Unresolved: The Iran Threat

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Iran’s regional role has changed post-October 7, but is Iran a bigger global threat than we think? In partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, National Security Council and State Department veterans will debate in our Unresolved format Biden’s Iran diplomacy, Iran's use of proxies in the Middle East, its nuclear ambitions, and whether Iran now poses a threat to the global order. Michael Doran, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2	Welcome everybody to Open to Debate. I'm John Don Van and for this one we're in front of a live audience at the Washington campus of the Council on Foreign Relations, our sponsor and our partner in this episode. Where the subject is, Iran, a nation, a state, a challenge to its region, to U.S. interests,
0:48.2	to its own people.
0:50.1	Before we get to the debate itself, I wanted to bring the president of the Council on Foreign Relations
0:53.9	Michael Fromman to the stage.
0:55.6	We're excited to be doing this one in partnership with C.F.R.
0:58.7	It's the inaugural debate and what's going to be a series of debates on foreign policy we'll do together.
1:03.3	Michael, tell us a little bit about what this partnership means to you.
1:06.7	As a nonpartisan institution that works to provide fact-based analytics to people to help people understand what's going on in the world,
1:16.0	how it affects them here in the United States,
1:18.0	being a partner with Open to Debate, which I know is also committed to being
1:22.0	nonpartisan, fact-based, and really focused
1:25.9	on public education. For us, we're very excited about it. It seems like a good alignment of interest.
1:30.5	And our format actually centers argument and there's an argument that there's too much argument
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