Biden Addresses SOTU, Iran Holds Elections, Bosnia’s Pipeline Feud, and More

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

4.6 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his last State of the Union address before elections to a polarized Congress; Iran holds its first parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections since the 2022 protests sparked by the death of activist Mahsa Amini; Bosnia and Herzegovina marks independence as ethnic divisions fester; and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) welcomes Sweden as its newest member state. Mentioned on the Podcast Arash Ghafouri and Alex Vatanka, “Five Key Takeaways From New Poll Ahead of Iran’s Parliamentary Elections,” Middle East Institute Andrew Higgins, “A Land Once Emptied by War Now Faces a Peacetime Exodus,” New York Times Andrew Osborn and Vladimir Soldatkin, “Putin Warns West of Risk of Nuclear War, Says Moscow can Strike Western Targets,” Reuters For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/biden-addresses-sotu-iran-holds-elections-bosnias-pipeline-feud-and-more

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0:00.0	In the coming week, President Biden delivers the last state of the union of his current term.
0:04.8	Iran holds elections for its Parliament and Assembly of Experts and Bosnia and Herzegovina marks Independence Day while enmeshed in a gas pipeline feud.
0:12.6	It's February 29, 2024, in time for the world next week. I'm Baumickman.
0:28.2	And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.
0:29.5	Carl, I don't get to say this that often, but happy leap day.
0:33.6	Nobody gets to say this very often.
0:35.1	No, no.
0:36.1	And happy birthday to those who have that quadrennial birthday celebration on this day, by the way.
0:41.6	But let's start here in Washington, where President Biden's State of the Union address is scheduled for next Thursday.
0:48.3	As we went to tape this podcast, Carla, lawmakers appeared to have put off an immediate government shutdown, but deep divisions
0:54.6	certainly remain.
0:56.3	And also, as we were taping this podcast, both President Biden and former President Trump were
1:01.5	making competing visits to the U.S. border with Mexico.
1:05.8	So how to judge the state of the union at this point, Carla?
1:10.4	So, but we're professional writers, and I am always amazed at this task confronting
1:16.3	State of the Union speech writers.
1:18.0	The jocke inside the administration and out to get the president to talk about what they
1:23.0	want him to talk about is always really intense.
1:25.8	You know, we're going to highlight my favorite program.
1:28.2	Are you going to pitch yourself in a specific way? And this year, the tension has just got to be
1:33.5	off the charts because you've got a presidential campaign. You've just got multitude of fast-moving
1:39.0	domestic and international crises. I mean, today we have this awful massacre in Gaza versus the fact of this question,
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