Jason Rezaian
speaker
511 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 May
Jason Rezaian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, it is ridiculous.
If those are the plans, then there's not real plans.
Then there was no plan.
There was no friggin' plan.
No plan.
What they should know is that it is incredibly brutal to its own population.
It's capable of meting out chaos and violence to people in the region.
And in isolated instances, people on U.S.
soil, on European soil.
but that ultimately this regime is not a match for the United States and our allies, right?
I mean, I'm not going to call it a paper tiger because you can see that it's holding its own, but they fight asymmetrically.
Sometimes we say that that is, you know, a sign that they are, you know, a sponsor of terror.
And, you know,
I'm not going to get into those designations, but really what it means is if you force them into conventional ways of dealing with problems, they can't really do it.
The future of that country has to be in the hands of the people of that country.
The hands of the people of that country are tied in multiple ways.
And over a 25-year period that we've recognized their desire for change, going back to the late 1990s when they elected Mohammed Khatami, a reformer who espoused a much more open approach to the world, every time they've had the opportunity in these elections, they've gone for the person who says, we want to open up the society.
Our path towards success is opening up.
If you're looking at it on balance, we haven't really done anything to support those aspirations.
And I would argue that every time we've gotten involved, it's kind of set that clock back.
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