Lawfare Archive: The National Security Law Podcast Guys Talk Soleimani
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
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From January 11, 2020: As part of Lawfare's continuing coverage of the killing of Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani, we are bringing you an edited version of the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast, in which Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck discuss the legality of the strike and what this means for the future of U.S.-Iranian relations. We edited the podcast down solely to focus solely on the discussion of Soleimani.
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| 0:47.3 | Music I'm Marissa Wong, Intern at Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare for March 8, 2006. On February 28, the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes targeting Iran that have reportedly killed at least 1,045 people in Iran, including the regime's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini. |
| 1:08.0 | These strikes are a part of the U.S. campaign to debilitate Iran's nuclear and missile |
| 1:12.9 | capabilities and destabilize the current regime. The Trump administration's willingness to |
| 1:18.6 | strike Iranian military assets dates back to January 2020. When a U.S. drone strike assassinated |
| 1:26.9 | Qasem Soleimani. The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, |
| 1:32.3 | Quds Force. |
| 1:33.3 | For today's archive, I chose an episode from January 11, 2020, in which Robert Chesney |
| 1:41.3 | and Steve Vladak discussed the legality of the strike that killed Soleimani |
| 1:45.9 | and what it means for the future of U.S. Iran relations. |
| 2:06.9 | I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the Lawfare podcast, January 11th, 2020. |
| 2:12.6 | The National Security Law Podcast is something you should be listening to every week. The brainchild of Bobby Chesney, Lawfare co-founder and Steve Vladick, both of the University of Texas Law School, |
| 2:21.4 | is the deepest dive on the national security law subjects of the day available anywhere in podcast land. |
| 2:29.8 | This week, however, the conversation between the two of them on the Soleimani killing and the law thereof was so fabulous that we thought we would inject it into your feeds through the Lawfare podcast feed as well. |
| 2:45.9 | So here's what we did. |
| 2:47.3 | We took the podcast. |
| 2:48.9 | We edited it down just to the substantive discussions of the |
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