Iran's role in the Gaza war: is escalation inevitable?

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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With all eyes on Israel’s escalating war with Hamas, what’s Iran’s next move? Iran gets around. In Southern Lebanon, Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters have a missile arsenal that dwarfs Hamas’ rocket supply and could overwhelm Israel’s famed “Iron Dome” air defense. The Pentagon recently redirected the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier and its strike group of destroyers to the Middle East instead of the eastern Mediterranean, ready to intercept missile and drone strikes by Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen aimed at Israel. Days later, American F-16 jets carried out airstrikes in Eastern Syria on facilities used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard and its proxies, in retaliation for a barrage of recent rocket and drone attacks against American forces in Iraq and Syria. But there’s a big difference between skirmishes with Iran proxy forces and an all-out US-Israel-Iran war. So how close is Israel to all-out war with Iran...and how will Israel’s ongoing invasion of Gaza up the ante? What are the implications for Israel's Western allies? On the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer asks Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace.

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0:00.0	Iran doesn't care about the well-being of Palestinians.
0:04.0	It doesn't care about the well-being of Lebanese or Yemenis or Iraqis.
0:09.0	Iran really benefits from the misery of these populations and these failing states,
0:15.0	and they don't want to see these populations become prosperous.
0:21.2	And so in some ways, the more these populations experience conflict, whether it's conflict
0:26.9	amongst themselves or direct conflict with Israel, Iran has tended to benefit from this despair
0:34.3	of these Arab populations.
0:41.2	Hello and welcome to the GZero World podcast.
0:45.8	This is where you'll find extended conversations from interviews on my public television show.
0:46.4	I'm Ian Bremar and today, as all eyes are on Israel's escalating war with Hamas, what is Iran's
0:53.2	next move?
0:54.6	In southern Lebanon, Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters have a missile arsenal that dwarfs
0:59.6	Hamas's rocket supply that could easily overwhelm Israel's famed Iron Dome air defense.
1:05.7	What's more, the Pentagon recently redirected the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier and its
1:10.7	strike group of
1:11.3	destroyers to the Middle East instead of the eastern Mediterranean.
1:15.3	One big reason to intercept missile and drone strikes by Iran-backed Houthi militias and
1:20.9	Yemen aimed at Israel.
1:24.0	Days later, American F-16 jets carried out air strikes in eastern Syria on facilities used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies.
1:34.6	Strikes were in retaliation for a barrage of recent rocket and drone attacks against American forces in Iraq and Syria.
1:42.6	So, yeah, Iran gets around. But there's a big difference between skirmishes
1:47.9	with Iran proxy forces and an all-out U.S.-Israel-Iran war. So how close is Israel and its
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