Amanpour: Michael Kergin, Richard Dalton, Barbara Slavin, Ervand Abrahamian and Daniel Fessler

Amanpour

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Speaking at a candlelit vigil in Toronto to mourn the victims of the Ukrainian plane crash which killed all 176 on board, including many Canadian and Iranian nationals, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canadians "deserve answers." To discuss this tragic human cost of this diplomatic drama, Christiane Amanpour speaks with Canada's former Ambassador to the U.S Michael Kergin. Richard Dalton, former British Ambassador to Iran, and Barbara Slavin, the Atlantic Council's top Iran expert, talk about the urgent need for diplomacy to ease tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Ervand Abrahamian, historian and Iranian-American author of "The Coup", digs down into the turbulent and complex relationship between the two nations that goes back decades. He sits down with our Walter Isaacson and looks back at the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis of 1979. In a world filled with violence and polarization, Daniel Fessler, anthropologist and director of the UCLA Kindness Institute, explains the need for more kindness in the world.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 Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Conflicting stories on what brought down the Ukrainian airline over Tehran
0:15.0	all on board were killed including 63 Canadians.
0:19.0	I speak to the former Canadian ambassador to the US.
0:22.0	Then taking stock a week of high crisis and next steps,
0:26.0	with former British Ambassador to Iran,
0:28.0	Richard Dalton, and American Iran expert Barbara Slavin.
0:32.0	And this crisis began even before the Ayatollahs came to power.
0:37.0	Professor Ervan Abrahamian talks to our Walter Isexcell.
0:41.1	Plus kindness can be contagious and even lower your blood pressure. I speak
0:46.2	to the director everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London. It was the
1:07.5	week the world held its breath after targeted killings of Iran's military
1:11.7	chief, Khasem Soleimimani by the United States.
1:14.8	And it took a tragic turn when the Ukraine
1:17.2	airliner crashed over Tehran killing all 176 people aboard.
1:22.2	Most were Iranians and Canadians along with 11 Ukrainians and
1:25.9	other nationals and while it was first called a crash the United States and its
1:30.3	allies now believe the plane was actually brought down by an Iranian missile.
1:35.0	This video appears to show the moment that a missile hit an object in the sky over Tehran.
1:41.0	But Iran's civil aviation chief denies it.
1:44.0	The thing that is clear to us and that we can say with certainty is that this plane was not hit by a missile.
1:52.0	As I said last night, this plane was not hit by a missile.
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