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After the U.S. and Israel launched a war with Iran, questions remain about the Trump administration’s objectives. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss this, and more.
“My view is there’s probably no country on Earth with a greater gap between its rulers and its citizens than Iran,” Karim Sadjadpour, a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argued last night. “If you’re able to change the leaders in Iran and empower the people into some kind of a representative government—or, at a minimum, a government which represents its own national interests rather than this revolutionary ideology of 1979—that would be a geopolitical game changer for the United States, and a huge victory for President Trump.”
Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times; Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker; Sadjadpour; Nancy Youssef, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
Watch the full episode here.
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