LISTEN: Former US negotiator with Iran – Trump falling into the Vietnam trap
When President Trump measures success by counting how many Iranian leaders the US and Israel have killed or how many Iranian boats or missile launchers have been destroyed, he’s looking at the “wrong metric”, argues a former US special envoy to Iran, Rob Malley.
Malley told Al Jazeera host Steve Clemons that the only way out of this war is “a settlement that respects our core interests, but also theirs”.
To calculate the odds of such a deal being reached, Malley said, psychologists may be more useful than experts because “it really depends on the mindset of President Trump.”
LISTEN: Former US negotiator with Iran – Trump falling into the Vietnam trap
When President Trump measures success by counting how many Iranian leaders the US and Israel have killed or how many Iranian boats or missile launchers have been destroyed, he’s looking at the “wrong metric”, argues a former US special envoy to Iran, Rob Malley.
Malley told Al Jazeera host Steve Clemons that the only way out of this war is “a settlement that respects our core interests, but also theirs”.
To calculate the odds of such a deal being reached, Malley said, psychologists may be more useful than experts because “it really depends on the mindset of President Trump.”
Link to full audio -
https://www.aljazeera.com/audio/podcasts/the-bottom-line-al-jazeera