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Are very much a western ally. >> chris: your thoughts. >> it is an important distinction to be made between totalitarian and authyou autho regimes and you can have iranian influence at play and it takes us to the larger, geopolitical struggles in the middle east. we have the administration, everyone wants to support the green movement inside iran and how do you do that and support that without putting people in an untenable position, and a crack down, would be violent and would kill a large number of people as we have seen in libya. violence will not suppress this up risings, because i think a...

Carl cameron on the hill. >> reporter: you bet. martha: now, back to the dramatic up risings unfolding across the middle east. riot police clashing with protesters as we see demonstrations now in yemen, algeria, bahrain, in jordan and, most recently, the now deadly violence that is unfolding on the streets of tehran in iran, let's go to leland vittert standing by live in cairo. leland? >> reporter: martha, this is the prophet mohammed's birthday, a holiday here in egypt and while things are relatively calm, here, around the rest of the world, around the rest of the middle east, it is a very di...

Than a week after saying she would like to be ignored by the media, sarah palin, the most recent vice presidential candidate who will never be president sat down with pat robberson's network. she slammed the handling of the crisis in egypt. here's what she said. >> not real enthused about what it is that is being done on a national level in regards to understanding all the situation there in egypt. in these areas that are so volatile right now and because it's not just egypt, but the other countries where we see up risings, we know now more than ever we need strength and sound mind there in th...

Batman and now this. we'll see. and tomorrow will mark one week since egypt convulsed into crisis. protesters are calling for a million people to hit the streets in cairo and alexander on tuesday. now, up risings in three other countries actually se the stage for egypt's revolt. starting with tunisa where a grad student sets himself on fi fire. his death sparks unprecedented fury and protests against the government, forcing the long time president to flee. in algeria, riots break out over rising food prices and a housing crisis. in yemen, students take to the streets.

Idea that they will be target and they will be taking this seriously because as far as the saudis are concerned, the mortal threats is iran. much of what they are putting into foreign policy is trying to prevent iran from establishing more bases or more operations inside the iranian peninsula and particularly the case in bahrain. there is a lot of tension between the iranians and the saudis and a few days ago, there was what was a riot that took place in a town in eastern saudi arabia. the saudis claimed on a foreign government. suggesting that it was sparking these up risings in shiite areas....