In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iranian proxies for attacking his country. Iran doesn’t recognise Israel’s right to exist, and wants to eradicate it as a Jewish state. The Tehran government has provided arms, training and funding to both Hamas in Gaza, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. But what is its practical end game?

 Adrian Goldberg talks toJames M Dorsey, who write The Turbulent World substack, and is an adjunct senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.

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