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50. Im. It was go until it was not cocked and loaded to attack iran President Donald Trump pulled back from the precipice would just moments remaining calling off military strikes on iraq crisis averted or deferred tehrans downing of an american surveillance drone prompted the aborted retaliation by the u. S. Bringing the arch enemies dangerously close to war fanning the flames of war and posturing with lives on the line where do washington and tehran go from here on. This is the day. The presid...

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Battle here because its trying to paint the administration in washington as rhetorical tough when it comes to action week and so iran is trying to solidify a narrative that america cannot in fact to borrow from the founding father of the islamic republic khomeini it cannot do a damn thing quote and this is in fact a pretty dangerous narrative to want to stick on to the administration because the ministration could be incentivized to escalate in response to its iran to prove that there are proble...

Other allied forces want to keep eyes on al be it from a distance there are of course a few times in iranian history in the 40 years of these long republic when iran has backed down and if you look at that history it actually has backed down when it was presented with the alternative of no way out of the room or as you mentioned when the back is to the way iran ended the 1980 s. and 1988 iran iraq war when it was extended needlessly for 6 years is an example the for the 1st 7 years of that war t...

And their reporting on the u.s. military attack preparation and the presidents tweet in response leave the world a bit breathless tonight i want to speak 1st with iran analyst ben to lulu he is with the foundation of defense of democracy a think tank in washington he is joining us however from singapore where he is currently a very good evening sir is this a needless crisis. good evening to you it could be seen as a needless crisis but why is it was i think its important to have the facts in pro...

Table as opposed to washington driving to iran to the negotiating table what is a high risk strategy by theres a high risk strategy because what happens if mr town tend not get a bigger better agreement because in the end what has pulling out of this nuclear deal its heaved a deal with iran which according to the i.a.e.a. risk complying with fully. well thats thats also important point because when the u.s. left the deal last may the reason given for leaving the deal was not related to complianc...

Emphasize here that the iranian leadership knows not want war the same way that president trump does not want war but we are in a climate that friction between the 2 sides is at a level and given the degree of tensions and the fact that there is no channel of communication that we can easily stumble into a conflict with a simple accident or an incident that no one has really conforte will bilateral relations ever normalize. look no enmity is for ever in the same way that no alliance is. perpetua...

Project director on iran there and known around washington and undoubtedly in tehran for an opinion piece headlined the u.s. should strive for a stable iran instead it is suffocating it well he wont theres so much discussed peace in the washington post with a former iranian foreign minister and ambassador to the us from before the iranian revolution all right and mr vi as id like to welcome you to the program you noted in your op-ed that you are from the post iranian revolution era but you and a...

Escalating further and not just in the area that you mentioned which is you know pushing back an un-american a military sense in the persian gulf i think we can expect to see more of what we saw in may in countries where iranian proxies are active such as iraq and syria out expect them to do want to target u.s. forces or u.s. assets or u.s. interests in the cyber domain i would expect iran to be quite active the missile test in world as well as well as irans nuclear program president rouhani of ...

Washington and the voice. of the international crisis group mr bass is the project director on iran there and known around washington and undoubtedly in tehran for an opinion piece headlined the u.s. should strive for a stable iran instead it is suffocating it well he wont theres so much discussed peace in the washington post with a former iranian foreign minister and ambassador to the us from before the iranian revolution all right and mr vi as id like to welcome you to the program you noted in...