the decrease in oil revenues. there is what people describe as a kind of middle-class povert...