Welcome to the Origins Podcast and the Origins Project Foundation.

I'm your host here, Lawrence Krause.

And I want to introduce what may be a new continuing series, which is really goes back to one of our first guests and one of our most popular podcasts with none other than Noam Chomsky.

I asked Noam if we could periodically update our discussion by talking about current events.

So here you go, current events with Noam Chomsky, Iran. We've seen a principle, a new administration, in principle having a very different attitude,

in practice, not yet necessarily the case, but what do we do?

There's as we try and normalize what is clearly an abnormal situation in almost every way

when it comes to nuclear weapons, when it comes to sanctions,

when it comes to diplomatic relations. What do we do? No. For the time being, the Biden

administration has simply taken up Trump's position on Iran.

Rhetoric is slightly different.

But if you look at the

actual policy, it's

there's very little daylight between them.

Yeah.

The facts are

uncontroversial that

the United States pulled out of the agreement, actually in violation

of security counsel orders, if anybody cares about such trivialities, and imposed very harsh

sanctions on Iran with zero justification and then says we'll only return to

negotiations if Iran initiates it and agrees in advance that we're not going back to the joint agreement, the JCPOA,

but only to a much harsher agreement.

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