Top Iran Expert Karim Sadjadpour: Tehran May Wait Out Trump Admin

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🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this week's episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with top Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the state of Iran's economy, its domestic politics, and its diplomatic posture vis a vis the West. Sadjadpour offers insight into the evolving dynamics within Tehran's leadership structure and growing discontent in Iranian society, including whether unrest or revolution may be on the horizon. He also assesses the impact of the U.S.'s withdrawal from the nuclear deal, and explains why Iran's medium-term strategy may be to "wait out" the Trump administration.

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0:38.2	There was that period of about a year and a half after the nuclear deal was signed before
0:43.0	Donald Trump was elected president.
0:45.0	When it was kind of a test period, you know, can Iran's economy take off the impact of
0:50.8	external sanctions and, you know, US-Iran tension absolutely casts a cloud over the
0:56.2	Iranian economy.
1:00.0	So how do the Iranian look at US policy today?
1:03.7	How do they think about the Trump administration?
1:06.1	You know, it seems that the Iranian strategy is essentially to try to wait out the Trump
1:11.8	administration.
1:12.8	Wait what happens with the midterm election.
1:14.8	So stay in the nuclear deal until then?
1:18.0	There's kind of a conventional wisdom that believes that Iran is going to stay in the
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