Najam Discusses Iran-US Talks on VOA
Prof. Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston Univeristy, considers a US-Iran nuclear deal inevitable, but not irreversible.
Speaking on the Voice of America (VOA) Urdu Service news show Independence Avenue, Dean Najam argued that the very fact that the deal’s critics are now taking extreme risks in their opposition tactics is itself an indicator of how real they consider the prospects of a deal to be. In many ways these very tactics have placed both the Obama administration and the Iranian leadership in a corner where they need to arrive at a deal even more than before.
However, he pointed out that while a possible deal will change the nature of the relationship between the two countries, it will not reverse it entirely and will certainly not do so immediately. “These two countries have spent deacades demonizing each other” said Dean Adil Najam, “and it will take a lot of work from each of them to ever come to real normalcy in relations.”