Promising to wipe out a whole civilization and asking for God’s blessing for the Great People of Iran — this now historic post by President Trump seems to have set in motion a peace-making process that may cool tensions in the Middle East for at least two weeks. Is it enough, though, to leave the realm of epic fury and create the conditions for normal, ordinary diplomacy? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Alam Saleh, Senior Lecturer in Iranian Studies at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University.
