Alan Eyre

Brandon will be live any minute now with Michael Young, who's waiting in the other studio.

And then Alan Eyre and Brandon would wrap it up for today.

That's it from me.

I hope you enjoyed the coverage and hopefully you won't see me again because that means strikes have begun.

That would be epic.

And then Trita, Michael Yan, and Alan Eyre.

Yes, Michael Yan is going to be a good one

because with Michael, I am talking about France and the human osmotic pressure.

Uh, Robert Harwood, he's the former deputy commander of US Central Command, a member of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America's Iran Policy Project.

Alan Eyre, the former Persian spokesman for the US State Department, and Aram Rastee, the analyst and journalist with The Gray Zone.

So a stellar panel to, uh, talk about what is turning out to be a very consequential week potentially.

So welcome to all of you.

Regime change in Moscow, regime change in Tehran.

And it's always the civilians who have to suffer the costs of these policies.

Yeah, Alan Eyre, um, in 2011, you became the first ever Persian language spokesperson of the US Department of State.

You were part of the Obama administration's negotiating team for the Iran nuclear deal.

We've got Nate Soares, and we have, uh, Chris Martenson.

And then Brandon takes over with Professor Hank, Hankey, Alan Eyre, JCPO, and negotiator Larry Johnson, and Charles Finfrog.

For now, we might even book more guests.

I'll see you in a couple of minutes, Philip.

I think if we didn't have that, I think you, you or we'd be looking at a nuclear power, um, right now in, uh, the Islamic world.

You mentioned the JCPOA, and we've had Alan Eyre, where he's a frequent guest, and he was one of the negotiators for the JCPOA.

Um, and, uh, he, you know, we, we talk a lot about sort of the alternative, but, um, you don't think that it was the ending of the JCPOA and Trump's first term that might have put us on this path, uh, to war? And can you just explain why?

No, because during the entire JCPOA, they were still building their ballistic missile capabilities to take a nuclear weapon, um, into Europe and, uh, to its neighbors.

And in the old building, which I'm very familiar with, and I know you are as well, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has rather unorthodox path to his position of prominence.

So we're gonna be talking for an hour or so on the issues of Iran and the current security situation, what has been, what could have been, what is, and what may be with Alan Eyre here on the Oasis.

Okay, so Alan, so first thing I want to talk about is unusually for a senior U.S. government official, you have a bachelor degree and you went to Dartmouth and studied literature, American literature, right? Was that the original thing or just literature in general?

Well, I would, first of all, dispute the characterization that I studied anything in college.

We've had literary quotations in both Persian and Latin, which is a first.

We've discussed the great Sufi poets and the nuclear negotiations.

I thank our guest, Alan Eyre, for such a broad-ranging, free and open discussion of what is the issue A, B, and C here in Washington.

It's been a good one.

Yeah

... as somebody who opposed at the time, but I'm now, having talked to Alan Eyre and talked to some of these-

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