Amanpour: David Urban, Mohammad Marandi, Antony Blinken and Mina Al-Oraibi

Amanpour

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🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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David Urban, corporate lobbyist and Trump's campaign strategist, joins Christiane Amanpour to give his analysis of the President's address to the nation after Iran's retaliatory airstrike on U.S. coalition air bases in Iraq. Mohammad Marandi, chair of American Studies at the University of Tehran, gives his view from Tehran; he assesses the proportionality of this strike as well as the rhetoric coming from the two leaders of the hostile nations. Antony Blinken, former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser, discusses how President Trump has seemingly stepped back from further military confrontation whilst at the same time still fervently criticizing the Iran nuclear deal. Mina Al-Oraibi, editor-in-chief at The National, also weighs in about the impact this will have on the Persian Gulf states who are very dependent on America's military presence in the region. She unpacks Trump's desire for NATO to take on some of that burden.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	Iran appears to be standing down which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing
0:16.4	for the world.
0:17.8	And President Trump appears to be saying this round of military escalation is over, while also slapping new sanctions on Iran and calling
0:26.2	on them to make a new deal.
0:28.1	We talk to Trump confidant and 2020 campaign official David Urban.
0:33.0	Then, the United States raged an economic war against Iran, the United States has to come
0:38.8	to its senses.
0:39.8	The view from inside Iran and what does all this mean for American foreign policy in the region?
0:45.8	I speak to former Deputy National Security Advisor Anthony Blinkin.
0:50.0	Plus, the fallout for the region, did President Trump indicate the rules of the game are changing?
0:56.0	Analysis from journalist Mina Al-Oraibi in Abu Dhabi. extreme. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:17.0	Iran seems to be standing down. Those are the words of President Trump as he addressed the nation after Iran's retaliatory strikes on US bases in Iraq.
1:26.3	Take a listen.
1:27.3	All of our soldiers are safe and only minimal damage was sustained at our military basis.
1:37.0	Our great American forces are prepared for anything.
1:42.0	Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world.
1:52.0	The president spoke hours after Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at
1:56.8	two Iraqi military bases housing US troops overnight, a strike that Iran's supreme leader called a slap in the face of America.
2:05.8	The belief in the administration seems to be that Iran chose to send a message rather than
2:10.1	taking action that would provoke a substantial US military response, a rationale
2:15.2	for calming tensions perhaps. It seems there may be no further escalation over the killing
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