Nader Hashemi

And thank you.

And joining us now, Nader Hashemi, the director of the Alawid Center for Muslim Christian Understanding and a professor of Middle Eastern Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

He's the author of The People Reloaded, The Green Movement, The Struggle for Iran's Future, and Sectarianization, Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East.

Welcome to Background Briefing, Nader Hashemi.

Thanks, Ian, for the invite.

Well, thanks for joining us.

When that will break, if it will break, it remains to be seen, but I don't think we should be holding our breath, hoping that there's going to be some chasm within the Republican Party that would perhaps shake up American politics.

I don't see that happening.