Lawfare Daily: Iran Will Retaliate in the U.S., and We May Not See It in Time
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
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In this episode, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Troy Edwards joins Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg to discuss Iran’s history of drawing from a robust retaliatory toolkit and international proxy network to extend its reach around the world, including in the United States. Reviewing Iran’s recent attempts at retaliating against the U.S. after the last major escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions—the U.S. drone strike killing IRGC-QF Commander Qassim Soleimani in January 2020—Troy and Mike discuss what Iran could do now after Operation Epic Fury. Only this time, they survey the current administration’s damage done to the national security apparatus that may have us unprepared.
This episode builds from Troy Edwards’s piece with others that can be found on Lawfare: “Iran Will Retaliate in the U.S. We May Not See It in Time.”
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| 0:35.2 | These litigating components are developing their own identities over the last 20 years, particularly |
| 0:40.2 | in a post-9-11 threat landscape. |
| 0:43.3 | And the leadership there was doing a phenomenal job at developing a culture of both excitement |
| 0:48.6 | and aggression, leaning it forward and dispersing across the country to lead U.S. Attorney's offices and help AUSAs navigate this classified information space and this hyper-specialized foreign adversary space. |
| 1:02.4 | It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm senior editor, Michael Feinberg, and today I'm speaking with Lawfare Public Service Fellow Troy L.T. Edwards. |
| 1:13.0 | To lose all of that is to not only put us at risk now when we face an heightened threat risk |
| 1:19.4 | from our conflict with Iran, but it's also to put us at risk moving forward because it's now |
| 1:24.8 | losing progress at developing that culture and adjusting with the ever-malliable threat landscape that exists. |
| 1:31.3 | It's been a long time to pick that back up and start rebuilding. |
| 1:34.6 | Today we're discussing his new article, which talks about the past, present, and future of the conflict between the United States and Iran, previously consigned to the shadows, and now in the open. |
| 1:50.0 | We are here today to discuss your recent article Iran will retaliate in the U.S. |
| 1:57.0 | We may not see it in time. |
| 1:59.0 | The very title itself is a little ominous, but I suspect that was the |
| 2:04.7 | intention. And we're going to get to why you think that is the case that Iran may strike the |
| 2:12.1 | U.S. in some form or fashion, and we may not be able to get ahead of it. But before we really delve into that argument, |
| 2:19.7 | I was hoping you could give a sort of overview of what you understand is the history of Iran |
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