Will war with Iran lead to terrorism here?
Think from KERA
KERA
4.7 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As the U.S. and Israel continue to bombard Iran, concerns are rising that Iran could respond with a terrorist attack. Bruce Hoffman is Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss potential dangers the U.S. must now face in retaliation for the war in Iran, what the potential for both lone-wolf and coordinated attacks might be, and efforts at the Department of Homeland Security to identify and stop them.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a thing most of us hate to talk about but can't help but worry about. |
| 0:15.1 | Since Iran doesn't have the capacity to fire a rocket that could breach U.S. airspace, |
| 0:20.3 | what else could it do to retaliate? |
| 0:23.2 | Will we see a surge of terrorist attacks on American targets? From KERA in Dallas, this is |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Chris Boyd. Violent extremists don't wield the same firepower as traditional military forces, |
| 0:36.5 | but the idea that they might strike at any place at any time |
| 0:41.0 | enables them to distract our thoughts and disrupt our lives. |
| 0:44.7 | My guest believes the US government has made a critical error |
| 0:47.5 | by dropping soft power efforts to win hearts and minds |
| 0:50.9 | away from terrorist ideologies, not to mention |
| 0:53.9 | cutting a lot of resources to |
| 0:55.3 | identify plots before they can be carried out. Bruce Hoffman is Shelby Column and Catherine W. Davis |
| 1:01.3 | Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign Relations. |
| 1:06.6 | Bruce, welcome to think. Thank you very much for having me, Chris. |
| 1:10.8 | Before this war even started, |
| 1:13.0 | you were warning that terror threats to U.S. targets |
| 1:16.4 | had actually multiplied since 9-11. |
| 1:20.3 | This is interesting and frankly disturbing |
| 1:22.6 | since I think a lot of Americans have felt |
| 1:24.6 | broadly safer in recent years |
| 1:26.9 | because we haven't had an attack |
| 1:28.6 | of the same magnitude. So tell us a little bit about that. |
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