From left, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, Secretary of State John Kerry, Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and Iran’s head of the Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, in Switzerland for bilateral nuclear talks in March. (United States Department of State / CC BY-SA 3.0)

On this week’s installment of “Left, Right & Center,” Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other panelists discuss the Iran nuclear deal, the U.S. response to the Syrian refugee crisis, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Iowa and Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s proposal for tax cuts — for himself.

Scheer is joined by Josh Barro of The New York Times moderating from the center, Rich Lowry of the National Review on the right and Katrina vanden Heuvel from The Nation as a special guest from the left.

Listen here.

–Posted by Roisin Davis

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