About this episode

The episode discusses the failures of diplomacy between the US and Iran, along with other topics like Japan's intelligence centralization and a book by Sally Hayden.

Negah Angha and John Everard on the US and Iran’s failure to give diplomacy a chance. Then: Japan aims to centralise intelligence and French parents bring kids to work. Plus: Sally Hayden’s book  This Is Also a Love Story . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Guests: Negah Angha, John Everard

Topics covered

• diplomacy
• US-Iran relations
• intelligence
• parenting
• literature

Keywords

• diplomacy
• Iran
• US
• Japan
• France
• intelligence
• Sally Hayden
• book

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Japan, France

Books & works: This Is Also a Love Story

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