Under the Shadow: Illicit Economies in Iran
Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
English - November 10, 2020 16:45 - 48 minutes - 67 MBNews Commentary News Government Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this podcast, Jack is looking at the latest Global Initative Against Transnational Organized Crime report called 'Under the Shadow: Illicit Economies in Iran', which looks at how the illicit economy has become intertwined within the licit economy of the Iranian State.
Speakers
Alexander Soderholm, an international drug policy field researcher with a focus on Iran and the Middle East.
Katherine Bauer, a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former US Treasury official.
Naysan Rafati, the Senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group
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