"There's a lot of tough choices both sides need to make. But right now we're in uncharted waters - and that's a good thing - because the more we're talking the less we're fighting" says Reza Mara...
"This is not going to be easy. Nobody should be under and illusions, and frankly, I don't think anybody is under any illusions about how difficult this is going to be. That being said, its equall...
“The two most important words in everything [President Obama] said [during the State of the Union] regarding Iran are ‘if’ and ‘then’: ‘if’ the process...
“This is the beauty of when President Obama extends a hand – it really shows the hardliners for what they are because at the end of the day they don’t know how to respond to g...
“It’s going to take some time, some hard choices are going to have to be made by both sides, but the deal is certainly within reach and both sides are finally serious about finding ...
“A lot of analysts, myself included, dispute the notion that it was sanctions that brought Iran to the table,” Reza Marashi said. “We need to trade concessions on our end for ...
Research Director, National Iranian American Council (NIAC) , Reza Marashi, joins Connect the World to discusses nuclear talks with Iran, and the possible implication of U.S. Congress passing n...
“Reza Marashi, research director of the National Iranian American Council, an advocacy group that supports the nuclear talks, said it is political suicide for any Iranian official to acce...
“People who have skepticism need to be engaged and they need to be shown, not just through rhetoric, but through concrete actions, that there is a better way to provide security for every...
NIAC’s Research Director, Reza Marashi, and David Rohde, a columnist for Reuters and The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize winner, join Consider This host Antonio Mora to discuss the difficul...
“Iran has a similar mechanism in place with other countries, like China and India, and it hasn’t proven to be very effective to date. So in the bigger scheme of things this is not a...
As American and Iranian negotiators prepare to implement their historic interim nuclear deal, a handful of hawkish legislators are on the cusp of destroying the last remaining pathway to peace. ...