War with Iran

Allison Minor, director of the Atlantic Council’s Project for Middle East Integration, breaks down how Iran's strikes across all six Gulf states are reshaping the region's security landscape and threatening the economic foundations Gulf countries have spent years building. Minor warns the fallout could force difficult choices on many issues, including US bases, investor confidence, and how to deal with Tehran long-term.

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As Iran escalates its conflict with the United States and Israel across the Middle East, Victoria Taylor, director of the Iraq Initiative at the Atlantic Council, says Tehran's effort to expand the fighting was "not a surprise" following the initial strikes.

"While Iran's effort to really expand the conflict is expected, the reaction from the Gulf countries has perhaps been a little bit different than I might have anticipated," she adds.

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As AI transforms modern warfare, Joe Costa, director of the Forward Defense Initiative at the Atlantic Council, says US adversaries and allies are “studying how we’re using it” in the war with Iran.

“This is going to spark a lot of questions on our reliance on Claude right now and what it means as we think of that larger conversation” with the Department of War, he adds.

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The Strait of Hormuz covers about 20% of global oil and gas, says the Atlantic Council's Landon Derentz. If traffic through the Strait is restricted, "there will be a meaningful energy price response, but that takes time," he said.

Iran has "five high-level laboratories in and around Tehran suspected of producing biological agents," says Asha George, director of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense at the Atlantic Council. She outlines the potential biosafety risks facing US soldiers in the event of a ground mobilization if those sites were not taken out in airstrikes.

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“There are people from inside [Iran] from whom we receive videos where they are celebrating his death [...] There are victims and survivors that I’ve spoken to who lament and regret that they will not be able to see him in a courtroom where they would want him to answer for his crimes.”

American-Iranian human rights lawyer and Director of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project Gissou Nia narrates how Iranians are responding to the killing of Ali Khamenei.

“We see that Trump is quite willing to use force in short, sharp, decisive ways.”

Matthew Kroenig, Vice president for Geostrategy, and Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security analyzes how President Trump’s 'peace through strength doctrine' is unfolding in Iran.

What the US wants is for Iran to make "different choices about how they treat the people and how they make the foreign policy decisions," says the Atlantic Council's Nate Swanson.

Swanson points to Henry Kissinger's quote from 2006, asking is "Iran a country or a cause," to outline the choice for Iranian leaders now in charting their path forward.

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“This war has just started—it may be short or it may be long.” Speaking from Tel-Aviv, former US Ambassador to Israel and Atlantic Council Distinguished Fellow Daniel Shapiro breaks down the past 24 hours in the Middle East and what could come next.

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