Tonight on The Brian Crombie Hour, Brian interviews Kaveh Shahrooz. Kaveh is a lawyer, a human rights activist, a university instructor, and a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. A former Senior Policy Advisor to Global Affairs Canada on international human rights policy, Kaveh is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Toronto. He serves as a legal advisor to the Association of Families of Flight PS752 and is also a co-founder of the Iranian Justice Collective, an organization focused on supporting Iranian democratic aspirations.
Together Kaveh and Brian discuss the current situation in Iran, noting that the regime's nuclear policy has isolated and damaged the country economically. Kaveh explained that Iranians are angry not at Israel for its attacks, but at their own government for its handling of the situation and for prioritizing defense spending over civil liberties. He also expressed concern that the Israeli strikes, while currently precise, could escalate and lead to broader conflict. Kaveh agrees with the assessment that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at developing a bomb, rather than civilian energy purposes, and that the country is close to achieving nuclear capability.
