Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to speak on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Pezeshkian’s speech comes in the wake of mixed messages from President Trump, who, in his speech on Tuesday, mused about whether he should “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal to end the war isn’t soon reached, only to reveal later that U.S. and Iranian delegations had engaged in “very productive” talks for several hours during the gathering.
Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with security analyst Jim Walsh, senior research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program, about the prospects for peace with Iran.
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