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Amanpour: Barham Salih, Warren Binford and Frank Langfitt

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Barham Salih, the Iraqi President, sits down with Christiane Amanpour to discuss rebuilding Iraq after sanctions, the 2003 invasion and the devastation of ISIS. Warren Binford, professor of law at Willamette University, gives her take on the controversial child detention centers on the U.S-Mexico border. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Frank Langfitt, author of "The Shanghai Free Taxi", about moving to China and creating a free taxi service powered by the exchange of conversations instead of money.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amampur here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

The doors to diplomacy are closed.

0:11.0

The doors to diplomacy are closed.

0:13.6

Tehran tells Washington as tensions ratchet up.

0:17.0

What does all this mean for Iran's Persian Gulf neighbor,

0:20.3

Iraq?

0:21.1

My interview with the President Bahran Salé.

0:24.0

Then, after reports of shocking conditions at detention facilities in Texas,

0:29.0

I speak to the lawyer Warren Binford about what she saw inside.

0:33.8

Plus, unearthing the real China by offering free taxi rides in Shanghai.

0:39.6

NPR correspondent Frank Langfeit talks to our Harry Sri

0:43.0

Navasan. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. The Iranian

1:02.0

President Hassan Rouhani has accused the United States

1:04.8

of suffering a mental disability after the Trump administration issued new

1:09.6

sanctions against top Iranian leaders including the supreme leader Ayatollah

1:14.4

harmony. In response President Trump has tweeted that

1:17.6

and tack by Iran on anything American will be met with overwhelming force

1:22.2

and even obliteration.

1:24.0

Iran's Persian Gulf neighbor Iraq is worried about being caught up in this

1:28.3

mailstrom where angry words and crippling sanctions could spin out of control, even between leaders who say they don't

1:35.1

want war.

1:36.1

Mindful of America's disastrous 2003 war in Iraq based on false intelligence, I ask the Iraqi president, Bahram Sala, what all this means

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