Letters and Politics

Obstacles to US-Iranian Peace & The Biden’s Foreign Policy Picks

Part 1 – Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy and National Security Picks

Guest: Jonathan Guyer is Managing Editor at The American Prospect. He has written for the New Yorker, NYT, and Paris Review, and reported from the Middle East for six years. His latest piece is The Lucrative Afterlife of a Trump Official: Trump’s former appointees are profiting from their time in the White House—H.R. McMaster most of all.

Part 2 – The Historical Obstacles on Reaching Peace Between Iran-US-Israel and the Meaning of the Assassination of a Top Iranian Scientist

Guest: Mansour Farhang is a retired professor of international relations at Bennington College. He was revolutionary Iran’s first ambassador to the United Nations, resigning in protest when the Khomeini regime refused to accept the U.N. Commission of Inquiry’s recommendation to release American hostages in Teheran. He is the author of U.S. Imperialism: From the Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution; and, with William Dorman, The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference.

photo: Samuel Penn 

Playlist

Artist Song Album Label
Herbie HancockFat Mama (Remastered Album Version)Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. RecordingsRhino/Warner Bros.
Duke EllingtonBlack and Tan FantasyBlack and Tan FantasyHotJazz
Herbie HancockFat Mama (Remastered Album Version)Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. RecordingsRhino/Warner Bros.