June 17, 2025
The Israeli-Iranian War: How We Got Here & What It Means
Israel’s strikes against Iran’s military and nuclear infrastructure, as well as its key military and security leadership, shocked the world. How did we arrive here? What did the Israeli strikes accomplish? What options does Iran have? How did the Iranian-U.S. nuclear talks fail to forestall this? Will the United States become a party to the conflict? What about the Russian and Iraqi dimensions? Nicole Grajewski of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Rachel Brandenburg, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joined Ryan to answer these questions and more.
Listen to the full episode on War on the Rocks.
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