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Iran under pressure

Is it just sabre-rattling or should we worry about the war of words between Washington and Tehran? François Picard’s panel argues over the impact of sanctions both on the regime and ordinary Iranians.

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Meir JAVEDANFAR. Middle East Analyst, Middle East Economic and Political Analysis Company (from Tel Aviv);
Muhammad SAHIMI. Lead Political Columnist, Tehran Bureau (from Los Angeles);
Ali FATEMI. Professor, American School of Business and Economics;
Rouzbeh PARSI. Research fellow, European Union Institute for Security Studies.

Watch the second part here.

Presenter

François Picard

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Comments (2)

Islamist republic's elections are fake

by Anonyme - 04/01/2012 - 14:27

Everybody knows that Parsi is Islamic Republic's lobbist. They do lobby for IRI and it is really sad seeing them having the possibility of appearing on western media

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Agree with the professor, but he's missing something

by Anonyme - 04/01/2012 - 00:03

As he points out himself, in agreement with the others, confrontation is what the iranian government wants, even if it's just for the impression at home.
And he is ok with playing along, doing exactly that which he thinks is what iran wants them to do, and ready to let this turn into a war if iran would chicken out.
The rest of the panel would like to avoid that. They don't want to give in to the provocations, and hope that (even more) sanctions, the economic situation and the lack of an enemy threat to deamonize will give the more sane people within iran a chance to turn the weel around.

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