This week, Kelley, Barbara, and Dan talk about Yemen: how it was so easy to get into this war six years ago but so difficult for Washington to get out. Then we talk to Trita Parsi, author of Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy and Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He talks to us about the damage done after President Trump ripped the U.S. out of the nuclear deal with Iran (JCPOA), and how President Biden’s attempts to get back into it are going, despite resistance from the Gulf States, Israel, and the hawks in Washington.

Trita’s latest article in Foreign Policy magazine:

Why Mohammed bin Salman Suddenly Wants to Talk to Iran

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