EP.798: Iran's UN Ambassador

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Iranian Ambassador to the UN Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh. He discusses Hassan Rouhani and Javad Zarif’s trip to the UN General Assembly and whether US efforts of maximum pressure and isolation are succeeding, accusations that Iran was behind the Saudi Aramco oil field attack, why the attack was an act of defence by the Yemeni people, why Iran refuses a photo-op or negotiations with Trump, why Iran no longer trusts the US after the collapse of the Iran Deal (JCPOA), the Israel-Palestinian conflict and more! Next we speak to former Minister of State at the Home Office and former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker on Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to scrap Universal Credit and the new revelations that a Twitter executive is a British Army information warfare unit reservist. Finally we speak to Dr. Shashi Tharoor of the Indian National Congress on Gandhi Jayanti, India’s national holiday marking the 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. He discusses whether Gandhi’s secular vision for India still survives after the dominant victory of Modi and the Hindu nationalist BJP in 2014 and 2019, whether Savarkar’s and Golwalkar’s Hindutva will be shaping the Indian constitution and politics, the Kashmir crisis and Pakistan’s Imran Khan’s threat of nuclear war with India and more!