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Rattansi: Foreign-fuelled revolt & media games spill Syria blood
Syria has called an emergency meeting of the Arab League, in an attempt to reverse the decision which saw it suspended from the organisation. The freeze on the country's membership and accompanying sanctions received wide support from the EU and the US An overwhelming majority of member states voted for the measure to urge president Bashar al-Assad to stop 8-months of violence. But it also triggered new protests and attacks on the Turkish, French and Saudi Arabian embassies in Damascus. Dozens more people were reportedly killed across the country on Sunday in the latest wave of crackdowns on anti-government protests. Author and journalist Afshin Rattansi thinks the conflict in Syria's being fueled from abroad, and could drag on for some time. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com
Afshin Rattansi : The Dollar and Roach Motels
..hot on the heels of economic statistics around the world indicating an international financial catastrophe.
Afshin Rattansi :Goldman Sachs & Toilet Paper
Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Max Keiser in Paris about the end of Wall Street, dollars and toilet paper - and Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs no longer being investment banks.
Afshin Rattansi : Europe in Recession
* Japan in deeper recession than previously thought * Tokyo considers $216 bln stimulus -- newspaper * Canada declares recession, cuts benchmark rates * Progress made on US auto rescue plan * Dow , S&P 500 fall in early trade By Kevin Liffey and Daniel Trotta LONDON/NEW YORK, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Japan sank further into recession in the third quarter, new European economic indicators showed that the downturn there is deepening and Canada declared itself in recession on Tuesday. In the United States, negative retails sales data and tepid home-sales figures failed to animate Wall Street, which traded down after a two-day rally had contributed to sentiment that the stock market could have hit a cyclical bottom. "There's hesitation that indeed the worst is over," said Andre Bakhos, president of Princeton Financial Group in Princeton, New Jersey. "Only time will tell. Caution is still warranted."
Afshin Rattansi talks to Michael Hudson about Nationalizing
Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Michael Hudson (former Wall Street economist specializing in the balance of payments and real estate at the Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.), Arthur Anderson, and later at the Hudson Institute (no relation). In 1990 he helped established the worlds first sovereign debt fund for Scudder Stevens & Clark. Dr. Hudson was Dennis Kucinichs Chief Economic Advisor in the recent Democratic primary presidential campaign, and has advised the US, Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments, as well as the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). A Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), he is the author of many books, including Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (new ed., Pluto Press, 2002))
Afshin Rattansi - Showreel Spring 2008
Afshin Rattansi has for more than a decade and a half worked in flagship broadcast and print media around the world. In the UK, he has worked at The Guardian, the New Statesman, for every regional and national outlet of the BBC and a host of award-winning Channel 4 production companies. In 1999, he helped to launch the developing world's first global financial news and current affairs channel (see articles). He has reported on events across Africa and Latin America as well as the Middle East and Europe for fifteen years, covering the fall of the Berlin Wall, the resignation of Margaret Thatcher and working on the first UK primetime documentary to analyse human rights abuses by the then US and British-backed regime of Saddam Hussein. Before working for the BBC's Business and Economics Units, he analysed geopolitical financial and environmental risk for Lloyd's of London after world markets crashed. Portfolio allocation was of the order of £1 bn. Returning from the Middle East in 2002, he went on to produce for the BBC's top-rated radio show, the Today programme, on Radio 4. The programme was at the centre of the furore over claims that the Iraqi government possessed weapons of mass destruction. He left the programme amidst the events that led to the widely ridiculed Hutton Inquiry into the death of government scientist and Today programme source, David Kelly. He was one of the first english-language employees of Al Jazeera and worked at the Arab satellite station's ...
Afshin Rattansi, Bernard Madoff & USwar
Afshin Rattansi talks to Max Keiser about the symbolism in the Bernard Madoff case before talking to a senior official of the Pakistani ISI and friend of Osama bin Laden about US attempts to foment a nuclear war between Pakistan and India.
Afshin Rattansi : Global Rate Cuts
Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Max Keiser in Paris about the global coordination of rate cuts failing to stem a collapse in equities
Afshin Rattansi and Gore Vidal on Iran & Power June 2008
Gore Vidal speaks to Afshin Rattansi about another of President Bush's attorney-generals facing a subpoena, the White House becoming Persepolis and military action against Iran. Afshin Rattansi: We hear that Michael Mukasey is going to become the latest of the President's Attorney-Generals to be subpoenaed, this time over his conversations with Bush and Cheney -- does this show that Congress is serious about calling the executive to account? Gore Vidal: No, Congress has never been more cowardly, nor more corrupt. All Bush has do is to make sure certain amounts of money go in the direction of certain important congressmen and that's end of any serious investigation. After all, one of the bravest members of Congress is Denis Kucinich who brought the article of impeachment in to the well of the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives must then try the president, and then after that it goes to the Senate for judgment. However, none of these things will happen because there's nobody there except for Mr. Kucinich who has the courage to take on a sitting president who is kind of a Mafioso. Afshin Rattansi: How can it just be one person among so many hundreds of Congressmen who wants the impeachment of George W. Bush in these circumstances? Gore Vidal: Well it's because we no longer have a country. We don't have a republic any more. During the last 7 or 8 years of the Bush regime, they've got rid of the Bill of Rights, they've got rid of habeas corpus. They have ...
Afshin Rattansi :Bank Nationalization
Wholesale US banking industry nationalization, Opium Wars, China and South Korea and Treasury Bonds and the collapse of Dubai and GCC countries
Afshin Rattansi talks to Michael Hudson:Paulson&Bernanke
Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Michael Hudson, former Wall Street economist specializing in the balance of payments and real estate at the Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.). He was at Arthur Anderson, and later at the Hudson Institute (no relation). In 1990 he helped established the worlds first sovereign debt fund for Scudder Stevens & Clark. Dr. Hudson was Dennis Kucinichs Chief Economic Advisor in the recent Democratic primary presidential campaign, and has advised the US, Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments, as well as the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). A Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), he is the author of many books, including Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (new ed., Pluto Press, 2002)
Afshin Rattansi interviews Noam Chomsky June 2008
Will there be a US military attack on Iran? How do you characterize the Iraq Security Pact? Why is Afghanistan considered a "good war"?
Rattansi & Ridley #19 4of4
3of4 - #19 - Afshin Rattansi and Yvonne Ridley talk to: Tino Sehgal in New York talks about his latest work showing at the Guggenheim Museum of Art about the themes of progress and materialism. Tino Sehgal (born 1976) is a British-German artist based in Berlin. His works, which he calls "constructed situations",[1] involve one or more people carrying out instructions conceived by the artist. His father, a member of the Sehgal family, "had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM"[2]; his mother was "a German native and homemaker."[3] Sehgal was born in London but grew up mostly in Düsseldorf and Paris; he studied political economy and dance in Berlin and Essen and began to work as an artist in 2000. He has exhibited at a number of important venues including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Tate gallery, Manifesta 4 and the 2005 Venice Biennale. In 2006 he was shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize.[4] In 2008 the Nicola Trussardi Foundation has presented Tino Sehgals first major exhibition in Italy in the setting of Villa Reale, one of the most spectacular historic buildings in Milan. On the sale of his work, the artist stipulates that there is no written set of instructions, no written receipt, no catalogue and no pictures.[1] This means that his work is not documented in any way. (This mandate, however, has proven to be largely symbolic, and unenforceable.)[5] [edit]Works For This is New a museum attendant says out ...
Afshin Rattansi, Alex Alonso: Poverty in 26 cities & Gangs
Afshin Rattansi taklks to Streetgangs.com's Alex Alonson about a new report warning of poverty across the US WASHINGTON (AFP) — Homelessness and hunger increased in an overwhelming majority of 25 US cities in the past year, driven by the foreclosure crisis and rising unemployment, a survey showed Friday. Out of 25 cities across the United States surveyed by the US Conference of Mayors, 83 percent said homelessness in general had increased over the past year while 16 cities, or nearly two-thirds of those polled, cited a rise in the number of families who had been forced out of their homes. In Louisville, Kentucky, the number of homeless families increased 58 percent in 2008 to 931 families from 591 people in 2007, with the rise blamed on soaring food, health care, transportation and energy prices. Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island blamed the rise in family homelessness on evictions by landlords whose rental properties were foreclosed.
OBAMA:Afshin Rattansi talks to Paul Craig Roberts about $825 Billion 1
Former Assistant Secretary to the US Treasury outlines why he is sceptical about Obama's economic plans. 1
Rattansi & Ridley - Episode One 2032 GMT, Sky 515, 31 October 2009 (1of3)
(1of3) all rights reserved RATTANSI & RIDLEY - A NEW CURRENT AFFAIRS TELEVISION SERIES ON SKY CHANNEL 515 (LONDON, 28 OCTOBER 2009) Last time the Iranians commandeered a British ship was two and a half years ago in the Persian Gulf. Starting this Saturday 31 October, 2009 the Iranians will take over another Royal Navy ship in the heart of London. HMS President, the World War One veteran is moored on the River Thames on Victoria Embankment, and will broadcast each week at 2034 GMT on Sky channel 515 the Rattansi & Ridley show. Billed as the show which rocks the boat, R&R is the only TV programme in the world presented on board a floating TV studio. HMS President was originally commissioned as a 'Q' Ship (or Mystery Ship). Disguised as a merchant ship, she was designed to attract German U-Boats that she would then try and destroy with her arsenal of hidden weapons. HMS President is listed on the National Register of Historic Vessels. "It seems HMS President is going to be making history once again," commented Afshin Rattansi. "This time, however, we want to captivate our viewers although I've no doubt R&R will still ruffle a few feathers," added co-host Yvonne Ridley Veteran journalists, Rattansi and Ridley of First Witness Productions in London have gained their first Sky platform commission on Irans international 24-hour broadcaster, Press TV. Executive producing as well as presenting the show are the former Sunday Times Insight correspondent, Ridley, and former BBC Today ...
Afshin Rattansi : Obama's Trillion Dollar Plan
and Hugh Miles, author of books on Al Jazeera and Egypt and Nick Dearden from the Jubilee 2000 campaign to end all unfair debt repayments by the developing world. Whole half hour program at www.presstv.com
Press TV/Rattansi and Ridley /An interview with Terry Hold Brooks/11/ 07/ 2009
An interview with Terry Hold Brooks, Former Guantanamo guard who converted to Islam
Obama's Billions: Afshin Rattansi & Fmr. Asst. Treasury Sec. on "Morons"
How Obama's Stimulus package will lead to nuclear war. Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. A former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During 1981-82 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury Departments Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. In 1987 the French government recognized him as "the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism" and inducted him into the Legion of Honor.
GAZA DAY 17: Afshin Rattansi & Christopher Gunness, UNRWA
Afshin Rattansi talks to Christopher Gunness from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Rattansi & Ridley #24 3of4 Easter 2010
Rattansi & Ridley #24 3of4 Brought To Book On drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Iraq Mark Kassner from Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Colonel John Fitzgerald, Senior Intelligence Policy Officer from NATO Headquarters Lt.-Col. Chris Gough from the 432nd Expeditionary Wing of the US Air Force George DeCock from L-3 Communications Asim Qureshi, Author, "Rules of the Game" on torture and rendition in the war on terror Imran Khan, former cricketer and Tehreek e Insaf leader Prof. Hans Kochler from the University of Innsbruck on the illegality of the ICC, Sudan and Lockerbie and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee comes to Washington DC
Ridley & Rattansi-Dealing with Those Entrapped-26-10-2010-(Part2)
At the beginning of the program, the trapped Chilean miners' case is compared with the Belgian man imprisoned in Iraq for seven years. It then shifts to Abu Gamal's struggle to prove his innocence amid US judiciary red tape, which is a stumbling block to Gamal's attempts. People living in a tunnel in Manhattan come next at the program. Yvonne & Afshin's guests for today's show are Colin Harding, Luk Vervaet, Teun Voeten, Cecil Gutzmore and Hamza Tzortzis. Enjoy the show.
1Afshin Rattansi talks to Noam Chomsky : the eve of his 80th
PART ONE..just after George W Bush delivers his final speech on the Middle East as President.
Afshin Rattansi : Laundering $700 Bn
...as Obama, McCain and Bush negotiate terms. Max says there will be NO election in November.
Afshin Rattansi speaks to Jon Lee Anderson-biographer of Che
Afshin Rattansi and Jon Lee Anderson from the New Yorker talk about developments in Latin America and growing ties between Iran and the continent. Jon Lee Anderson wrote one of the definitive biographies of Che Guevara.
Leverett/ Shihab Rattansi, Jazeera: What did the US know about the Saudi incursion into bahrain?
Former White House and NSC official Hillary Mann-Leverett asks what Robert Gates and the Obama admin knew about the saudi incursion into bahrain in an interview with Shihab Rattansi on Al Jazeera English. March 14th, 2011.
David Rovics sings "Jenin" on Rattansi & Ridley
Coming soon to Rattansi & Ridley - David Rovics singing on HMS President.. Broadcast at 1932 GMT on 11 May 2010 on Sky Channel 515. To see David live on his world tour, see www.davidrovics.com. To read more about David, see http .
Where is Iraq's Money? Afshin Rattansi and MP, Unadem Kenna
Unadem Kenna, leader of the mainly Christian Al-Rafidain movement in Iraq talks about security, oil money and the United Nations hitherto refusal to lift sanctions on Iraq. $70 Billion is overseas as Iraq continues to pump oil.
Afshin Rattansi : A recession in Japan
Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Max Keiser in Paris about a global recession. TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy contracted in the second quarter at its sharpest rate in seven years, adding to worries that the world's No.2 economy has slipped into a recession as global growth shows more signs of losing steam. Consumers and companies cut spending as they struggle with steep energy and raw material costs, while spreading damage from the US slowdown hurt exports to emerging nations -- possibly marking the end of Japan's longest expansion since World War Two.
Afshin Rattansi: Iran(again), Saudi & the BBC's Jeremy Bowen
rest of programme is at www.presstv.com Dilip Hiro Playwright and Author Prof. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh Tarbiat Moadarres University Prof. John Tirman Massachusetts Institute of Technology Intro On tonights show we look at the British governments strategy of trying to retain an independent nuclear energy programme even as it tries to prevent countries like Iran having one. Also the curious case of US-ally, Saudi Arabia, tying itself in knots over Pakistan and the BBC hitting out against its own senior journalists for their coverage of the Middle East You can text or email me at any time. The text number from anywhere in the world is + 44 78 00 00 80 86 . The email address is bth@presstv.co.uk.
Afshin Rattansi: G20 and the Dollar
Afshin Rattansi talks to Max Keiser about the dollar as world leaders lean to it being removed as the world's reserve currency. And the implications for social unrest in the US and signs of failures to come in an Obama administration
GAZA:Afshin Rattansi & Walid Shoebat, Ashraf Shannon, Norman Finkelstein 3
Gaza Afshin Rattansi and an extended interview with Norman Finkelstein. 3
Press TV -Rattansi and Ridley -Hajo Meyer- 01-30-2010
An exclusive interview with Hajo Meyer, Holocaust survivor
Rattansi and Ridley #21 2of4
Transatlantic 2of4 PAUL LARUDEE, Activist CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, US Green Party Presidential Candidate 2008 DR ANNE MARIA BRENNAN, on 1001 Muslim Inventions at the London Science Museum FASHION WEEK WITH DONNY SLACK, Ethical Fashion
Afshin Rattansi & Multinational Monitor: Worst Corporations
Afshin Rattansi talks to Robert Weissman, editor of Multinational Monitor about their latest Worst Corporation report for 2008. The Multinational Monitor releases an annual list of the 10 worst corporations of the year and in this year's report there are some familiar faces: AIG, Cargill, Chevron, Constellation Energy, Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Dole, General Electric (GE), Imperial Sugar, Phillip Morris International, and Roche. There are common themes that tie together many of the unethical and harmful activities these corporations have committed, and in many cases, gotten away with. Cheif among these themes is improper political influence.
Rattansi & Ridley - Episode 83
Afshin and Yvonne talk to Mick Napier of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign about a mass fly-in to Tel Aviv airport; Martin Shipton:, journalist & author on Wales and why it doesn't vote nationalist; Massoud Shadjareh from the Islamic Human Rights Commission on the blind Sheikh;Paul Stevens of Chatham House on the Arab Spring and what it means for global energy and finance and professor Anatol Lieven, author of "Pakistan: A Hard Country" on the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
Afshin Rattansi on Russia Today - Iran's Nuclear Program 2009
Afshin Rattansi interviewed on Russia Today about Iran's nuclear program and the export and import of enriched uranium enrichment. October 2009 - NY Times. GENEVA — Iran agreed on Thursday in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium outside Iran to be turned into fuel for a small reactor that produces medical isotopes, senior American and other Western officials said.
Obama's CIA Man: Afshin Rattansi and ex-CIA man, Ray McGovern
Afshin talks to former CIA official Ray McGovern about the consequences for the new head of the CIA and for the United States after Leon Panetta condemns torture, extraordinary rendition and those that were involved in it all. Also, will Cheney go to jail and what about David Milliband who denies that the UK secret services do not engage in torture despite evidence to the contrary for decades of British illegal activity, from Ireland to Gibraltar? Hours later and after this interview, Leon Panetta retracted statements about extraordinary rendition or kidnapping and said that the Obama administration will still engage in the practice.
Rattansi & Ridley #12 4of4
Episode 12 4of4 Afshin Rattansi and Yvonne Ridley talk to Tony Blair's Chief Adviser, a comedian fired for interrupting the Queen, drummers in a campaign involving Radiohead and Pink Floyd, the cousin of a man executed in China, plans for genocide day, the Egyptian definition of a bad European and Benjamin Zephaniah writing to the "Black House" in his performance, "White Comedy". Matthew Taylor, former Chief Advisor to Tony Blair; Tom Binns, Comedian; Somesh De Swardt, Drumjam; Richard Enion, Basstone Slap; Massoud Shadjareh, Islamic Human Rights Commission; Ridwan Shaikh cousin of Akmal Shaikh; Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet.
Afshin Rattansi on Fox News about Lebanon
Novelist and Journalist, Afshin Rattansi (author of The Dream of the Decade), appears on Fox News to talk about how the rest of the world sees the Bush administration's handling of the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon.
Rattansi & Ridley #19 3of4
3of4 - #19 - Afshin Rattansi and Yvonne Ridley talk to: Seamus Murphy, photographer whose new book, A Darkness Visible, charts the recent history of Afghanistan using the power of photography Ruhul Tarafder of the IF campaign, which helped to organise a reading record in the East End of London. London reads straight into the record books on World Book Day General News Friday, 05 March 2010 08:35 On Thursday 4th March 2010, a spectacular new world record was set in London. 3234 participants exceeded all expectations by breaking the Guinness World Record for the most children reading with an adult. The event, which took place at the London Muslim Centre in East London, was organised by IF charity, in partnership with Islamic Forum Europe, Muslim Aid, London Muslim Centre and Tower Hamlets Council. Politicians and celebrities joined thousands of people, who came from across London to take part in the world record bid including journalist Victoria Brittain, BBC London presenter Asad Ahmed and Hedy Epstein, an 85 year old holocaust survivor. Former stars from the BBC hit show The Apprentice were also present including, Ghazal Asif, Tre Azzam, Majid Nagra and Syed Ahmed. Baroness Pola Uddin, George Galloway MP, and the Leader of Tower Hamlets Council, Lutfur Rahman, also took part. In a statement from the IF Team We would like to thank all those who took part and supported the BIG Read. This record really belongs to the whole community, our partners, media partners, trustees ...
Rattansi & Ridley #24 1of4 Easter 2010
Rattansi & Ridley #24 1of4 Brought To Book On drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Iraq Mark Kassner from Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Colonel John Fitzgerald, Senior Intelligence Policy Officer from NATO Headquarters Lt.-Col. Chris Gough from the 432nd Expeditionary Wing of the US Air Force George DeCock from L-3 Communications Asim Qureshi, Author, "Rules of the Game" on torture and rendition in the war on terror Imran Khan, former cricketer and Tehreek e Insaf leader Prof. Hans Kochler from the University of Innsbruck on the illegality of the ICC, Sudan and Lockerbie and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee comes to Washington DC
Rattansi & Ridley #40 1of4 Identity
R&R#40 1of4 -Afshin Rattansi & Yvonne Ridley speak to The Guardian's man in New York, Gary Younge about his new book "Who are we and should it matter in the 21st century?"; Professor Gilbert Achcar of the London Middle East Institute at the School of African and Oriental Studies on Arabs and the Holocaust; Tristram Stuart on Waste and Uncovering the Global Food Scandal;Dr. Christopher Davidson of Durham University on geopolitics, the Persian Gulf and his new book on Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates..and Ken O'Keefe, survivor of the Mavi Marmara and former US Marine.
Afshin Rattansi and Daniel Estulin on Bilderberg Conspiracy 2009 1of3
Afshin Rattansi talks to Daniel Estulin, Author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group and Suzanne Moore of the Mail on Sunday and Asif Durrani, Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan to London. 1of3 www.presstv.com Well, a decade and a half ago to the day, perhaps a million people were dying in the Rwanda genocide. Very little in the headlines, back then. Today, page 16 of a British newspaper quotes the UN comparing nuclear-armed Pakistan TO Rwanda. Here in Britain, for the first time in more than 3-centuries, a peculiarly important official in parliament, or self-styled mother of ALL parliaments, has been forced to resign over suspected corruption. And corruption is the charge against the secretive Bilderberg Group. Theyve just had their 2009 meeting. Not only President Obamas Treasury Secretary but his special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as Presidents of the World Bank, the European Central Bank and the European Commission were all invited. Why was Tim Geithners diary mysteriously empty amid the global economic crisis? What were those who turned up discussing and why was it all in secret? Why did it fall between the headlines?
Afshin Rattansi talks to Joshua Frank about Obama's Cabinet
No change at all? Sen. Hillary Clinton, New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner and former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson have all accepted posts in President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet, according to media reports. Clinton accepted the position of secretary of state, the New York Times reported. Richardson is in line to become Commerce secretary and Geithner was picked to be Treasury secretary, NBC News reported.
Afshin Rattansi and Raed Jarrar on the Iraq vote
The Iraqi parliament votes to put SOFA to a referendum but to let US troops stay for months more. Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Raed Jarrar (he is a political analyst based in Washington, DC. Originally from Baghdad, Jarrar moved to the US in 2005. He is currently the Iraq consultant for the American Friends Service Committee.)
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