Three weeks of war in Iran, multiple fronts, and the two allies Israel and the United States still hand in hand both literally and figuratively as seen in a video published on March 17th on Benyamin Netanyahou’s X account in the presence of US Ambassador to Jerusalem Mike Huckabee. Over 11 million views. And a double message for the Israeli Prime Minister: I am very much alive despite rumors describing me as an AI on social media, and I am successfully obtaining the main heads of the Iranian regime.
Another two major figures targeted by Israel this week: Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council in Iran, and General Gholam-reza Soleimani, head of the Basij militia, a private police force under the authority of the Revolutionary Guards that controls the citizens. Two leaders of the Mullahs’ regime eliminated by Israel that resonate with the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the first day of the Iran war, and the intelligence services’ firepower, we will talk about it.
Meanwhile, in the United States, intelligence officials are embarrassed, and the president seems embroiled. Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns dramatically stating, “Iran did not pose an imminent threat to our nation.”
After the Gulf’s oil infrastructure, now nuclear sites are being targeted in the region. On Saturday, March 20th, the largest Iranian nuclear enrichment site, Natanz, is hit by Israel and the United States together, in retaliation, Iran targets the Dimona nuclear research center in Israel that same evening.
How far will the escalation go? And what could come out of it?
The Broadcast Archives
- Benyamin Netanyahou and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on March 17: https://x.com/netanyahu/status/2033938254831956091?s=46
- Ghassan Salamé, the Lebanese Minister of Culture, interviewed by France Info on March 17: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/podcasts/les-documents-franceinfo/liban-la-nouvelle-strategie-d-israel-est-d-interdire-aux-civils-de-rentrer-chez-eux-1461504
- Extract broadcast by BFMTV of Tulsi Gabbard, National Intelligence Director in the United States, auditioned at the Senate on March 18: https://x.com/linformatrice1/status/2034338178748866871?s=46
To read, watch, listen to: recommendations from our guests
- Tara Varma recommends Elif Shafak’s latest books: “The Rivers of Heaven” and “The Lost Fruit Tree Rule.”
- Astrid de Villaines invites you to see the “Global Warning” exhibition by Martin Parr at the Jeu de Paume in Paris until May 24.
- Sylvie Kauffmann recommends going to see Live Magazine.
- Etienne Peyrat recommends reading Joseph Henrotin’s book “One Plane to Rule Them All: The F-35, a Prism of European Strategic Dependence” (editions du Rocher).
- Thomas Gomart suggests reading “A Very Brief Theory of Hell” by Jérémie Ferrari (editions Actes Sud).
