Is Israel trying to make Iran a failed state?
Mar 18, 2026•16 min
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Episode description
Donald Trump’s top counterterrorism official has quit over the war in Iran.
He says pressure from Israel, not an imminent threat from Iran, led the US president to start the conflict.
Today, Hussein Ibish from the Arab Gulf States Institute on Benjamin Netanyahu’s goals in Iran and how long he wants the fight to last.
He explains why, if regime change isn’t possible, Israel might keep going until the Iranian state fails.
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Hussein Ibish, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute
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