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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week Bombshell welcomes Suzanne Maloney of Brookings to chat all things Iran. And because we love our listeners so much, we extended the discussion for the whole show to consider legality, effectiveness, process, and what happens next. Also, Megxit. Duh.

Links

Jonathan Marcus, “Qasem Soleimani: Why Kill Him Now and What Happens Next?” BBC, January 3, 2020
Agnes Callamard, “The Targeted Killing of General Soleimani: Its Lawfulness and Why It Matters,” Just Security, January 8, 2020
Loveday Morris, “US Leaders Rally Behind Tattered Iran Deal, Ignoring Trump’s Call to Ditch It,” Washington Post, January 10, 2020
Brian Naylor, “Trump Administration Announces More Economic Sanctions Against Iran,” NPR, January 10, 2020
Rick Noack, Armand Emamdjomeh, and Joe Fox, “How U.S. Sanctions Are Paralyzing the Iranian Economy,” Washington Post, January 10, 2020
Ian Talley and Isabel Coles, “US Warns Iraq It Risks Losing Access to Key Bank Account if. Troops Told to Leave,” Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2020
Robert Jervis, “On the Current Confrontation with Iran,” War on the Rocks, January 9, 2020
Suzanne Maloney, “The Lull in Hostilities Between Iran and the U.S. Is Just Escalation in Disguise,” Politico, January 11, 2020

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:11.8	I'm Lauren DeYoung-Shallman. And I'm Rada Aingar. And we are recording on Saturday, January 10th, 11th, something like that.
0:21.0	January 11th, Aaron. Yeah, 11th. something like that. January 11th, Aaron.
0:22.4	Yeah, 11th.
0:23.5	Which means that for me, it is the 11th day of dry January.
0:27.0	So I'm going to ask you ladies what you're drinking in the hopes that it's more interesting than anything I've had to drink this month.
0:33.5	I am drinking a cup of coffee that has vanilla vodka in it.
0:38.7	Did you microwave that coffee?
0:40.7	Yep.
0:41.1	Yeah.
0:42.6	It was made today, but it's microwave.
0:44.8	Well, that's good.
0:45.8	That's a start.
0:48.0	I'm drinking fancy Swiss Miss hot chocolate with a little bit of whiskey in it.
0:53.7	But it's fancy. It's dark Swiss
0:55.5	Christmas chocolate. Nice. I highly recommend it. So one of my many experiments during
1:01.4	dry January is to add bitters just to like various kinds of fizzy water, which does make
1:07.9	them more interesting and delicious. I does. I have to say.
1:11.2	So I am drinking some sort of Italian soda, like a lime, mint, Italian soda with pasteyard bitters.
1:17.7	It's delicious.
1:19.0	It's, um, would be better with gin.
1:21.4	But yep, here we, here we are.
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