If you're going to use sanctions, you need to have a specific feasible objective that you're trying to reach.

And so just imposing sanctions on Iran and the hopes that someday they'll become the country we want them to be.

That's really ridiculous. And especially because Iran does have this history of feeling like that's exactly what the United States or Great Britain or Russia has tried to do to them.

And they will push back against it really hard and they've demonstrated that the regime was capable of surviving pretty severe sanctions.

This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pantzuit Politics, the home of grace-filled political conversations.

Hello everyone. Thank you so much for spending time with us today. We are going to process a couple of real traumas that the country is going through right now as we discuss the beginning of the George Floyd murder trial.

The shooting that took place in Boulder, Colorado, the legislation that passed regarding voting rights in Georgia. And then we are going to share a conversation to zoom out to the rest of the world with our friend Carrie Anderson, who is an expert on Western Asia.

Well, and as we always do with what's on our minds outside of politics and today we have a really fun advice question that came in.

We have two quick announcements before we get started. We are extending the deadline for our fan art contest. We're giving all of you through the holiday weekend to submit fan art. The new deadline is now Monday, April 5th. We've gotten such amazing designs so far.

And a reminder will be voting in April and the winner will get a free shirt with their design on it as well as commission from the sale of their design. You can go to Instagram and T public to sign up the links are in the show notes.

Spoiler, we're not going to be able to pick one. There's no way we're just going to pick one.

We also are really excited to announce our summer series this year will be about infrastructure. Do we have some like exciting music?

Some of you that we could put in here.

Maybe the sound of like banging and hammering.

We're going to talk about sewers and water and electricity and childcare and just a really broad discussion of the state of infrastructure in America and where we could be going from here.

And we want to make sure that we have a really broad discussion that includes a variety of perspectives.

You know, both of us right now live in places without a lot of public transportation.

We live in rural or suburban areas. We don't want to miss anything because everything about who you are and where you live influences the way you think about infrastructure.

So we are really excited to announce an infrastructure contributor program. We want to pay some of you to think with us about infrastructure.

All of the details can be found at the link in our show notes. It is a project that'll take you about 10 hours to work on with us.

We are trying to compensate people well for their time. We're excited to work with some of you on your ideas.

So check out that link and let us know if you'd like to be an extension of our team for a few weeks as we prepare that series.

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