WTH Live! The Future Of The Israel-Iran War. Elliott Abrams, David Deptula, and Eyal Hulata Explain

After a year of fighting between Israel, Iranian proxies, and now
Iran itself, it’s still unclear how this war will end. Hezbollah
and Hamas are militarily devastated. The Iranian regime has never
looked weaker. But the Israel-Hamas war is also nowhere close to
being settled, Israel is only now beginning its operations in
southern Lebanon, and the world is still awaiting Israeli
retaliation for Iran’s October 1 missile attack. In this episode
of WTH Live! Elliott Abrams, David Deptula, and Eyal Hulata join
Dany at AEI to discuss what the future of Israel’s de facto war
with Iran should and will look like.


Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He previously served as
deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security
advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where
he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House,
and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the
administration of Donald Trump.


Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula (Ret.) serves as the Dean of the
Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Gen. Deptula was the
principal attack planner for the Operation Desert Storm air
campaign, commander of no-fly-zone operations over Iraq in the
late 1990s, director of the air campaign over Afghanistan in
2001, and has served on two congressional commissions charged
with outlining America’s future defense posture. Gen. Deptula
retired from the Air Force in 2010 after more than 34 years of
distinguished service.


Eyal Hulata is a senior international fellow at the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies. Eyal previously served as Israel’s
national security advisor and head of Israel’s National Security
Council (NSC). During his tenure, Eyal coordinated the national
effort on Iran, coordinated the maritime border agreement with
Lebanon, and co-headed the Strategic Consultation Group with his
American counterpart, Jake Sullivan.


Read the transcript here.


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