The Iran war may be entering one of its most dangerous phases yet. Trump has rejected Tehran’s latest diplomatic off-ramp, the fallout from a tense UN General Assembly is still unfolding, and both Washington and Tehran now risk becoming trapped in a confrontation in which neither side appears willing to blink first.
Trita joins me again to unpack what Iran actually offered Trump, why Washington rejected it, and whether the White House is gambling that continued military and economic pressure will eventually force Tehran to accept terms it has so far refused. We examine what happens if that calculation is wrong — and whether rejecting an imperfect deal has made a longer, more destructive conflict increasingly difficult to escape.
And we turn to Israel amid new revelations and renewed questions over what Israeli officials knew ahead of the October 7 attacks, what warnings were available, and what the emerging evidence could mean for the continuing political reckoning over one of the most consequential intelligence and security failures in Israel’s history.
From Trump’s rejected Iran deal and the battle of wills with Tehran to Israel, October 7 and the rapidly shifting balance of power across the Middle East, this is a conversation about a conflict reaching another critical juncture — and whether the decisions being made now are closing the remaining paths out.
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