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Simon Sebag-Montefiore on the Iran war: Trump’s mistakes, Israel’s overreach and the end of the ‘Middle East’

Simon Sebag-Montefiore on the Iran war: Trump’s mistakes, Israel’s overreach and the end of the ‘Middle East’

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"Israel is in a situation of kind of spectacular military
virtuosity, but also strategic impoverishment. You cannot kill
everybody."

On today’s bank holiday bonus episode of Iran: the Latest,
Venetia Rainey speaks to historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore to get
a historian’s view of the US-Israel-Iran war. Simon argues that
Donald Trump’s biggest mistake was not stopping after 2025’s
Operation Midnight Hammer, and that Benjamin Netanyahu is leading
his country into a potential intra-Jewish civil war.

Plus, why the Iranian regime is a Mahdist-praetorian oligarchy,
how the geopolitical concept of "the Middle East" became
obsolete, and which dictators from the region’s modern history
haunt him.

Simon Sebag Montefiore’s new book, The Cauldron: The Making of
the Modern Middle East, is out now.

Highlights

Trump’s mistakes, Israel’s overreach and the end of the
‘Middle East’

Historian and author Simon Sebag-Montefiore on the Iran war

CONTRIBUTORS:

Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey

Simon Sebag-Montefiore, historian and author @simonmontefiore

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CONTENT REFERENCED:

Simon Sebag Montefiore: Appeasing radical activists will make the
West ungovernable

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/simon-sebag-montefiore-the-cauldron-interview/

Simon Sebag Montefiore: Starmer’s foreign policy risks rewarding
aggressive extremists

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/07/montefiore-starmers-foreign-policy-rewards-extremists/

Winner Best News and Analysis Podcast - Publisher Podcast Awards
2026

Nominated Podcast of the Year - Society of Editors News Podcasts
Awards 2026

Nominated Best News, Politics and Current Affairs - British
Podcast Awards 2026

The Telegraph, Winner Podcast Publisher of the Year 2026 -
Publisher Podcast Awards 2026

Audio Producer: Joleen Goffin

Video Producer: Max Bower

Researcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh

Studio Operator: Andy Watson

Executive Producer: Venetia Rainey

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