July 14, 2019: Iran's push back against the West & the future of U.S. - U.K. relations

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 14 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Former U.S. Energy Secretary, Ernest Moniz, tells Fareed about the fate of the nuclear deal amid rising tensions between Iran and the West. And, Washington's special relationship with Westminster, how will it survive the current strain? The U.K.'s former Foreign Secretary tells Fareed what's next for the two nations. Guests: Ernest Moniz, David Miliband, Tom Friedman, Menaka Guruswamy, Arundhati Katju

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square.
0:05.0	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:08.0	I'm Farid Zakaria.
0:10.0	We'll start today's show with growing tensions between Iran and the West.
0:15.0	Tankers and gun boats.
0:17.0	Sanctions and economic misery.
0:20.0	Where is this all going?
0:24.0	I'll talk to one of the deals top negotiators,
0:27.0	former Secretary of Energy, Ernest Manines.
0:31.0	Then an undiplomatic response from President Trump.
0:35.0	After diplomatic cables are leaked, the direct affair.
0:40.0	He has felt it necessary to leave his position as ambassador.
0:45.0	Whatever happened to the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom,
0:51.0	I will ask Britain's former foreign secretary, David Milo-Benn.
0:57.0	Also, American leaders have hailed Israel as a beacon of democracy in the Middle East.
1:02.0	Now as an election fight heats up, some say it's a democracy on the brink.
1:08.0	I will talk to Thomas Friedman, who believes that the future of Israel itself is on the line.
1:16.0	But first, here's my take.
1:19.0	The best illustration of the incoherence of the Trump administration's strategy toward Iran
1:24.0	came last week in a White House press release.
1:27.0	It read, there is little doubt that even before the deal's existence,
1:33.0	Iran was violating its terms.
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