About this episode

This episode discusses the reasons behind Iran's decision not to engage in terrorism, based on a commentary by Daniel Byman.

An audio version of "Why Didn’t Iran Use Terrorism?," a new Commentary by CSIS's Daniel Byman. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

Topics covered

• Iran
• terrorism
• Middle East
• politics
• security

Keywords

• Iran
• terrorism
• Daniel Byman
• CSIS
• Middle East

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Eleven Labs

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