The New Deal - Iran & its nuclear program, with Mark Dubowitz

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What is happening right now in Vienna with the negotiations over the future of Iran’s nuclear program? What was the significance of Putin’s recent trip to Iran? What is the nature of China’s relationship with Iran, and what can it tell us about Beijing’s grand strategy? And if Iran continues to build its nuclear program, what is Israel’s Plan B? These are some of the questions we explore with Mark Dubowitz, who is the CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC. We sat down with while we’re in Israel. Mark has advised the Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and testified more than twenty times before the U.S. Congress and foreign legislatures. A former venture capitalist and technology executive, Mark has a master’s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. According to The New York Times, “Mark Dubowitz’s campaign to draw attention to what he saw as the flaws in the Iran nuclear deal has taken its place among the most consequential ever undertaken by a Washington think tank leader.” According to The Atlantic, “Dubowitz has been helping design and push forward sanctions on Iran…establishing the FDD as D.C.’s ground zero for research and policy recommendations aimed at highlighting and fixing what Dubowitz saw as the flaws in the nuclear agreement.”

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0:00.0	Putin needs help from some country that is experienced in sanctions busting.
0:05.0	The Iranians are very experienced in sanctions busting.
0:08.0	And so he's gone to the Iranians.
0:10.0	He's asked for Iranian expertise in helping evade Western sanctions on his country.
0:16.0	And it's a clear indication that if we lift sanctions on Iran,
0:21.0	then all of these banking channels will open up for the Iranians all
0:24.8	these energy channels and Russia will use Iranian channels to sanctions bust.
0:31.0	So Putin has a lot of interests in this deal and to depend on Putin's
0:36.7	man in Vienna to negotiate this deal is geopolitical malpractice. What is the
0:53.6	happening right now in Vienna with the negotiations over the future of Iran's
0:58.4	nuclear program? What was the significance of Putin's recent trip to Iran? What is the significance of Putin's recent trip to Iran?
1:03.2	What is the nature of China's relationship with Iran and what can it tell us about
1:07.6	Beijing's grand strategy?
1:09.6	And if Iran continues to build its nuclear program, unabated, what is Israel's plan B?
1:16.0	These are some of the questions I explore with Mark Dubuitz, who is the CEO of the
1:23.2	non-partisan think tank based in Washington DC
1:26.2	although I have this conversation with Mark here in Israel
1:28.9	where I sat down with him while we're both here.
1:32.2	Mark has advised the Bush, Obama, Trump,
1:34.6	and Biden administrations and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and testified
1:38.8	more than 20 times before the US Congress and foreign legislatures. He's a former venture
1:44.2	capitalist and technology executive that has a master's degree in
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