Ep.211: Is Iran regime change a realistic option?

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and implications of regime change in Iran, featuring insights from Jonathan Tobin and General Yosef Kuperwasser.

According to JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin, at the heart of much of the opposition to the joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran is general ignorance about the fanatical nature of the Tehran Islamist terror regime. Rooted in religious fanaticism, their sponsorship of terrorism and nuclear ambitions are non-negotiable to a government of theocratic tyrants. That makes it imperative that Washington cease allowing them to delay until they get a weapon. Tobin is joined in this week’s episode of Think Twice by Retired Israel Defense Forces General Yosef Kuperwasser, the director of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. He says the answer to the question about why the regime underestimated President Donald Trump’s determination to stop them from continuing to seek a nuclear weapon and spread terrorism is rooted in its essential nature. “They couldn't do anything else, because accepting the conditions put forward by the president would have portrayed them as weak, and they cannot afford to be seen weak at home,” says Kuperwasser. He added that they also are really committed to having this nuclear weapon and will never give it up. What’s more, they believed that isolationists…

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Tobin

Guest: Yosef Kuperwasser

Topics covered

• Iran
• regime change
• U.S.-Israel relations
• nuclear weapons
• terrorism
• Islamic extremism

Keywords

• Iran regime change
• nuclear ambitions
• terrorism
• U.S.-Israel strikes
• Tehran
• Islamist regime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security

Places: Iran, United States, Israel

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