Iran Expert Barbara Slavin on Tehran's Potential Path Forward
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Barbara Slavin, former journalist and Director of the ‘Future of Iran Initiative’ at the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington, DC. Morell and Slavin assess the U.S. foreign policy posture toward Iran and the effect of diplomatic efforts made to date. Slavin offers insight into Tehran’s calculus as the 2020 presidential elections approach, as well as its rapprochement with Russia and China. She also outlines Tehran’s likely regional and global objectives in the near term.
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| 0:37.3 | The government has been tolerated by Iranians, but has never been really popular. |
| 0:41.6 | But what's different now, I think, is a lot of people have given up hope, partly because |
| 0:46.4 | of the US sanctions, which have been so crippling, and partly because of the repressive forces |
| 0:51.8 | in their own government, which they see as being strengthened by US sanctions. |
| 0:58.7 | I think the Iranian showed what they called strategic patience for a year after the US |
| 1:03.8 | withdrew, and it was only when Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, said that Iran could |
| 1:08.2 | not export one drop of its oil, that we saw them shift from patience to resistance, |
| 1:14.9 | they would call it. |
| 1:15.9 | They say that if they can't export oil, then others should not be able to as well. |
| 1:20.3 | I think what they're trying to show is we can't have our Baklavine eat it too. |
| 1:25.1 | If the US is going to declare economic war on Iran, then US allies in the region will |
| 1:29.9 | bear the brunt. |
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