As we taped this episode of Honestly, it was 3 a.m. in Israel. Sirens wailed across the country as Iranian missiles rained down on Israeli towns.

At the same time, Israel was striking military and nuclear sites inside Iran, and oil fields were aflame.

Meanwhile in Washington, reports were emerging of a heated debate inside the White House over whether the U.S. should get involved in the war.

It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of this story—or how uncertain the outcome is for Israel.

There’s no one better to help us make sense of this war than Michael Doran—senior fellow and director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East.

This has been his story not just for the past few days—for the last decade, no one has written more, and more brilliantly, about Iran’s nuclear aspirations and Washington’s posture toward Iran than Mike. 

And he just wrote for The Free Press “The Ultimate Deception: How Trump and Bibi Outfoxed Iran.”

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