This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around

the world. I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you from New York City.

Today on the program, world leaders made their annual journey to New York City this week

for the UN General Assembly. Among them, Iran's president, Abraham Raisin. After his fiery

speech, he sat down with me for an exclusive interview. I asked him about his country's

nuclear program. It's placed in a Middle East, deeply changed by the Abraham Accords. And

about women's rights in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amin and the protests that followed.

All these hundreds of millions, maybe over a billion Muslims wrong and only the Islamic

Republic of Iran is right, then open trade has been one of the great engines of progress

in the world, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Is it now moving

in reverse? And is America to blame? I'll talk to the head of the World Trade Organization

and Gozi Okonjo Iweila, who says the world needs a new vision for globalization.

But first, here's my take. The Biden administration has pursued a new and ambitious economic agenda,

promised on the notion that the prevailing orthodoxy of the last few decades, specifically

the imperative to embrace free markets and free trade, was inadequate to the needs of the

American economy. That approach according to the critics gave priority to efficiency

at the cost of inequality, a hollowing out of manufacturing, and an overreliance on

countries like China. By contrast, Biden has put together the largest public investment

in the American economy in many decades. Most of it designed to encourage a revival

in manufacturing, specifically targeting the chip-making industry, and to transition

the energy sector to renewables. Initial data from the U.S. Treasury Department

suggests these policies have succeeded. Spending on the construction of manufacturing facilities

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