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Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer on 'Reviving the Peace Process' (TRANSCRIPT)

In an ideal world, if we were writing this up as a scenario we would say let’s put this all on hold, and everyone stays away happily and nothing changes for the worse, and we pick it up perhaps when everyone is stronger. But status quos are not status quos and people know that. They either get better – or more commonly – they actually get worse because they are left neglected. I fear that this status quo, over the next 10 or 11 months if there isn’t some very significant policy activity, will deteriorate into violence.

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Interview with Jalil Roshandel: `The Iranian regime can't continue`

Today, Dr. Steven Spiegel interviewed Jalil Roshandel, Associate Professor and Director of Security Studies at East Carolina University, about the current protests in Iran and what steps should be taken by the international community in the future. Roshandel stressed the West's need to stay away from economic sanctions and focus instead on political sanctions.  Economic sanctions would have the biggest affect on the same people who are protesting in the streets rather than the Iranian government. Therefore, the United States, along with European countries, should focus on offering aid such as scholarships and political pressure.

Listen to the interview here.

 

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