Debate: Iran Is Not Our Enemy

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🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Is Iran an enemy to be confronted or a potential ally to engage with? In this week's podcast we debate 'Iran is not our enemy' with Mehdi Hasan, Azadeh Moaveni, Daniel Hannan and Salman Al-Ansari. The debate was chaired by the BBC's Lyse Doucet. ------------------------------ Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on our new online platform. Just like at our real-life events, you’ll be able to put your questions to our speakers, vote in live polls and interact with other members of the audience. Your subscription will give you access to multiple events featuring the world’s top thinkers and opinion formers, including Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, Clive Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Meera Syal and Paloma Faith. For a full list of Intelligence Squared+ events and to subscribe, click here: https://bit.ly/2yfYIfm Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.2	plus. It was on the motion. Iran is not our enemy. And it features a cracking panel of
0:59.4	medi Hassan and Azadei Moavani up against Salma and
1:03.7	Daniel Hanen. And the debate was chaired by the BBC's Leise duet.
1:08.0	Welcome to all of you wherever you join us here tonight. And let me remind you ladies and gentlemen but I'm sure you
1:15.4	don't need a reminder. This is not just an intellectual argument. You may remember a
1:20.0	time not so long ago before this coronavirus pandemic when the fear of another war in the
1:26.8	Middle East sparked by tensions between Iran and the United States and its regional allies was at the top of the agenda in many capitals.
1:36.6	It dominated our headlines and it's still a major fault line.
1:41.0	When we emerge from this pandemic at some point we will and as we
1:44.8	approach the November elections in the United States, this issue may surface
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