Israel Strikes Iran. Is Escalation Inevitable?

The Reason Roundtable

Politics, News

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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U.S. involvement in the new Middle East conflict, political violence at home, and the No Kings protests

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Reason Roundtable.
0:07.9	This is the podcast of Free Minds, Free Markets, and Free Takes.
0:11.2	I'm your host, Peter Souterman.
0:12.8	And today I am joined by my illustrious colleagues, Catherine Mayneux, Matt Welch, and special
0:18.0	guest, Matthew Petty.
0:20.2	Everybody say hello.
0:21.5	Howdy?
0:22.7	Hello.
0:23.9	Hello.
0:25.6	All right.
0:26.5	Great.
0:26.8	Following over the instructions there.
0:28.2	So this is normally where I say happy Monday.
0:30.6	But our topics today aren't so happy.
0:32.4	Over the weekend, we saw a major new war break out in the Middle East as Israel struck Iran.
0:37.3	And Iran fired back in what many now expect to be a protracted conflict.
0:41.9	On the home front, we saw political violence in Minnesota.
0:44.7	Two Democratic state lawmakers were shot, one was killed in what has been described as an assassination.
0:50.0	Last night, after a massive manhunt, authorities in Minnesota caught a 57-year-old man
0:55.7	that they say murdered Melissa Hortman, the top Democrat in the House, as well as her husband.
1:00.6	A man also is alleged to have shut state senator John Hoffman, a fellow Democrat, and his spouse
1:06.0	over the weekend. Still a lot we don't know, still a lot of details, but it is tragic and horrific.
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