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Dealing with Tehran

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Last week, Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said that talks with the Trump administration appear to be going well.

This tells host Cliff May that from an American perspective, the talks are going badly.

President Trump has said that America’s goal is the “full dismantlement” of the regime’s nuclear weapons program, including its capacity to produce missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads to targets anywhere in the world.

Mr. Araghchi’s goal is to prevent President Trump from achieving his goal. Who are you betting on?

Cliff asks Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, who just wrote a piece together in Politico arguing that sanctions and maximum pressure have never made the clerical regime abandon its nuclear ambitions.

Which raises the question: What will?

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Last week, Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said that talks with the Trump administration appear to be going well.

This tells host Cliff May that from an American perspective, the talks are going badly.

President Trump has said that America’s goal is the “full dismantlement” of the regime’s nuclear weapons program, including its capacity to produce missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads to targets anywhere in the world.

Mr. Araghchi’s goal is to prevent President Trump from achieving his goal. Who are you betting on?

Cliff asks Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, who just wrote a piece together in Politico arguing that sanctions and maximum pressure have never made the clerical regime abandon its nuclear ambitions.

Which raises the question: What will?

  continue reading

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