The Empire Strikes Back: No War with Iran and 5 Bold Predictions

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of a recent escalation in the Middle East involving the U.S. and Iran.

This week on Not Suitable for Democracy, we turn to global politics as the world reels from a dramatic and destabilizing escalation in the Middle East. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a coordinated series of strikes on Iran, killing Iran’s Supreme Leader and throwing the country’s government into a sudden and dangerous power vacuum. What does leadership decapitation mean for a nation of 92 million people? And how fragile is the r...

Topics covered

• global politics
• Middle East
• Iran
• leadership decapitation
• power vacuum

Keywords

• Trump
• Netanyahu
• Iran's Supreme Leader
• political instability

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Books & works: Not Suitable for Democracy

Places: Iran, the Middle East

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