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Mar 2025
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Failure of Maximum Pressure

NEGAR MORTAZAVI
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Negar Mortazavi speaks to Hadi Kahalzadeh, an Iranian economist and sanctions expert at Brandeis University, about Trump’s policy of Maximum Pressure on Iran and why he thinks it is going to fail again.


Episode 128.

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