How Trump Chose War with Iran, a Political History with Robert Malley and Stephen Wertheim

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Today we’re fast-tracking an episode just so we keep on pace with breaking news and bring you a talk with Robert Malley, a lecturer at the Yale Jackson School who worked as a lead negotiator on the 2015 Obama Iran Nuclear Deal, and Stephen Wertheim, a historian of US foreign policy and one of the best follows on Twitter. They discuss the recent op-ed they authored in the Times and lay out what happened a historical perspective on the past ten years of diplomacy, Trump’s turn, and pretty much everything you really should know about what’s going on in Iran. Very informative episode, take a listen.

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