The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel has escalated significantly since September 2024. Our panelists will discuss Hezbollah’s calculus moving forward, the Iranian dimension in the conflict, and prospects for a political resolution.
If Israel or the United States tries to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, that would likely harden Iranian resolve to acquire nuclear weapons without eliminating Iran’s capability to do so.
Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program, and Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, to discuss how Iran perceives the current landscape and may act as the crisis unfolds.
After its latest escalation, Tehran may be forced to reconsider its entire approach to national security, including leveraging its status as a threshold nuclear state to counter Israel.
If Israel does not seek to end the occupation or acquiesce to a two-state solution, then Jordan fears that Israeli designs regarding the mass transfer of Palestinians remain on the Netanyahu government’s agenda and have not been buried.
A conversation about how these confrontations are different from previous conflicts.
