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Amanpour

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Iran has vowed revenge for the killing of top security official Ali Larijani, who was taken out in an Israeli airstrike. Tehran has been ramping up attacks on Israel, with two pensioners killed in strikes on central Israel and almost 200 people hospitalized in 24 hours. Naftali Bennett served as Israel's Prime Minister until 2022 and joins the show to discuss what Israel's long term goal is.  Also on today’s show: Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Former Iranian diplomat/ Former Iranian nuclear negotiator; Edward Fishman, Author, “Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare”    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello everyone and welcome to Amatpur. Here's what's coming up. Everyone is a target, a stark warning from Israel as it goes after Iran's top officials and intensify strikes on Lebanon. I asked former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about Israel's endgame. Then, Tehran hits back hard at Tel Aviv, so how much are Israel's targeted

0:56.2

assassinations destabilizing the regime? Former Iranian diplomat Seid Hossein Musabian

1:02.2

gives me his view. Plus, still a major choke point, how the Strait of Hormor's blockade

1:08.1

is strangling oil supply and the global economy.

1:11.6

Author Edward Fishman explains.

1:13.6

The Welcome to the program, everyone, I'm Christianamanpur in London.

1:40.7

A vow of revenge from Iran as a funeral procession is held for top security official

1:45.6

Ali Larijani, who was killed Tuesday in an Israeli strike. Tehran has been ramping up attacks

1:52.0

on Israel with two pensioners killed in strikes on central part of the country and almost 200 people

1:59.3

hospitalized in 24 hours.

2:01.9

U.S. Israel attacks on Iran's gas fields now could mean harder Iranian retaliation and further

2:07.9

shock to the global energy market.

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