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Chapter 1: What recent events in Iran have shaped its current political landscape?
The newly 80-year-old president of the United States is in France for the G7 summit. Reporters keep asking about the peace deal he says he'll be signing with Iran this Friday, mostly because no one knows the deets.
He gave them $1.7 billion in cash, green cash, from banks.
But the president wants to talk about Barack Obama?
They tried to bribe their way out of it. And you know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch.
Why so salty, sir? Oh, J.K. Rowling, I know why. President Trump didn't achieve any of his objectives in the war with Iran, a war that's cost Americans maybe $100 billion so far? And Trump might end up giving Iran $300 billion to settle this war. Compare that to Obama's... $1.7 billion and hundreds of millions of dollars... Iran won the war. Coming up on Today Explained from Vox.
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Chapter 2: How did President Trump's approach impact the U.S.-Iran relationship?
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I mean, I see this. It's so incredible. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Boom.
Okay. It's today explained. Nargis Bajoli recently co-wrote a piece titled Iran's New Grand Strategy in Foreign Affairs. Here's a sample. Rather than breaking Iran, the crucible of war has transformed it in unanticipated ways. To survive and establish new strategic advantages, the Islamic Republic had to adapt and innovate, changing how it waged war, ran the state, and managed society.
We wanted to hear more, and we started with the obvious.
The United States is taking an L. Yeah, well, I think part of the problem is we didn't really ever know what this war was about. There were a few days when this war was about, let's bring freedom to the Iranian people.
To the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand.
Then there were a few days when this war was about, you know, the death blows to the Islamic Republic.
A vicious group of very hard- Terrible people.
And then they were also, you know, like, this is going to prevent Iran from making a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again, they can never have a nuclear weapon. Even though in June we supposedly obliterated their nuclear weapons program.
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Chapter 3: What changes have occurred in Iran's governance after the war?
They're figuring out ways to be able to sort of co-live with them into the future without Iran being isolated like it was in the past. That's a huge difference. The Persian Gulf region is fundamentally transformed. It will no longer be a place where the Americans can do whatever they want. It will now be a place where Iran will reassert its hegemony over that region.
Iran sees itself as having won this war. And because this generation is bolder, it's actually going to be like, we're not going to budge. If that means your economy is going to hurt more, fine. You've been hurting our economy for 47 years. We're just going to play a game of chicken and see who blinks first. That's this new generation that we're dealing with.
Nargis Bajoli is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Now that we've heard about the Iranian government, we want to hear about the Iranian people, and we will when we're back.
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