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The real problem, of course, is that we've had three years now

of bad blood billion built up.

Everything from Gossam solomani is killing to sanctions pressure,

to rocket attacks on US forces operating in a rocket in Syria,

attacks on shipping and potential attacks on US vessels operating the Persian Gulf.

So there's a lot of bad blood to add to what we've already had building up.

And so I think the real question is, when we come to 2021,

will there be political space to have those kinds of conversations

that frankly we've not really been able to have more than once or twice in the last 40 years?

That's going to be the real challenge. That's what's going to make a lot of this difficult.

I'm Margaret Taylor and this is the LawFair podcast, June 8, 2020.

On May 27, the Trump administration announced that it was with drawing sanctions waivers

that had allowed Russian, Chinese, and European companies to work with Iran

on sensitive Iranian nuclear sites in support of the goals of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.

In this podcast, I talked about what it really means with two experts.

Peter Harrell, an attorney and adjunct senior fellow at the center for a new American security,

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