Iran Talks and Trump’s Cuba Strategy w/Ricardo Zúñiga

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President Trump is simultaneously pursuing peace talks with Iran while escalating U.S. military pressure in the region following recent strikes. Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer revisit the policy options most likely facing the administration and walk through how they would advise the president at this moment of escalation and diplomacy. Then, Ricardo Zúñiga, former Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council and one of the architects of the Obama administration’s opening to Cuba, joins to discuss: The politics behind U.S.-Cuba policy What Obama was trying to achieve through engagement with Havana How Trump’s approach to Cuba and Latin America has changed in…