Iran's Role in the Hamas Attacks & Implications for the United States | Kamran Bokhari

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Demetri Kofinas

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 332 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with geopolitical analyst and forecaster Kamran Bokhari. Kamran is the Senior Director of the Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy and has served at the U.S. State Department and as a Senior Consultant with the World Bank.

The subjects of today’s conversation concern the escalating violence ignited by last weekend’s brutal attacks on Israeli civilians by Hamas, as well as the Israeli Defense Forces’ ongoing counteroffensive and bombing of the Gaza Strip.

Kamran and Demetri spend the first hour of their conversation discussing the attacks, what we know about their original scope and intention, what role Iran may have played in helping plan the attacks, and whether or not we can expect Hezbollah to open a second front of attack in the north of Israel, as well as other potential pathways of escalation that could rope in the United States and turn this into a larger, regional conflict.

In the second hour, Bokhari and Kofinas look at how the events transpiring in the Middle East fit into the story that Demetri has been telling on this podcast for years about the fragmentation of the liberal rules-based international order and the emergence of a new multipolarity where nation states will seek to resolve long-standing border or ethnic disputes by force as everyone jostles to reposition themselves favorably ahead of the emergence of a new status quo. What this means for the future of Israel, Iran, Turkey, China, Russia, and the United States, is all part of that discussion.

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Episode Recorded on 10/15/2023

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? My name is Demetri Kofinas and you're listening to Hidden Forces, a
0:05.9	podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens to challenge consensus narratives and to learn how to think
0:14.3	critical about the systems of power shaping our world. The second hour of
0:19.1	today's conversation with the geopolitical analyst and forecaster
0:22.6	Cameron Bahari was originally made available to premium subscribers only.
0:27.2	I've decided to publish the entire two hours on the Hidden Forces main feed
0:31.6	as a public service to those of you who are trying to understand
0:35.2	what's happening right now in the Middle East and how it fits into the larger story
0:40.1	that we have been telling on this podcast for years.
0:43.0	Comrin is the senior director of the Eurasian Security and Prosperity Portfolio
0:48.0	at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy,
0:51.0	and has served in the U.S. State Department and as a
0:54.1	senior consultant with the World Bank. The subject of today's conversation
0:58.6	concerns the escalating violence ignited by last weekend's brutal attacks on Israeli
1:03.6	civilians by Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces ongoing
1:07.2	counter-offensive and bombing of the Gaza Strip.
1:11.1	Comron and I spend the first hour of our conversation discussing the attacks, what we know about the original scope and intention, what role and Ron may have played in helping plan the attacks, and whether or not we can expect Hezbollah to open a second front of
1:24.4	attack in the north of Israel and other potential pathways of escalation
1:28.4	that could rope in the United States and turn what is currently a war between
1:32.1	Israel and Hamas into a larger regional conflict.
1:36.0	In the second hour, we expand the scope of our conversation to look at the bigger picture.
1:41.0	How do the events transpiring in the Middle East today fit into the
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