Robert Malley
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322 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Robert Malley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It just doesn't work.
It just doesn't work.
I mean, you know, that's not the way regimes think.
They don't think in this arithmetic way, you know, oh, we're suffering more now, now we're going to give up.
Sometimes to the contrary, they think this shows that the U.S.
is determined to topple the regime.
desperate and we will, if it means, you know, tightening the belts of the people over whom we rule, we will do that.
But we're not going to give up.
We're not going to surrender.
We're not going to collapse.
So you still hear people today sort of what we call in the U.S.
the neocons or the hardliners who are saying, oh, if you just maintain the maximum pressure sanctions for another few weeks, another few months, they're going to collapse.
The regime is so brittle.
There's no indication of it.
The other point I'd make, sanctions hurt, but they tend to hurt people that the US claims it wants to help without hurting the people that says it wants to get rid of.
So if you're an Iranian leader, a member of the Revolutionary Guard, member of the elite, again, you're probably not doing as well as if there were no sanctions, but you find ways of circumventing it.
And then with the black market, you maybe find ways of getting out of it some profit.
The people who are suffering are the middle class, the lower class, the people who in theory
proponents of regime change are purport to help.
There's a basic flaw at the heart of sanctions theory.
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