The (Iran) deal that shall not be named - with Rich Goldberg

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Is the US on the cusp of reaching a new deal with Iran? Or has a deal already been hatched that nobody is talking about? To help us understand what is going on, Rich Goldberg returns to the podcast. Rich 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. He was a founding staff director of the House U.S.-China Working Group and was among the first Americans ever to visit China’s human space launch center. A leader in efforts to expand U.S. missile defense cooperation with Israel, Rich played a key role in U.S. funding for the Iron Dome. Rich is an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve with military experience on the Joint Staff and in Afghanistan.

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0:00.0	What are we getting by the way for this understanding with Iran this many deal right so if there's 24 billion dollars of cash potentially on the table
0:08.2	We are reportedly getting an understanding that Iran will simply not enrich 90% weapons-grade uranium.
0:15.2	That's it.
0:16.2	That's it.
0:17.2	There's some other reporting of maybe they won't kill Americans in Syria, so it's like a
0:21.1	protection racket, right?
0:22.3	Like, we won't hurt you more than we're
0:24.4	already hurting you if you give us the U.S. on the cusp of reaching a new deal with Iran or a mini deal or a deal that has no name because nobody in
0:48.0	Tehran or Washington can talk about it. What is actually going on? There's a lot of
0:52.3	noise around the US-Iran
0:54.8	negotiating track. It's not clear exactly what's happening. Now help us understand
1:00.4	what is actually going on. We asked Rich Goldberg to come back on the
1:04.2	podcast. Rich is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of
1:07.9	democracies. From 2019 through 2020 he served as a director for countering Iranian weapons of mass
1:14.2	destruction for the White House National Security Council. Rich previously
1:18.0	served as a National Security Advisor in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate that's where
1:21.8	I first got to know him and he was a
1:23.2	founding staff director for the U.S. House of Representatives U.S. China
1:28.0	Working Group and he was among the first Americans ever to visit China's
1:31.0	Human Space Launch Center. Rich is a leader in efforts to expand
1:35.2	U.S. missile defense cooperation with Israel and he played a key role in U.S. funding
1:39.9	for the Iron Dome back when he was working in Congress.
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