Bonus: War With Iran: What Is the U.S.'s Endgame?

About this episode

This emergency podcast discusses the current war with Iran, U.S. goals, and potential future outcomes.

We are bringing you an emergency podcast on the war with Iran. It seems like only yesterday that we put out a bonus podcast on the strikes in Venezuela. That’s because it was just two months ago, and it may have encouraged a sense of military adventurism that has led to full-on war with Iran. Today, we are talking about who is currently ruling Iran at present. What are the U.S. goals? And what is likely to happen in the future? Will the regime fall? And if it does, what kind of gove...

People in this episode

Host: Anita Kellogg

Topics covered

• war
• Iran
• U.S. foreign policy
• military strategy
• political regime

Keywords

• Iran
• U.S. goals
• military adventurism
• political regime
• war

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S.

Places: Iran, Venezuela

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