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“The problem is that, if you give them this deal, you’re at risk of embedding this regime by relieving it of the economic pressures that it currently faces,” the staff writer Steve Coll says about the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. Coll joins Laura Secor, a New Yorker contributor and longtime reporter on Iran, and host Dorothy Wickenden on this week’s Political Scene podcast to talk about the negotiations and the complicating impact of Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Tuesday. They discuss the ways in which Iran has changed since President Hassan Rouhani took office, in 2013, and the geopolitical complexities involved in making a deal with its leadership.
“The fact that we have a temporary convergence of interests over ISIS does not suggest that we have a longer-term meeting of the minds or an ultimate goal in the region that would be congruent with Iran’s,” Secor says.
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