At the Vienna talks on restoring the Iran nuclear deal, the US and EU are accusing Iran of refusing to compromise. Mohammad Marandi, a University of Tehran professor advising the Iran delegation in Vienna, says that the compromise was the nuclear deal itself, and the problem is the US refusal to abide by its own commitments and lift the sanctions that target ... Show More
Nov 2023
Norman Finkelstein on Gaza - live in NYC
Norman Finkelstein, historian and scholar, joins Aaron Maté for a live discussion about Israel's war on Gaza, the meaning of Hamas' atrocities, the question of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and U.S. complicity. Recorded live in NYC on Nov. 7th, 2023.
1h 18m
Jan 2022
Can Iran and the US reach a new nuclear deal?
Talks in Vienna between Iran and the US have resumed in the hope of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
It was then US President Donald Trump who, in 2018, decided to ignore foreign policy experts, and his own advisers, and pulled the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. ... Show More
14m 55s
Feb 2021
Yemen may be best opportunity for regional diplomacy with Iran, says Mohsen Milani
Mohsen Milani, professor of politics at the University of South Florida and a leading scholar of Iranian politics, discusses why Iran is ready to talk with the US, and reenter the Iran nuclear deal, but only from a position of strength; why Iran is in a stronger regional position ... Show More
44m 58s
Jul 2021
Why is Biden's Iran Policy the Same as Trump's?
Assal Rad, a Senior Research Fellow at NIAC (the National Iranian American Council) joins Rania Khalek Dispatches to discuss the ongoing suffering of Iranians from US sanctions, the return to the Iran nuclear deal, and how little has actually changed under Biden as his team seems ... Show More
1h 17m