A Debate Over the War in Iran
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. |
| 0:03.0 | A size too snug, but what could she do? |
| 0:06.0 | But that's not where her story ends. |
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| 0:19.0 | Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots. |
| 0:23.3 | Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian. Better your score. |
| 0:28.7 | Better your story. Hi, I'm Dan Efron, Foreign Policy's executive editor. This is FP Live. |
| 0:40.8 | You're used to hearing Ravi's voice at the top of the show. He's away this week, |
| 0:45.1 | but there's so much going on in the world. We didn't want to leave you without an episode. |
| 0:49.2 | So we're focusing again on the war in Iran, but our format is going to be a little different. |
| 0:54.8 | This week we're featuring a debate about the war. Was the Trump administration justified |
| 0:59.8 | in attacking Iran? And will the war advance U.S. interests in the region or set them back? |
| 1:06.3 | Joining me are two terrific guests with opposing views on the war. Matthew Kronig is an FP columnist. |
| 1:13.9 | He's also senior director of the Skokroft Center at the Atlantic Council. He once advised |
| 1:18.8 | Senator Marco Rubio, who of course is now Secretary of State, and he also served in the |
| 1:23.9 | first Trump administration in the Defense Department. If you read as columns |
| 1:28.0 | an FP, you know that Matt has been arguing for military strikes on Iran for a long time. |
| 1:33.4 | We'll put some links in the show notes. And Trita Parsi is the executive vice president at the |
| 1:39.4 | Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He also co-founded and formerly ran the National Iranian |
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