After the airstrikes: Where do Iran and Israel go from here?
Today we are joined by Beirut-based journalist Kim Ghattas, author of the bestselling book Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East. She is also a contributing editor at the Financial Times.
We\u2019re speaking to Kim about the unprecedented, overt attacks exchanged this month between Israel and Iran \u2014 most recently an Israeli strike on Friday near the Iranian city of Isfahan.
Where is this dangerous tit-for-tat headed next, and what\u2019s at stake? What do Iran and Israel\u2019s leaders actually want here? And what does it mean for the wider region?
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