IRAN - pariah no more? with Mark Dubowitz

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today we sit down in Israel with Mark Dubowitz, who is the CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), at a time that Saudi Arabia is reopening its embassy in Tehran, and Iran's relations appear to be flourishing with Beijing, Moscow and much of the Sunni Arab Middle East. Six months ago, Iran was under enormous pressure. What happened? In his role as CEO of FDD, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC, Mark has advised the Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, and he has testified more than twenty times before the U.S. Congress and foreign legislatures. A former venture capitalist and technology executive, Mark has a master’s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. According to The New York Times, “Mark Dubowitz’s campaign to draw attention to what he saw as the flaws in the Iran nuclear deal has taken its place among the most consequential ever undertaken by a Washington think tank leader.” According to The Atlantic, “Dubowitz has been helping design and push forward sanctions on Iran…establishing the FDD as D.C.’s ground zero for research and policy recommendations aimed at highlighting and fixing what Dubowitz saw as the flaws in the nuclear agreement.”

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0:00.0	The Ayatollah Khaminé has for a long time tried to turn Tel Aviv into Seoul.
0:08.8	Now what I mean by that is if you look at the Korean peninsula and you look at Seoul
0:12.0	Korea today.
0:13.0	Seoul is like Tel Aviv.
0:15.0	It's a vibrant, high-tech, dynamic capitalist economy.
0:19.0	To the north, sits North Korea.
0:21.0	North Korea has got nuclear weapons, but also has massive conventional
0:25.2	armory right on the border of South Korea.
0:29.5	So the idea is surround Israel on every border in order to threaten Tel Aviv, threaten the
0:34.4	industrial heartland of the technology heartland of this country and in doing so
0:38.5	undermine if not completely vitiate the IDF's military capabilities. When I last sat down with today's guest, Iran expert Mark Dubuets here in Israel,
1:00.0	Iran was on the back foot under enormous pressure domestically and increasingly a
1:06.1	pariah state in the region and internationally. Today Iran seems to be under a lot
1:11.6	less pressure domestically and its former adversary Saudi Arabia is
1:15.6	in the midst of reopening its embassy in Tehran. At the same time, Tehran has seemingly
1:20.6	new and flourishing relationships with Beijing and Moscow.
1:25.2	So what is actually going on with Iran at home in the region as it relates to Israel
1:31.2	and internationally? And what is going on with Iran's nuclear program?
1:36.3	As I said, we have Mark Dubuits on. Mark is the CEO of the Foundation for the Defense
1:40.7	of democracies, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C.
1:45.0	He's advised that Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
1:51.0	He's testified more than 20 times before the U.S. Congress
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