I wasn't saying china wis n in. My whole point was, china has one of the world's worst governments. This has nothing to do with other bad regimes. I think we simply need to pull back and look at the stances which push iron into a corner when its legitimate security interests are reviled. When it is put in a little corner and told to have no regional interests, concerns and ambitions. And those are not the ways of the iranian people even at to see their government responding. Which is why they voted overwhelmingly for a moderate who backed the nuclear deal with the united states. Because eron wants to come in from the cold. Its leaders have concluded that
In this debate from the Intelligence Squared archive, we head back to 2020, when we invited journalist and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, academic and writer Azadeh Moaveni, the Saudi political analyst Salman al-Ansari and former Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan to debate the motion: Iran is Not Our Enemy. The discussion touches on many issues that hold relevance in the current moment, ranging from the effectiveness of sanctions to the capabilities of nuclear-armed nations. The debate was chaired by the BBC's Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet.
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