The New Deal - Iran & its nuclear program, with Mark Dubowitz
b'What is happening right now in Vienna with the negotiations over the future of Iran\\u2019s nuclear program? What was the significance of Putin\\u2019s recent trip to Iran? What is the nature of China\\u2019s relationship with Iran, and what can it tell us about Beijing\\u2019s grand strategy? And if Iran continues to build its nuclear program, what is Israel\\u2019s Plan B?\\n\\nThese are some of the questions we explore with Mark Dubowitz, who is the CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC. We sat down with while we\\u2019re in Israel.\\n\\nMark has advised the Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and testified more than twenty times before the U.S. Congress and foreign legislatures.\\n\\nA former venture capitalist and technology executive, Mark has a master\\u2019s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University\\u2019s School of Advanced International Studies.\\n\\nAccording to The New York Times, \\u201cMark Dubowitz\\u2019s campaign to draw attention to what he saw as the flaws in the Iran nuclear deal has taken its place among the most consequential ever undertaken by a Washington think tank leader.\\u201d\\nAccording to The Atlantic, \\u201cDubowitz has been helping design and push forward sanctions on Iran\\u2026establishing the FDD as D.C.\\u2019s ground zero for research and policy recommendations aimed at highlighting and fixing what Dubowitz saw as the flaws in the nuclear agreement.\\u201d'