The nuclear deal with Iran won't make the world a safer place

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🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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For this week's episode we're revisiting our debate from November 2015, "The nuclear deal with Iran won't make the world a safer place". Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most formidable and celebrated lawyers, and Emily Landau, one of Israel’s top nuclear proliferation experts, went head to head with senior politicians Norman Lamont and Jack Straw, both impassioned advocates of rapprochement with Iran. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Robert Beston here.
0:02.0	On the 6th of December I'll record a tortoise podcast, The News Meeting,
0:07.0	when I'll tell you about the most important story of the year
0:10.0	and I'll also talk to you about my new book about how to fix Britain and the West.
0:15.6	Fast.
0:16.6	Now, as an exciting Christmas tree, you can join me at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill by going to Intelligencesquare.com to get tickets.
0:28.0	See you then. Hello, I'm Nick Gowin. Welcome to the Emmanuel Center here in London for this
0:39.0	Intelligence Square debate on whether the nuclear deal with Iran will or will not make the world a safer place.
0:46.8	The nuclear deal was reached in July between Iran and six world powers.
0:51.5	The US, UK, Germany, France, Russia and China.
0:56.7	Tehran will halt its nuclear weapons program in return, sanctions that have been crippling Iran's economy for more than a decade will be lifted
1:06.2	progressively.
1:07.2	Supporters of the deal say freeing up over $100 dollars worth of frozen assets will help bring Iran in from the global diplomatic
1:18.2	freezer.
1:19.2	Detractors led by Israel say the deal is a terrifying mistake.
1:24.4	So the motion for this debate, the nuclear deal with Iran won't make the world a safer place.
1:32.0	We have an excellent panel for you here arguing for the motion
1:36.0	Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control and Regional Security Program at
1:40.0	the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
1:45.1	Welcome.
1:46.1	And Professor Alan Dershovic, one of America's most celebrated lawyers.
1:50.3	His latest book is the Case Against the Iran Deal.
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