This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Henry Rome, deputy head of research at the Eurasia Group and a longtime watcher of Israel and Iran. They talk about negotiations for a new nuclear deal with Iran and why they've stalled, scenarios for where negotiations and Iran's nuclear program might go from here, and how the region might change if Iran successfully develops a nuclear weapon. Then, Jon continued the conversation with Natasha Hall and Caleb Harper about what the lack of a deal would mean for the United States and U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Henry Rome, “The Limits of a New Iran Nuclear Deal,” Foreign Affairs, March 8, 2022. 

Henry Rome, “The status of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program,” International Institute for Strategic Studies, January 25, 2022.  

Henry Rome and Eric Brewer, “Getting to ‘No’ With Iran,” War on the Rocks, December 1, 2021. 

Jon Alterman, "Iran Will Still be a Slog," Defense One, January 25, 2021.

Transcript, "Nuclear Negotiations with Iran," CSIS, July 26, 2022.