Ali Ezzatyar talking Iran on Al Jazeera

By Michael J.W. Stickings

As some of you may know, one of our contributors at The Reaction is Ali Ezzatyar, a lawyer who is currently the executive director of the Berkeley Program on Entrepreneurship and Democracy in the Middle East. (Yes, he mostly writes about the Middle East for us. His understanding of the region is, needless to say, extensive. For example, back in June he wrote about Turkey's protests and Erdogan's authoritarianism.)

Here is Ali on Al Jazeera America recently discussing the apparent thawing of relations between the U.S. and Iran, as well as the worsening state of the Iranian economy. Suffice it to say, the guy knows what he's talking about.