we're going to be learning so i don't know that much about this subject area very familiar with so bear with my ignorance or please welcome very much to manhattan network thank you for inviting us my great good pleasure i enjoyed that night the other of the american to raney and friendship committee that's quick he's also chairman of an organization stop the war on iran campaign and if you need include that he's got a bad on him this is hands off iran which has some sort of a clue to what we might be talking about and welcome very very much a conversation i wonder if you might share as i said to you before i just you have a template i use of these conversations but could you share your own background where you were born and raised some of your education a few thousand people i was writing to seven from the top good for you so i studied for two years i studied engineering draftsmanship and  on the pipes the oil pipes that brought the oil from developing into the viewfinder the and then exported abroad and then no after a year or two i decided to continue my education it to you and i came to the united states to study physics and i did study physics for a year or so but i changed to put economics when did you word and you study here eight went to the new school for social research on fifth avenue on fourteenth street and i got my master's degree in political economy and that ink in political of economy and planning that used to be called political economy back in the nineteenth twentieth century and  politics that informs the economic their eyes by which the basis of all politics is economics thank you i think that also i think that's really basic and they get all kinds of ideological things they try to of debate but really when you come down to it it's usually always having to do with a famous man said that man has to eat fish and then when i think about politics we also had a famous american tip o'neil was in our congress i didn't use it all politics is local i always used to say all politics is economics because the economics is what really informs it to a large degree and what card your move from engineering or to man in a military jeep have you killed anyone off i said no i haven't you know me can i put my books together he said no you're not coming back i said watch my lord who walked these people they going to the depressing or they're going some other places now is they could you help because you're you're a very rainy and the event of the overthrow or you i think of i'm not mistaken united states and the cia was involved in overthrowing most of the day and i think you would say if i understand popular and is that important event in the recent history of iran in terms of the consciousness of the iranian people who have that very closely in mind and by fifty two and fifty three the fifty year contract pleased to learn very pleased to participate democratically this the british empire m d a night this they saw as a danger all right there we have a developing believe marching on the streets demanding schools our children need the schools with the truth if you give them an inch they'll demand a mosque they just cannot understand what they did before and those prophets we had another yacht to build for the people that owned it and yeah that kind of thing is that that that and them in the end that's an important mark herb in the history in the modern history of iran you know and it resonates very strongly felt that you were coming into the modern world but you're also coming out of a tremendously long rich history that sometimes the forgotten by some of the europeans and so forth you had a rich history there one way way way back and in fact we were just chatting a going on i'm sure did you have a chance to go back in those intervening years or so after all i'm going to tell you that those three days that this six with police oh yes tortured me yes they did torture you yes they made me political  origin of source of  i want to give it to them brian neal that if i say won the war those kids who gave me did lift that they've been being troubled more than i was then after i told them please to his brother or sister or a modern about politics my brother who was older than me when i attended the college i started going to college said brother do not talk politics to anyone and if you met some people talking politics rather they go and do other things the shock od him out for a quarter of a century really that's right it was to say politics because you could you could not trust your brother he might be a six at police as so when i came there must have been seething below the surface even a personal level a great he was representatives modernizing in a way that iranian world that kind of thing that was the image that we were trying oh then i came out of the united states and i saw the running water in every building i was wishing to shaw would do just same for the lawn when i drove in the south in texas and i saw this beautiful roads smooth throws that you can drive in and i was wishing i hope to show one day bins that kind of roads in it on he was not investing in infrastructure and building up the capital person who came to pick me up from the airport a friend i said are you sure you are right continent he said why i said the embassy any of that i was quiet i was quiet that's a moving simmering hatred yes i think that's representative of a lot of people of the world who are told to accept the situation the way the world is being run but realise that is not in a way that serves their demonstrate against the wall hit the ground running as i said even if i was in paris i would have done to same thing they did sixty three years earlier because sixty five they were still thing we're bringing peace and justice and everything that sort of thing and they always do say that they never they were there to avoid people yes in our aggressive attitudes just to bring progress so you got into political economy and then you studied did you get it come down in terms of understanding  and i would put my education into practice and serve the country with political economy meaning certain planning planning for the country is right you had planning we demonstrated against him and i for one point dating in people in one nine hundred seventy nine seventy eight decided to overthrow the shaw while they did it mr khomeini i think he had been in france for a while and then he came in they made a revolution and took american hostages for four hundred odd days and made a revolution and you were in support of that revolution i was your w situation the power after he came to power after he came to work out a prize to you that he came to power it was a surprise it was a it was a surprise to me because all the other stratus and classes also involved in organizing and continue teaching to the over two of the shaw and when he came to power decided controlling all the annals of power in the government it was somewhat somewhat surprising to me i was just standing sometimes i stood on the corner of this street and i saw one man young man that is behind me i cannot i cannot blame him for it yes we talked about the working class but the working class did not follow us he was not a me the me were the majority and they have always been majority all these in the majority and there seems to be a great sectarian animosity there and through hard for us to understand maybe you could help clarify what the source of the deep animosity between the shia and the sunni and i understand it has to be it's very complex why then what's the big is that like protestant catholic a year with media makes too much statistic six of the number of attacks made in the last month and i saw according to them to the media seventy percent of death tax than made against american population as a matter of fact in this school and that i attended a nobody on there was a student to my right and he needed some help with his physics and chemistry i did know and i did the mind the jewish population lived in iran for two thousand years around and there was no such an onion masi that existed in europe against the jewish population home and today the wellcome the  aim of the military there's a big movement that would go and bomb iran which i guess you're aware of some of these neo cons want to bomb iran and because of the current administration and the the atomic question of richmond of uranium and these kind of things and we probably should get to that because you know the problem is just mr omani is you're too darn interesting i could talk to you about your childhood but about twenty hours but we've got to get it up to the present yes so let's try to bring it up to present because we're talking in two thousand and six and what the date september sixth rice is something yes two thousand and so you've got the committee in lebanon we have nots rolla who is a merged in the minds of many having been able to stand up to the invincible power supposedly of the israelis lobbing three hundred weapons into high for on the last day of the incursion much of the arab world as i understand it feels that he is emerging as a hero to being able to stand up to the traditional power of israel backed by the united states with an ending military support  impetus to this and the arab ability to question the invincibility of the israeli american presence there and then now they saying that that had been a that that incursion into lebanon was seen as a way to abolish hezbollah so that it could play or the way for an attack upon syria and iran i heard and others has said that they think the an attack is going to come against iran because they have a nuclear program that the united nations is the should and they  e so this is part of the context against were to form this committee to stop the war in iran and maybe you could set me straight where i'm wrong and some of that is that that summary of the current situation as you and i sit here and nuclear technology and rosie and it was it was put out because there were so much a three mile island that kind of thing there was an ecological challenge when a go when leaving college in the world named lovelock is saying we should develop atomic energy as a source of non polluting source of energy is an important modern now is asian development that should be encouraged articulate for why can't iran go along that line i would like to know gates and pretend it is my understanding of the history of the lawn they have tried to keep it on the developed bare for pregnant and in the kitchen yes you could use something maybe for you know they could become a threat to our power we've got all the power we can intimidate you with it and if there's something you can't develop because if you develop you might become a threat to us things going on in latin america there is a resistance against the system in the assumed legitimacy that the united states of america is running dog allies around the world living in gated communities all over the world serving themselves and not serving the mass of the people in the talking with there a flounder so i think you know today she confirmed for me that the disparity of wealth between the arista o's seventeen eighty nine france amended to parity of wealth between the super reality in the united one tenth of one percent of what the one hundredth of one percent is where all the growth for it within the american economy is like the arista like the futile to lords of the past and what they've got all the assets they've got all the power and we're all picking up leaves on their estate it's like futile when i was ok was amazing one of the problems is you're too interesting ok that's your problem you shouldn't be so interesting because i could talk to you for twenty five hours but you were recently in iran visiting back in iran and you do you happen to get some footage there video footage and we want to share we get that we've got about fifteen minutes to go so let's make sure we get it when we were in iran and maybe you could as they say set up this clip it's about six minutes good you said that let the people see what this box friends friendship committee and stop the war on iran let's run that piece of tape then it goes for about six minutes and if you run that  i know the country below were there are these are these rumblings now that there are crammed they want to set it up as they did with iraq they want to set it up to an attack iran this is something that is blowing in the wind as they say now this is a threat other members of the united nations security council to accept that the russians and chinese are not for it or they know that he's devoted that the united states goes to starts with sanctions and ends up in the not the water so they they made a big mess in iraq vets hope they do not make a big mess in iraq and we ought to keep your committee in place to keep educating people so that we do not allow this country to be led astray as they have been led astray in iraq century there are people that want to institute a war clash of civilizations samuel huntington and bernard lewis and some of these people a lot of it has the do and it with protecting israel in the minds of many that you had a fight with on would like to negotiate to dialogues solving the problems and not to water that's by all means the way to go we ought to run the graphics and so forth here the problem is we run out of time an omani yes and he is again the founder of the american to raney and friendship committee in these also chairman of stop the war on iran campaign and we've put up contact information is up on the three now and they'd be happy to be in touch with you and dan help share you they've got literature and so forth they can make available thank you for all the good work and i appreciate you very much for coming in to let this just be the beginning