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Six days in, how is the war going in Iran and how is the war changing alliances among the nations of the Middle East?

Welcome.

I'm Paul as you go here on Potomac Watch, the daily podcast of Wall Street Journal Opinion.

Those are the subjects, among others.

We want to talk about today on Potomac Watch, and we have the perfect guest to talk about that.

And Michael Duran, he's the senior fellow and director at the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute.

He's been toiling in these waters for years and knows whereof he speaks, having worked at the

National Security Council in the George W. Bush administration on

mid-east issues, including Arab-Israeli relations, Iran, Syria. He's also worked as an advisor

to the State Department and as a deputy assistant secretary of defense. Michael, welcome.

Good to have you here. Thanks for coming in. Great to be here. Thank you.

So let's start by talking, getting your assessment of where you think we are, six days into the

war. How is the campaign, the military side of it going? Militarily, it's going brilliantly. I think

all of the statements from the American and Israeli officials saying it's ahead of schedule better than they expected.

I have no reason to doubt them. I think it's been an exemplary campaign. Of course, there's still a lot of work to do.

And there's the big question in my mind, which is how do we translate the military achievement into lasting political goals?

We don't know how that's going to happen yet.

I do want to talk about that. But just keeping to the military side, we've heard from the Israelis

that they thought that the Iranians had about 400 missile launchers, ballistic missile

launchers before the war started this time,

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