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If there is a limited U.S. strike, Iran is probably likely, most likely, to respond, perhaps bigger than it did following Midnight Hammer, but still try to calibrate its response so it doesn't end up generating that outcome that it hopes to avoid, which is regime change.

It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, with Lawfare Public Service fellow Ari

Tabatabai and Eric Brewer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

For the administration to indicate that the current regime in its current format,

led by people who are willing to just

kind of shut down the internet for several days and then kill this many people is legitimizing

that regime. And if we end up granting them sanctions relief, we're giving them a lifeline

economically that we don't need to be giving them in this particular moment. Today we're talking Iran.

Is the United States going to war with Iran?

And if so, why?

And what over?

Is it about Iran's residual nuclear program or is it about regime change?

Ari, are we about to have a war with Iran?

Maybe.

It is a brilliant question.

I don't know the answer to that,

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