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HARDtalk: Robert Baer

21/07/2008

Robert Baer

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Stephen Sackur talks to Robert Baer, a former CIA agent, about Iran.

Stephen Sackur talks to Robert Baer, a former CIA agent who says America is slowly facing up to the fact that Iran is a regional superpower.

President Bush has likened direct diplomatic engagement with Iran to the British appeasement of Hitler. But Washington has sent a top US diplomat to meet Iran's nuclear negotiators and there is talk of an American diplomatic representation in Tehran. What is behind this seeming change of strategy? Robert Baer is a former CIA agent who says America is slowly facing up to the fact that Iran is a regional superpower. He talks to Stephen Sackur.

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