Episode 8: The Iran Sanctions and the Current World Crisis

May 2, 2022

On this week’s episode of “The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance,” Stroock Partner Tom Firestone talks to Nader Uskowi, one of the country’s leading experts on Iran and Afghanistan. Nader has served as a senior advisor to the Pentagon on some of the most sensitive policy issues in Iran and Afghanistan and, as a private consultant, helps companies navigate the risks of doing business in the region. He is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, president of Sagewood Consulting LLC, and is the author of Temperature Rising: Iran Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East.

Nader and Tom discuss:

• The Iran sanctions -- what they can teach us about sanctioning Russia
• The prospects for lifting the Iran sanctions
• How some in Iran are profiting from the sanctions
• Iran and the war in Ukraine
• Lessons of the Afghanistan reconstruction effort for Ukraine