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15 Feb 2017 Conversations with Tyler Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Live at Sixth & I)
“I can’t speak in those words, but I think that any deal — first of all, knowing something about Iranian culture because so much of my congregation is Iranian, and any deal where the American side didn’t leave the table even once is to me, by definition, a bad deal.”
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…The Iran nuclear deal, overrated or underrated? Way overrated, and I wish it hadn’t . . . I think that it will prove a mistake, I think a bad mistake. Having said that, I also want to say what I said when I spoke against it. I want to say one other thing, though, which is — when the Iran nuclear deal came out, all of a sudden, people who had never been, who knew nothing about nuclear physics, and I include myself, except that they watched The Simpsons . . . [laughter] We’re pronouncing on whether it was a good idea or not. I can’t speak in those words, but I think that any deal — first of all, knowing something about Iranian culture because so much of my congregation is Iranian, and any deal where the American side didn’t leave the table even once is to me, by definition, a bad deal. By definition. [applause] I hope to God that I’m wrong, but I think overrated. Speaking of Islam, what is it that’s especially beautiful in Islam?…
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