The attempted assassination of Salman Rushdie could play into some important decisive moments in Iran's political history. Robin Wright is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and a senior fellow at Not One, but two Washington think tanks. She says any war between Iran and the United States would be more difficult and more costly with more consequences than either of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Was never about Salman Rushdie. Journalist Robin Wright explains.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Hady Mawajdeh and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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