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Middle East Expert Bernard Haykel on the Three Futures for Iran After the Strikes

Middle East Expert Bernard Haykel on the Three Futures for Iran After the Strikes

The Mishal Husain Show vor 7 Monaten

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Within 24 hours of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, a host of
other countries were drawn into the latest conflict in the Middle
East.

Iran retaliated by targeting sites in Israel and across the Gulf,
including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, as
well as Iraq, Oman and Jordan. Israel, meanwhile, has carried out
air strikes on Lebanon and sent in ground troops as it seeks to
dismantle Iranian ally Hezbollah.

For this conversation, Mishal Husain has turned to an expert on
the broad sweep of Middle East politics. Bernard Haykel is a
professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Born
in Lebanon, he is known for weaving together knowledge of
history, religion and social change across the region. His
forthcoming book is about contemporary Saudi Arabia and its
leader, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, with whom he is in
regular contact.

02:45 - “I was not surprised”

03:40 - The Iranian retaliation

09:00 - The three scenarios in this conflict

11:00 - “This regime will survive”

13:20 Protests after Khamenei's death

15:35 Did MBS encourage the strikes on Iran?

18:40 The Saudi Air Force will get “involved”

21:30 Trump and MBS

25:00 MBS “doesn’t want wars”

27:00 Saudi competition with UAE

29:18 MBS is “a bit like Elon Musk”

30:30 MBS is an authoritarian 33:00 The US has a “role to play”
in the Middle East

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www.bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview

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