Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

One of my favorite topics to focus on this year has been the Place of the Middle East

in America's 21st Century Conception and Foreign Policy.

I've done a bunch of episodes on the topic this year, especially earlier back in April.

We focused on how the US's record in the region doesn't particularly come out looking too great.

Over the past 40 years, and then, of course, a little later on.

In the summer, we spoke with Michael R. Gordon of the Wall Street Journal,

focusing on how the war on terror, specifically the campaign against ISIS ended.

On today's episode, I speak with the author, Yona Jeremy Bob,

another entire aspect of the Middle East, which is the effort,

Israeli and golf slash Saudi state focused,

to destroy or prevent around from attaining a nuclear weapon.

Yona and his co-author specifically argue that this attempt to prevent a Iranian nuclear

weapons program has actually re-aligned the Middle East entirely, and we see that demonstrated

by the Abraham records. We're going to get into all that in this conversation,

definitely a new era to explore World Two, and I think a really useful one,

because this is one of those, unlike the previous Middle Eastern focus episodes,

that is only go to gather an importance moving forward.

Hope you all enjoy the conversation.

Yona Jeremy Bob, welcome to the realignment.

Glad to be here. Let me just start by asking the most important question that needs to frame

the rest of the conversation. Why does Iran want a nuclear weapon?

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