The Iran Plan
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Steve Coll and Robin Wright join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the implications of the nuclear talks with Iran.
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| 0:54.0 | It's Friday, July 10th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday, July 10th. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 0:59.0 | The Iranian nuclear negotiations have been underway for years, |
| 1:02.3 | and numerous deadlines have passed, including a few this week. |
| 1:06.1 | Yesterday, a tired, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke from Vienna. |
| 1:10.4 | This is not open-ended. You can't wait |
| 1:14.0 | forever for the decision to be made. We know that. If the tough decisions don't get made, |
| 1:18.6 | we are absolutely prepared to call an end to this process. Stephen Cole and Robin Wright are here |
| 1:24.4 | to discuss the possibility of an historic agreement with Iran and what it would mean for the region. |
| 1:30.2 | Robin, Obama has made diplomacy with Iran a centerpiece of his international diplomacy. |
| 1:35.4 | How involved has he been in these talks? |
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