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Understanding Israel Palestine
This show is inspired by Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a local group that has advocated for 20 years for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. Our program offers interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to offer multiple perspectives, and to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by headline news.
Iran expert Trita Parsi discusses relations between Iran, Israel and the United States and examines the significance of last week’s assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Barbara Slavin, director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, assesses the effect of the assassination on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the impact of U.S. sanctions on the Iranian people. Both see the assassination as a challenge to the upcoming Biden administration and an effort to sabotage better relations between Iran and the United States.
