The World Next Week: Iran’s Nuclear Program and Syria’s Civil War

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the UN inspectors visiting Iran for a second time; the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunis; and the convening of G20 foreign ministers in Mexico.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/editorial/2012/20120216_T…]

The highlights:

Reuters tracks a meeting between IAEA chief Yukiya Amano with the Iranian embassy in Vienna, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria compares the current conflict between Israel and Iran to the Cold War. Foreign Policy’s Colum Lynch describes France and Turkey’s push to help Syria, and Bloomberg argues  that the UN Security Council vote on Syria reveals that the UN may have “more gum than teeth.” CFR’s Stewart Patrick previews the G20 meeting’s priorities, and the State Department outlines what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hopes to accomplish while in Mexico.