What to Know About U.S.-Iran Negotiations
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We have two very interestingly placed people, I think, with us to discuss what feels like a turning point in the Iran war. |
| 0:23.0 | Turning point because the U.S. and Iran have both offered ceasefire plans, though they are |
| 0:28.4 | quite the opposite of each other in important ways. |
| 0:31.2 | Turning point because reporting indicates President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu |
| 0:36.4 | may now want different things, an off-ramp in Trump's |
| 0:39.9 | prolonged fighting in Netanyahu's. Turning point because the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon is seriously |
| 0:47.3 | deepening. Turning point because the new Supreme Leader of Iran either will or won't keep the loyalty |
| 0:53.0 | of the Revolutionary Guard. That's who has all |
| 0:55.9 | the guns, right? The regime could rise or fall on that. And turning point, perhaps, because the U.S. |
| 1:02.6 | is sending thousands more troops to the region, with this threat from White House Press Secretary |
| 1:08.0 | Caroline Levitt, if Iran rejects the U.S. ceasefire terms. |
| 1:12.9 | President Trump, that is not bluff, and he is prepared to unleash hell. Iran should not |
| 1:17.7 | miscalculate again. Well, sometimes he bluffs, but there's that. And all of that is a lot, right? |
| 1:25.1 | Let's discuss. With us now is Kian Tajbax, international relations professor at NYU, |
| 1:32.6 | also a fellow of the committee on global thought, as they call it, at Columbia University. |
| 1:38.0 | Part of his background is that he was arrested during Iran's Green Movement protest in 2009. And you may have heard his name in the |
| 1:47.3 | news a number of years ago when he was released as part of the Iran nuclear deal under President |
| 1:54.2 | Obama. He is also author of the books, The Promise of the City, and creating local democracy |
| 2:00.6 | in Iran, state building and the politics of the city, and creating local democracy in Iran, state building, and the politics |
| 2:03.2 | of decentralization. And also with us, William Pristo, reporter for The Guardian, based in |
| 2:09.0 | Beirut, focusing on human rights investigations and migration issues. So William and Keon, |
| 2:15.3 | thank you both very much for coming on with us. Welcome to WNYC. |
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