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Episode Synopsis
👉full episode: https://bit.ly/UME-S1E39
►Are U.S. sanctions on Iran working?
►Are U.S. sanctions against Iran actually working against the United States?
►Have sanctions empowered and emboldened Iran's Revolutionary Guard… to the point that they were ready for war with the United States?
►Did sanctions help Iran's regime crush the Mahsa Amini protests?
►Are sanctions a one-way ratchet - easy to impose, hard to lift?
►Iran's economic decline - due to sanctions or mismanagement?
►If not sanctions, then what?
🚩About my guest:
Dr. Vali Nasr is professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. and the co-director of the Rethinking Iran Initiative. He has advised the U.S. President, Secretary of State & senior members of Congress about foreign policy.
He is the author and co-author of many books, including the following:
The Dispensable Nation - American Foreign Policy in Retreat (which we discussed in this program), and
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare - which we discuss in this interview.
🖱️Support Our Program:
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Adel Aali
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Host, History Behind News Podcast
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✅Image credits:
►image titled "Iran's Ruling Class"
By Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150245544
image background trimmed
►image titled "Iran's Middle Class"
By Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70147469
🎶Music attributions:
1. Opening and closing music of the program:
Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.
Music available on at https://freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/125654/
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This music has been cut in shorter pieces and its volume has been adjusted in different portions of our program.
3. Background music:
The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music
promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified.
►Are U.S. sanctions on Iran working?
►Are U.S. sanctions against Iran actually working against the United States?
►Have sanctions empowered and emboldened Iran's Revolutionary Guard… to the point that they were ready for war with the United States?
►Did sanctions help Iran's regime crush the Mahsa Amini protests?
►Are sanctions a one-way ratchet - easy to impose, hard to lift?
►Iran's economic decline - due to sanctions or mismanagement?
►If not sanctions, then what?
🚩About my guest:
Dr. Vali Nasr is professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. and the co-director of the Rethinking Iran Initiative. He has advised the U.S. President, Secretary of State & senior members of Congress about foreign policy.
He is the author and co-author of many books, including the following:
The Dispensable Nation - American Foreign Policy in Retreat (which we discussed in this program), and
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare - which we discuss in this interview.
🖱️Support Our Program:
We appreciate your financial support of our program, for any amount you like. And thank you.
Adel Aali
Host, Scholars Unravel Middle East
Host, History Behind News Podcast
🚩Subscribe to our YouTube channel
✅Image credits:
►image titled "Iran's Ruling Class"
By Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150245544
image background trimmed
►image titled "Iran's Middle Class"
By Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70147469
🎶Music attributions:
1. Opening and closing music of the program:
Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.
Music available on at https://freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/125654/
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This music has been cut in shorter pieces and its volume has been adjusted in different portions of our program.
3. Background music:
The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music
promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified.
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