Akbar Shahid Ahmed

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7am · Is this the most dangerous era of the Iran war? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Trump's kind of determination to demonstrate his strength is very, very much driving the show right now.

And then, of course, that's Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, again, very, very interested in this idea of

If we just apply more force, we'll get better results.

But I really draw this out to kind of pre-Trump patterns in U.S.

foreign policy in that presidents have not been asked to rein in their war-making power for a very, very long time, especially in the kind of post-9-11 era where wars have dragged on in places like Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, without any check and without any clear strategic rationale while causing huge strategic and human costs.

That's a real cost.

I mean, hundreds of Iranians have lost their lives already, including many civilians, including children.

Iran is in a deep, deep economic crisis.

So there are voices within Iran saying we need to reach some sort of concession with the U.S.,

On the American side, the price is not quite being felt yet.

Yes, more service members have been killed.

It's now come out that the Pentagon was not releasing some of the injuries among American troops.

I think that's going to become a bigger story and a bigger concern.

Are Americans safe?

It's raising bigger questions about U.S.

bases.

But no, I think right now we're not in a phase of an off-ramp.

While we do know that a new diplomatic framework has been proposed by Qatar, one of the regional mediators, there's no kind of indication that it's sort of feasible.

I mean, there's no sense that either the Trump administration or Iran wants to be seen right now as shaking the other side's hand.

I am truly, as a diplomatic correspondent in D.C.

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