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10:00U-S Iran Relations

Iran’s president prepares a set of proposals he says will end the international stand-off over its nuclear program. The Obama administration considers dropping a long-standing pre-condition for negotiations. The latest on U-S Iran relations.

Guests

David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for "The New York Times;" author of "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power"

Patrick Clawson, deputy director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and co-author of "Eternal Iran."

David Albright, former U.N. nuclear weapons inspector and president of the Institute for Science and International Security

John Tirman, Executive Director and Principle Research Scientist at the Center for International Studies. He is author or coauthor of ten books on international affairs.

11:00Thomas Buergenthal: "A Lucky Child" (Little Brown)

A world court judge describes the remarkable luck that allowed him to survive as a child in Nazi concentration camps and how his experiences during the Holocaust shaped his lifelong commitment to universal human rights

Guests

Thomas Buergenthal, is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence, and is currently the American judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.

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