Trump vs Iran: what comes after the end of the deal?
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🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We discuss Donald Trump’s latest foray into foreign policy (1:01) – in taking the US out of the Iran nuclear deal. Is it worthy of a Nobel peace prize, or the act of a maniac?
We also talk about the young Londoners who regularly take cocaine, despite the drug’s violent supply chain (13:20), and ask, are emojis ruining children’s abilities to communicate (22:04)?
With Christopher de Bellaigue, Dr Roham Alvandi, Alastair Thomas, Dr Adam Winstock, Lara Prendergast, and Professor Vyv Evans.
Presented by Isabel Hardman.
Produced by Cindy Yu.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Seller Plan from Berry Brothers and Rudd, collecting fine wines for future drinking. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to The Spectator Podcast. I'm Isabel Hartman. In this week's episode, we will be discussing Donald Trump's latest foray into foreign policy in taking the US out of the Iran nuclear deal. |
| 0:21.7 | Is this worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize or the act of a maniac? We'll also talk about the young |
| 0:26.8 | Londoners who regularly take cocaine despite the drug's violent supply chain and ask, |
| 0:31.5 | are emojis ruining children's abilities to communicate? On Tuesday, President Trump announced |
| 0:37.1 | his decision to take the US out of the Iran nuclear deal. |
| 0:40.3 | This decision has come despite appeals from Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and even our own Boris Johnson, for the US to stay in the deal. |
| 0:47.7 | Christopher de Belagg writes in this week's magazine that this was a gross miscalculation. |
| 0:52.6 | He joins me now, along with Dr. Roham Alvandi, |
| 0:55.5 | professor at the LSE, and author of Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah, the United States and Iran in the Cold War. |
| 1:02.2 | So, Christopher, what is the Iran nuclear deal and why does it matter? |
| 1:06.1 | The Iran nuclear deal was set up after torturous negotiations in order to prevent Iran from |
| 1:13.5 | getting to the position where it could make a nuclear bomb very quickly. Iran always said that it |
| 1:18.2 | never wanted a nuclear bomb, but evidence had sort of leaked out over the years to suggest that |
| 1:22.8 | there was quite a lot of debate in Iran about whether in fact that would be a good idea. |
| 1:28.1 | And they were certainly keeping their options open. |
| 1:30.5 | And so the idea of the nuclear deal was to prevent them from enriching enough uranium |
| 1:35.8 | to a sufficient level for them to be able to break out and achieve a bomb very quickly. |
| 1:41.5 | The Iranians, in return for this, what they regarded as a major concession, |
| 1:45.9 | secured the lifting of all nuclear-related sanctions from the rest of the world, including the |
| 1:51.5 | United States. And when it happened, this deal was bill billed as Iran's first step back |
| 1:59.5 | into international acceptance. It would foster a sense of cooperation |
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