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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

With all eyes on Putin, enter Iran — a conversation in Jerusalem

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

Government, Israel, Society, Hamas, News, October 7, Politics, News Commentary, Palestine, War, Geopolitics

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

While the world is watching every development on the Russia-Ukraine border, the United States and Iran may be close to a deal on Iran’s nuclear program. To help us understand what could happen next, Yaakov Katz – Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post and a former advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett – joins the podcast. How does the increasing likelihood of an agreement between the U.S. and Iran change Israeli calculations? Does it increase the possibility of an Israeli military strike? What would that mean for Israel, or the Arab world and the broader Middle East, and for energy markets? And with Russia escalating tensions with Ukraine, how does it impact the emerging crisis with Iran? Can we learn anything about Israeli intentions from Israel’s strike against Iraq’s nuclear program in 1981 and Syria’s nuclear program in 2007? Before becoming Editor-in-Chief at The Jerusalem Post, Yaakov Katz served as the paper's military reporter and defense analyst. He is the author of "Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power" and co-author of two books: "Weapon Wizards - How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower" and "Israel vs. Iran - The Shadow War" "Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power": https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shadow-strike-yaakov-katz/1129520355 "Weapon Wizards - How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower": https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-weapon-wizards-yaakov-katz/1123749307

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there's no question that if they were to enrich uranium to 90% levels, there's no other purpose

0:06.5

but to obtain a nuclear weapon.

0:08.9

At 10% to 3.67% to 20%, You could still say maybe science, maybe research, maybe medical reasons.

0:16.6

90% there's no other alternative. There's nothing. It's just a nuclear weapon. While the world, while the world is watching every development on the Russia-Ukraine border, the

0:37.8

U.S. and Iran may be very close to reaching a deal in Iran's nuclear program, and

0:42.3

this would have staggering geopolitical

0:44.8

implications for a number of countries, especially the one I'm in right now,

0:48.8

Israel. While I'm here in Jerusalem I wanted to catch up with Yachov Katz, editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post.

0:56.5

Yachov is also a former advisor to Prime Minister Bennett in one of Bennett's previous stints as a government

1:02.3

minister when I first got to know him.

1:04.3

Now how does the increasing likelihood of an agreement between the US and Iran change Israeli calculations?

1:11.6

Does it increase the possibility of an Israeli military strike?

1:15.0

What would that mean for Israel?

1:17.0

For the Arab world and for the broader Middle East?

1:20.0

And what about for energy markets?

1:22.0

And with Russia escalating tensions with Ukraine right now, how does that impact the

1:26.6

emerging crisis with Iran?

1:29.0

Finally, can we learn anything about Israeli intentions and calculations

1:32.8

from Israel's strike against Iraq's nuclear program in 1981 and Syria's nuclear

1:38.8

program in 2007. Lots to consider, lots of discuss.

1:43.1

Yakov is full of insights and reporting.

1:46.0

Before becoming editor-in-chief at the Jerusalem Post, he served for a decade as the

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