SEPADPod with Sanam Vakil

3rd Mar 2020 by Simon Mabon

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Sanam Vakil, Deputy Head and Senior Research Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Sanam is the author of Action and Reaction: Women and Politics in Iran (Bloomsbury 2013) along with a number of reports and Op Eds, including Getting a New Iran Deal (2019) and Iran and the GCC (2018) On this episode, Simon and Sanam talk about visiting the Islamic Republic and an enduring fear of airports, women and activism in the Islamic Republic, structural factors preventing a thawing of relations across the Gulf, and ways towards a new (form of) JCPOA.

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