Michael Knights is the Jill and Jay Bernstein Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and cofounder of the Militia Spotlight platform, which offers in-depth analysis of developments related to Iran-backed militias.
Farzin Nadimi, a Senior Fellow with The Washington Institute, is a Washington-based analyst specializing in the security and defense affairs of Iran and the Persian Gulf region.
Brig. Gen. Assaf Orion (Res.) is The Washington Institute’s Rueven International Fellow, a senior research fellow at INSS, and former head of the IDF Strategic Planning Division.
Brief Analysis
Watch an expert conversation examining regional and global implications of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.
As Iran and Israel continue exchanging military strikes, many questions about the endgame and potential geopolitical consequences remain unanswered. In Iran, is the leadership’s calculus shifting as the conflict goes on? What would trigger Tehran and its proxies in Iraq and other theaters to widen their attacks on American and Gulf targets? In Israel, how do officials assess their military performance so far and the prospects of escalation, with or without U.S. cooperation? And what outcome does Russia seek, particularly in terms of its growing strategic partnership with Iran?
To discuss these issues, The Washington Institute hosted a virtual Policy Forum with four American and Israeli experts, to be moderated by Grant Rumley, the Institute’s Meisel-Goldberger Senior Fellow and director of its Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East:
Brig. Gen. Assaf Orion, IDF (Res.), The Washington Institute’s Rueven International Fellow, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, and former head of the Israel Defense Forces Strategic Planning Division.
The Policy Forum series is made possible through the generosity of the Florence and Robert Kaufman Family.
