Rising tensions in the Middle East

Fareed Zakaria GPS

CNN

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4.3 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show, Fareed is joined by the New Yorker’s Robin Wright and Johns Hopkins professor Vali Nasr to break down the latest escalations in the Middle East following the killings of three Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Will tensions between Israel and Iran lead to a full-scale regional war? Can the US do anything to de-escalate the situation? Then, last week saw the largest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Bill Browder, formerly the largest foreign investor in Russia, speaks with Fareed about the negotiations that freed US journalist Evan Gershkovich and 23 other prisoners. Finally, co-founder of the Venezuelan opposition party Voluntad Popular Leopoldo López joins Fareed to discuss the fallout from his country’s presidential elections, and why the US and counties around the world are calling the results into question. GUESTS: Robin Wright (@wrightr), Vali Nasr (@vali_nasr), Bill Browder (@Billbrowder), Leopoldo López (@leopoldolopez) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.0	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:38.0	I'm Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from New York.
0:42.0	Today on the program, the Middle East on edge.
0:46.0	Iran and its axis of resistance are vowing revenge against Israel
0:51.0	after the targeted killings of three top Hamas and Hezbollah officials.
0:56.2	How will the Axis strike and when? And our hopes of a ceasefire in Gaza now dashed.
1:04.0	I'll ask the New Yorkers Robin Wright and Valin Nasser of Johns Hopkins.
1:09.0	Also, the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War. Seven countries were involved
1:15.4	and 24 prisoners were delivered across borders including three Americans.
1:20.3	I'll talk to Putin critic Bill Browder about who got the better end of the deal.
1:27.0	Then Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro has claimed victory in last week's elections.
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