Nicholas Kristof
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The Don Lemon Show · HOT TOPICS | Israel-Iran Conflict Escalates - June 17th, 2025 · 17 Jun 2025
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But I think that it feels that it needs to establish deterrence.
I don't think that I mean, in Iran right now, I'm sure there are debates about whether it should make an all out effort to actually acquire nuclear weapons.
The intelligence community's judgment until now has been that it wants to acquire nuclear
fissile material to have the option of having a nuclear weapon, but not actually is not presently working on that.
I think that that could well change and this could accelerate Iran's push to a nuclear weapon.
And then what Israel is hoping for is that the regime will collapse and
That's not impossible, but I think it's pretty unlikely.
It's you don't normally see air bombing as a route to actually overturn or engender some kind of bottom up uprising.
I think it's strategic overreach.
Look, Bibi Netanyahu for...
years, for decades, has been wanting to take out the Iranian regime.
And I mean, you know, he has reasons.
Iran has played a horrible role around the region.
It is threatening to Israel in fundamental ways.
And I think Netanyahu felt
You know that he'd been that the previous strikes have been encouraging.
He did manage to dramatically reduce the viability of Hezbollah in Lebanon, a main Iranian proxy, and he'd managed to take out Iranian air defenses.
He certainly in the Israeli intelligence is just kind of amazing.
What they did initially in Lebanon and what they did more recently in Iran is they're astonishingly good at that.
And so I think he saw a pathway to really badly degrade Iran.
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