Capehart and Ponnuru on the politics of Israel’s attack and Iran’s response
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Israel's attack on Iran and Iran's response has Washington and the rest of the world holding its breath for an all-out war between the two regional powers. |
| 0:09.6 | To discuss that and more, we turn now to the analysis of K-Part and Pannuru. |
| 0:14.6 | That is Jonathan Kpart, Associate Editor for the Washington Post and Ramesh Pannuru, editor for the National Review. |
| 0:20.8 | David Brooks is away this evening. |
| 0:22.4 | It's great to see you both. |
| 0:23.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:24.1 | Let's start overseas with the lead story tonight. |
| 0:26.2 | This moment in time, Jonathan, where we saw these unprecedented strikes by Israel on Iran. |
| 0:30.8 | We're seeing the extraordinary response by Iran. |
| 0:34.1 | And more broadly, a region that has been getting more and more unstable over the last |
| 0:38.7 | several months. How are you looking at that? |
| 0:41.9 | Well, I'm looking at that with great trepidation. I mean, basically since October 7th, |
| 0:47.6 | the region has been roiling. And at the center of it is Prime Minister Netanyahu, who, you know, understandably going after |
| 0:57.3 | Hamas and Gaza, but then opening other fronts within the Middle East. |
| 1:02.5 | And this attack on Iran, it just strikes me that he is doing things that I'm not sure the president of the United States |
| 1:15.0 | is totally bought in. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm not sure whether the United States, whether he's either listening to American officials |
| 1:22.2 | who at least at one point the president was pleading, you know, hey, don't do anything. |
| 1:26.8 | Hey, Iran, come to the table |
| 1:28.5 | and then switching once the attack started saying, I'm all for it. But the big thing here is |
| 1:34.3 | between what Netanyahu has done with Iran, coupled with what Prime Minister's, what President |
| 1:41.2 | Zelensky of Ukraine did in terms of not cluing in the United States, |
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