The Future of the US-Iran Relationship
Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN
4.2 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York. |
| 0:12.1 | Today on the program, after Friday's talks between the U.S. and Iran, is a new nuclear deal possible. |
| 0:27.6 | I'll talk to Wendy Sherman, who led the U.S. side of the negotiations that led to the last deal with Iran. Plus, the journalist Kim Gattis. |
| 0:31.6 | Then, Tuesday will mark four months since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began. |
| 0:39.3 | But all is not quiet on that Middle Eastern front. |
| 0:43.3 | More than 500 gauzens have been killed in that time, including at least 24 on Wednesday alone. |
| 0:51.3 | And a true peace seems very far away. |
| 0:55.0 | I'll talk to former CNN correspondent, Arwa Damon, about the state of play in Gaza today. |
| 1:02.0 | Finally, how will AI change our health, our lifespans, will the cure diseases previously |
| 1:10.0 | thought to be uncurable. |
| 1:12.6 | I'll bring you a great discussion with three key thinkers on this topic. |
| 1:22.6 | But first, here's my take. |
| 1:24.6 | We all sense that the world is entering a more uncertain phase. |
| 1:29.8 | Alliances feel shakier, trade is fragmenting, and great powers are jostling more openly. |
| 1:35.4 | But beneath these visible shifts lie something less discussed and more dangerous, the slow |
| 1:41.4 | collapse of nuclear stability. For much of the Cold War, people were terrified that a world with nuclear weapons would inevitably lead to proliferation |
| 1:52.0 | and that wars would end up nuclear. |
| 1:55.0 | After all, rarely in human history has a weapon sat unused in arsenals. But that is what happened. The arsenals remained, |
| 2:05.9 | but they were bound by treaties, habits, and doctrines about restraint. Arms control agreements |
| 2:12.4 | capped numbers. Deterance relationships were relatively clear. Proliferation was constrained, if imperfectly, by norms and pressure. |
| 2:22.3 | It was not a safe world, but it was a stable one. |
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