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Can diplomacy avert a US-Iran war?

Can diplomacy avert a US-Iran war?

Islamic regime faces ‘a reckoning’

The Rachman Review · Richard Martin

February 5, 202627m 13s

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Show Notes

Andrew England, the FT’s Middle East editor, speaks to Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, about Iran’s escalating crisis. Can diplomacy prevent a war between the Trump administration and Tehran? What are the prospects for reform of the increasingly unpopular Islamic regime in Iran? Clips: Channel 4 News; CBS


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