This is a very timely episode discussing the posture of the US vis-a-vis Iran and the effects of this week's bombing in Syria and the sanctions regime being continued by Biden. 

My guest this week is Assal Rad.  Dr. Rad is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Iranian-American Council.  She graduated with a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018.  Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, Independent, the National Interest, and Responsible Statecraft, and she has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, Al Jazeera, BBC Persian, and NPR.