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How do you solve a problem like Iran? Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is here to talk with Sarah and Steve about the Biden administration's approach to Iran after six months in office. Was moving away from the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign the right move?
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I would recommend that when you bring the think tank folks whose job is often to backfill arguments supporting conclusions that are consistent with the think tank's stated goals that you follow it up with an interview from another (preferably credible) think tank (may be CFR?) either as a counter or perhaps just a different take. I don't think the take that we just needed to give the maximum pressure program more time to force Iran to the table is very persuasive, given that Iran has effectively resisted external pressure successfully for 40 years - regardless of the country's cash reserves. But I'm not an expert, although I do like the podcast format and hope that Dispatch can give these difficult foreign affairs issues the serious analysis they deserve beyond the reductive political frame that many of these think tankers and partisan-oriented pundits use (see, e.g., Pletka).
Enjoyed this interview. The Biden admin is delusional on Iran. Wanted to comment to give my support to Goldberg since I think some of the commenters have been unfair to him - mainly on his article last week - saying it’s propaganda. I’m entirely in the camp of people like him and Tom Joscelyn and Dani Pletka. But they sure get grief sometimes from the commenters.