Who's Afraid of a Free Iran? | Jonathan Schanzer

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Eylon Levy interviews Jonathan Schanzer about the complexities surrounding Western support for the people of Iran and the implications of regime change.

Send us Fan Mail Support the podcast and keep it independent. 👉Subscribe on Patreon for $10/month: World leaders say they stand with the people of Iran. But when the Islamic Republic is finally under real pressure, many of the same voices suddenly want de-escalation. What exactly are Western leaders so afraid of: a wider war, or the fall of the regime itself? In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Jonathan Schanzer, Executive Director of the Foundation for Defense o...

People in this episode

Host: Eylon Levy

Guest: Jonathan Schanzer

Topics covered

• Iran
• politics
• Western leaders
• regime change
• international relations

Keywords

• Iran
• Western leaders
• regime
• de-escalation
• war
• politics
• Schanzer

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Places: Iran, Islamic Republic, Western leaders

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