Two recent guests on Conversations with History analyzed U.S. relations with Iran in light of Iran's presidential elections and the democracy movement that emerged in its wake. The first interview is with former CIA operative Robert Baer and the other with Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Baer draws on his 25 year career in the CIA to conclude that Iran has used terrorism and the failure of the U.S. in the Iraq War to consolidate its power in the region and assume the role of regional hegemon that the U.S. must deal with. Sadjadpour draws on his mastery of the internal politics of Iran to argue that the U.S must approach the regime with utmost caution neither undermining nor openly supporting the democracy movement. Here are the two inteviews:
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