Meddling or Bargaining? – Emmanuel Macron’s Iran Initiative
This week, ECFR director Mark Leonard discusses with experts Ellie Geranmayeh and Julien Barnes-Dacey the French president Emmanuel Macron's bold initiative: Europeans are now to explore a credit line for Iran to entice the sanctions-battered country to keep abiding by an international nuclear deal. But the US and president Trump are sceptical.
Bookshelf:
- “Crashed” by Adam Tooze
- “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” by Yuval Harari
- “Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History” by Richard J. Evans
The podcast was recorded on 6 September 2019.