The Art of No Deal 🪂 🤸 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ceasefire

About this episode

Andrew Fox and Shana Meyerson discuss the implications of the ceasefire's end in the Israel-Iran conflict.

Ceasefire in Iran...over. Iran fired four rounds of missiles on Israel and despite Donald Trump's implorings, Benjamin Netanyahu gave the IDF the go-ahead to retaliate against Tehran. Is this the end of the ceasefire? Will the war escalate or is a deal on the horizon? And is there any possibility of a good deal with the IRGC? Or are we headed down the road to a very bad deal? As the crisis in the Hormuz Strait plunges the world towards economic demise, something has to give...what will it be? In this live conversation, military expert Andrew Fox and A Paratrooper And A Yogi Walk Into A Bar cohost, Shana Meyerson, discuss the Israel-Iran war, and what it means for the future not just of the Jewish State, but for the United States-Israel relationship as a whole. 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…

People in this episode

Host: Shana Meyerson

Guest: Andrew Fox

Topics covered

• Israel-Iran conflict
• ceasefire
• military strategy
• US-Israel relations
• Middle East crisis

Keywords

• ceasefire
• Iran
• Israel
• military expert
• Middle East
• economic crisis
• US-Israel relationship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IDF, IRGC, Henry Jackson Society, The Brink Podcast, GB News, TalkTV, LBC

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

Places: Iran, Israel, Hormuz Strait

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