Why Iran Won’t Buckle To US Demands (S01E07)

Few countries would accept the US terms.

Even Venezuela didn’t. Cuba hasn’t. Vietnam didn’t. North Korea didn’t. Maybe a hundred years ago, US gunboat diplomacy would work.

But countries are now intensely nationalistic. America is trying to humiliate Iran, and that’s not a formula for diplomatic success.

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