Inside the Issues - Diplomacy in Syria and Iran

With twin crises in Syria and Iran requiring increasingly complicated diplomatic solutions, this week Inside the Issues talks to Paul Heinbecker, long-time Canadian diplomat and former ambassador to the United Nations. Government repression in Syria, Heinbecker says, has crossed the threshold to trigger the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle, and calls for international military intervention. The dangers of attacking Iran, meanwhile, far outweigh the potential benefits; Heinbecker argues that the country’s history of non-aggression and the West’s record of containing a nuclear Russia and China show that a more prudent course of action with Iran is required.