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On April 1st, seven high-level Iranian military officials were killed in an Israeli

air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria.

The strike comes amid already high tensions in the Middle East as a result of the ongoing

conflict between Israel and Hamas. In response to the strike, Iran has vowed to retaliate.

For today's episode, I chose an episode from December 2nd, 2020. In the episode, Benjamin Wittis sat down with Scott

R Anderson, Suzanne Maloney, and Natan Sox to talk about the killing of top

Iranian nuclear scientist Mossen-Fakrazada, in November 2020 by an Israeli strike.

They discussed why Israel conducted the operation, how effective the killing of Iranian nuclear

scientists had been been and more. I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast December 2nd, 2020.

The top Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed, apparently in an Israeli strike.

Mohsen-Fachrizada, who has long been the mastermind of the Iranian nuclear program was gunned down if you believe the news reports in an attack with a remote control machine gun.

Iranian reprisals are expected, although their timing in nature is not clear.

It also puts the incoming Biden administration, which is looking to bring back the Iran nuclear deal in a bit of a pickle.

To chew it all over, I was joined in the virtual jungle studio by Scott Anderson,

International Law Specialist and Law Fair Senior Editor,

Suzanne Maloney, the Vice President and Director

of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and an Iran scholar.

And Nautan Sachs, Director of the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings where he focuses on Israeli policy.

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