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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Sorry Legacy of Our Policy Toward Iran
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Agustina Vergara Cid and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Iran’s recent attempts — on American soil — to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a journalist and critic of the Iranian regime, and John Bolton, a former U.S. National Security Advisor, as well as the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, whose murder Iran has advocated for over 30 years. They discuss the philosophic nature of the Iranian regime and how decades of failed U.S. policy has emboldened Iran and other enemies.
Among the topics covered:
The history of Iran’s fatwa against Rushdie;Alinejad’s activism and Irania...