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Jan 2025

37m 40s

Trump 2.0 and Iran

NEGAR MORTAZAVI

About this episode

Negar Mortazavi, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, speaks with Benjamin Friedman, policy director at Defense Priorities, and Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Quincy Institute in Washington, about Donald Trump’s second term and his policy towards Iran.

Episode 126.

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