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#178 - Does Maximum Pressure Against Iran Work?

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The targeted killing of General Qassim Suleimani sent shockwaves around the world and sparked staunch debate about the Trump administration's "maximum pressure" campaign. Supporters argue that this strategy, which includes leaving the JCPOA and imposing harsh economic sanctions, will safeguard American interests, quell Tehran's human rights abuses, and halt the state's support of terrorist networks. But opponents see "maximum pressure" as dangerously misguided. They argue that abandoning the hard-fought JCPOA and undermining the Iranian economy has promoted violence, isolated allies, and fueled anti-American sentiment. Is the maximum pressure campaign against Iran working? Presented in partnership with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University Motion: The Maximum Pressure Campaign Against Iran Is Working For the Motion: Victor Davis Hanson - Military Historian & Author, “The Case for Trump” H. R. McMaster - Retired Lieutenant General, U.S. Army & Former National Security Advisor Against the Motion: Martha Crenshaw - Terrorism Studies Expert & Author, “Explaining Terrorism” Abbas Milani - Iranian Studies Program Director, Stanford University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi everybody, I'm John Don Van, host and moderator of Intelligent Squared U.S. debates. For

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40 years plus a few now, the U.S. has been in a most hostile relationship with the Republic

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of Iran. Sometimes hot war kind of conflict, in fact. And for all of that time, it's clear what

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the U.S. wants Iran not to be, not a state with nukes, not a nation destabilizing the Middle

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East, not a government exporting Islamic extremism. And to that end, the Obama administration

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tried a little bit of a carrot approach. The idea was give the Iranians something that would

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