What Should We Expect in Iran? | Victoria Coates
Heritage Explains
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šļø 4 March 2026
ā±ļø 23 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday, after a third round of failed negotiation with the aspiring nuclear state of Iran, the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation called Epic Fury.Ā
Those strikes were successful inĀ eliminatingĀ the majority ofĀ Iranian Senior leadership, includingĀ Iranās Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. War is never a decision to be taken lightly, as lives and nations hang inĀ the balance. I sat down with Victoria Coates, Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy here at Heritage, to talk about what has led up to this conflict in Iran and what she hopes to see going forward.Ā
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Thoughts? Questions? Email us at:Ā heritageexplains@heritage.org.Ā Ā
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More onĀ DefenseĀ fromĀ Heritage:Ā https://www.heritage.org/defenseĀ
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| 0:24.6 | to get back in their |
| 0:26.7 | box and stay there. |
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| 0:46.3 | Thank you. This is Heritage Explains. The President Shephe was forced to strike because of an immediate Israeli action. No, first, well, let me two things I would say. |
| 0:48.3 | Number one is, no matter what, ultimately this operation needed to happen. |
| 0:51.3 | That's the question of why now. |
| 0:52.3 | But this operation needed to happen. Because Iran in about a year or a year and a half would cross the line of immunity, meaning they would have so many short-range missiles, so many drones, that no one could do anything about it, because they could hold a whole world hostage. Look at the damage they're doing now. And this is a weekend Iran. Imagine a year from now. So that had to happen. Obviously, we were |
| 1:11.2 | aware of Israeli intentions and understood what that would mean for us, and we had to be prepared |
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