Iran War: Weekend Warriors or Shabbat Shalom? 🪂 🤸‍♀️ A Yogi Walks Into Her Living Room Alone

About this episode

Shana Meyerson discusses the complexities of the Iran War and its implications for Israel and the Iranian people.

As the Iran War is muddled with messages from President Donald Trump and various IRGC leaders, we are all trying to muddle through the confusion and try to figure out what is actually happening. Is war going to restart? In what form? And what about the Iranian people???? In this live conversation, Shana Meyerson talks about the war (or ceasefire) in Iran—both kinetic and economic—as well as the war of words that keeps on raging against Israel and the Jewish people. A Paratrooper And A Yogi Walk Into A Bar cohost, military expert Andrew Fox, was unable to make it to the bar this week... Andrew Fox is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and cohost of The Brink Podcast. He served for 16 years in the British Army, leaving the Parachute Regiment with the rank of Major. He completed 3 tours in Afghanistan including one attached to US Army Special Forces, as well as further tours of Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. He was a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, teaching in the War Studies and Behavioural Science departments. In the last year he has visited Gaza twice as well as Hezbollah tunnels in Lebanon. Andrew is a regular Middle East…

People in this episode

Host: Shana Meyerson

Topics covered

• Iran War
• Israel
• Middle East
• Economic conflict
• Military commentary
• Political analysis

Keywords

• Iran War
• Shabbat Shalom
• Donald Trump
• IRGC
• Israel
• Gaza
• Lebanon
• Middle East conflict

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IRGC, Henry Jackson Society, GB News, TalkTV, LBC

Books & works: The Spectator, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, New York Post, The Tablet

Places: Iran, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon

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