The inner workings of an untold (Iran) deal - with Rich Goldberg

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🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Back in July, we dedicated an episode to the question of whether the U.S. was on the cusp of reaching a new deal with Iran. Or was an unofficial deal already hatched that nobody was talking about? According to Rich Goldberg, the answers to these questions are now becoming more clear. Rich has also been focused on another development that didn’t get sufficient press attention this summer: the release of US hostages by Iran. Rich wrote an important piece for The Dispatch analyzing that deal, and in our conversation today we examine it in the context of the broader arrangement Rich believes we have with Iran right now. We also discuss what exactly is going on behind all the chatter about a U.S.-brokered normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Rich Goldberg is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. From 2019-2020, he served as a Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. He previously served as a national security staffer in the US Senate and US House. Rich is an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve with military experience on the Joint Staff and in Afghanistan. Item discussed in this episode: "The Disastrous Implications of the $6 Billion Iran Hostage Deal": thedispatch.com/article/the-disastrous-implications-of-the-6-billion-iran-hostage-deal/

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0:00.0	This 60% high-en-risk uranium that we've been concerned about,
0:04.0	this is the 99% of the way to weapons-grade uranium from a technical perspective,
0:10.0	stockpile is not growing as fast as it was before.
0:16.2	Not that it's been eliminated, not that it's been removed,
0:19.6	not that they've stopped enriching high and rich uranium at 20% or let alone at the 60% level,
0:24.8	they have simply started to slow down their production of their highest and
0:30.1	rich uranium to date at 60%. That's the win. Before today's conversation just one housekeeping note I want to flag a couple of
0:48.5	upcoming guests. We are recording Mohammed Al- Arian and that episode will drop on Thursday of this week, not our regular Monday.
0:59.1	It will drop on Thursday.
1:01.2	And the reason we're getting that in is a whole slew of recent
1:04.2	economic numbers and developments to discuss and we always like checking in with
1:08.4	Mohammed when there is news in the macro economy and also in a few days the opening of the NFL regular season
1:16.4	including the Jets home opener Monday Night Football against the AFC East rival Buffalo Bills and Mohammed is a fellow Jets fan always has keen insight not only into economics and markets
1:27.2	but also into Jets football so in the Venn diagram he's in the sweet spot of topics I like to discuss and then soon after that we'll be having
1:35.1	Carl Rove return to the podcast to talk about 2024. There's a lot of thoughts, a lot of questions
1:42.0	I still have. I think there's a lot of conventional wisdom out there
1:44.9	That reflects a dynamic that is far less rigid than is actually being discussed and analyzed and hopefully car will help disabuse people of that conventional wisdom that Division throughout American history that I wanted to talk to him about.
2:03.3	But as for today's conversation, back in July, you may recall, we dedicated an entire episode
2:09.0	to the question of whether the U.S. is on the cusp of reaching a new deal with Iran or whether or not a deal
2:15.5	had actually already been hatched that nobody was talking about? Well, the answers to that
2:21.2	question are now becoming more clear.
2:23.3	It's complicated.
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