Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Fouad Ajami, professor of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Of Persian descent himself, Dr. Ajami explains why President Obama’s approach to Iran has proven all wrong.

As soon as Barack Hussein Obama came to office, he generally believed that because his middle name is “Hussein” and because the patron saint of Iranian Shi’ism is Hussein, that he can make a deal with the Iranians. The Iranians want no deal of any kind.

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