Jason Rezaian on Peace Talks: If What Iran Is Offering Similar to Obama’s JCPOA, Then It Doesn‘t Seem Like a Major Step Forward

RUSH EXCERPT:REZAIAN: "I, Jake, I think the thing that people need to understand first and foremost is it‘s the same group of people. Yes, the supreme leader was killed and many other top officials were killed, but they are all part of the same apparatus, adhere to the same ideology, want to defend the existence of the same system? I think the idea that that they might be more amenable to a deal right now is that they‘ve sustained incredible damage, not only to their military, but to civilian infrastructure as well as to the oil and gas infrastructure. So they have a lot of compelling reasons to want to end the kinetic portion of this conflict. But to, to beth‘s earlier point, if the, if what the Iranians are offering are similar, to what the jcpoa was succeeding in doing it doesn‘t seem like a particularly, major step forward. And I think the one thing that I always want to harp on in these, these discussions is, you know, we were sold this war as a war of liberation for the Iranian people, after a massacre of thousands, potentially tens of thousands of Iranians in January, they don‘t figure into these conversations at all. And while we‘re at it, there‘s six Americans being wrongfully detained in Iran right now. What are we doing for them? Last week, ahead of the first round of talks in islamabad the U.S. Negotiating team said that they would bring that up in the negotiations. I don‘t see any sign that that happened."

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Jason Rezaian on Peace Talks: If What Iran Is Offering Similar to Obama’s JCPOA, Then It Doesn‘t Seem Like a Major Step Forward‘Many other top officials were killed, but they are all part of the same apparatus, adhere to the same ideology’News & Politics,InternationalRUSH EXCERPT:REZAIAN: "I, Jake, I think the thing that people need to understand first and foremost is it‘s the same group of people. Yes, the supreme leader was killed and many other top officials were killed, but they are all part of the same apparatus, adhere to the same ideology, want to defend the existence of the same system? I think the idea that that they might be more amenable to a deal right now is that they‘ve sustained incredible damage, not only to their military, but to civilian infrastructure as well as to the oil and gas infrastructure. So they have a lot of compelling reasons to want to end the kinetic portion of this conflict. But to, to beth‘s earlier point, if the, if what the Iranians are offering are similar, to what the jcpoa was succeeding in doing it doesn‘t seem like a particularly, major step forward. And I think the one thing that I always want to harp on in these, these discussions is, you know, we were sold this war as a war of liberation for the Iranian people, after a massacre of thousands, potentially tens of thousands of Iranians in January, they don‘t figure into these conversations at all. And while we‘re at it, there‘s six Americans being wrongfully detained in Iran right now. What are we doing for them? Last week, ahead of the first round of talks in islamabad the U.S. Negotiating team said that they would bring that up in the negotiations. I don‘t see any sign that that happened."Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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