E243 - Europe, Iran, and the Transatlantic Relationship w/ Eldar Mamedov

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

Politics, History, News

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Danny and Derek welcome to the show Eldar Mamedov, foreign policy expert and non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute, to talk about Europe’s response to the war in Iran. They discuss European support and hesitation toward the US-Israel attack, inconsistencies in international law, shifts in European rhetoric as the war continues, fears over economic fallout and energy disruption, Europe’s loss of leverage after the nuclear deal collapsed, dependence on the United States for security, domestic political pressures in Europe, and the prospects for diplomacy with Iran and Russia. See more of Eldar’s work at the Quincy Institute. Don't forget to download our new miniseries Marx Prestige. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	I'm joined, as always, by my friend and comrade Danny Bester, and we're very pleased to welcome to the program Eld Eldar Mamadav. Eldar is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert. He has long experience working
1:15.1	with the European Union. He's also a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute. Eldar,
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1:22.9	So one aspect of the war with Iran that we haven't talked too much about on this show yet,
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