Iran & the US escalation game – What can Europe do?
In this episode, live from Brussels, Ellie Geranmayeh is standing in for our host Mark Leonard to discuss Iran’s further withdrawal from the 2015 Nuclear Agreement.
After the Iran Strategy Meeting meeting, she met with Hossein Mousavian (Princeton University), Ilan Goldenberg (Center for a New American Security) and Nasser Hadian (University of Teheran) to analyse the responses coming from the US and European governments, in particular from France. By marking the 40th anniversary of the Iran Hostage Crisis, they look back on how this has shaped the Iran-US relations in the past 4 years. Moreover, after one year, how has the re-imposition of the US sanction impacted Iran domestically?
This podcast was recorded on 6 November 2019.
Bookshelf:
- “The United States Overthrew Iran’s Last Democratic Leader” by Roham Alvandi & Mark J. Gasiorowski
- “U.S. Maximum Pressure Meets Iranian Maximum Pressure” by International Crisis Group
- HBO Series “Our boys”