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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The View from Iran

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Washington, News, Politics, President, Wickenden, Wnyc, Barack, Obama, Lizza

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Laura Secor joins Steve Coll and Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the current international climate from the Iranian perspective.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about

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politics. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of the New Yorker.

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On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress

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about the potential nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran.

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The greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.

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President Obama, who did not meet with him, had this to say in reply.

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