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Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Steve Hayes, joined today by my dispatch colleague Mike Warren,

and dispatch contributor and former Army Special Forces officer Mike Nelson for a discussion of U.S.

Foreign Policy and national security.

First, we'll talk with leading Iran analyst Karim Sajapur, a senior fellow at the Carnegie

Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle

East, and he's also a contributor at the Atlantic. We'll discuss the current unrest in Iran

and whether there's a real chance for the people to be freed from the oppressive regime.

We'll also discuss the state of the Ukraine-Russia war as the four-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion approaches.

And finally, and not worth your time, Olympic skier Hunter Hess said he has mixed emotions about representing the United States, and President Donald

Trump has strong emotions, as you might imagine, about that. Let's dive right in.

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Kareem, I want to start with a sort of a big picture question to you. We're here in this moment

following nationwide protests in Iran, an unspeakable massacre of Iranian citizens by the regime in

Tehran with repeated promises of U.S. military support for those protesters and repeated statements

of defiance from that regime. And now, even as

President Trump talks about a deal with massive U.S. military presence in the region, late last year,

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