On the Foundation for Defense of Democracies's podcast Foreign Podicy, Zineb Riboua explains that she has always been skeptical of attempts to forge “peace deals” with the Islamist revolutionaries in Tehran. She discusses Iran, Morocco (where she was born), France (where she went to school), Russia, China, and Latin America as well as the rising ideology—including in the United States—of Third Worldism.
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Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, and Indonesia's Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka during the G20 Leaders' Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 22, 2025. (Getty Images)