For nearly a decade, Iran’s quest for nuclear capabilities has topped global security concerns in Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv. Why is a nuclear armed Iran considered so dangerous to U.S. and Israeli interests, and what’s prevented Iran from reaching a deal year after year?
Featured Guests
- Yukiya Amano, Director General, IAEA
- Trita Parsi, Founder and President, National Iranian American Council
- Cliff Kupchan, Eurasia Foundation
- Irshad Manji, New York University
- Robin Wright, Author, Rock the Casbah
- Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations
- Suzanne DiMaggio, The Asia Society
- Bill Kristol, The Weekly Standard
- Jonathan Tepperman, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
- David Ignatius, Columnist, The Washington Post
- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
- Robert Kagan, The Brookings Institution
- Thenassis Cambanis, The Atlantic
- General Richard Meyers, Former Head of Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Donald Rumsfeld, Former Secretary of Defense
- Barney Frank, U.S. Congressman
- Micah Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations
- Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute
- Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy Magazine
- Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Princeton University
- Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe
What to Read
- The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by David Crist
- A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran by Trita Parsi
- The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and U.S. Policy by Robin Wright
- The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir by Seyed Hossein Mousavian
- Iran and the Bomb: Solving the Persian Puzzle by Foreign Affairs, Gideon Rose, Jonathan Tepperman