Six days on since the first US–Israeli strikes on Iran and the death of supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, comparisons to past US interventions in the region are proliferating.
Many Americans are asking whether this latest military operation will become another ‘forever war’, as the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan came to be called.
We talk to Gordon Correra, security analyst for the BBC, about America’s complicated history of intervention in the Middle East and surrounding region, and ask what these past conflicts might tell us about possible outcomes for the war in Iran.
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Chapters:
00:00 What can Trump learn from the past?
02:00 Lessons from the Iraq War
05:44 Does the US have a plan for Iran?
09:08 What is public opinion for the war in Iran?
11:58 Lessons from the Afghanistan war
17:00 Lessons from Libya and Gaddafi
20:50 Has there ever been a successful US intervention in the Middle East?
24:06 Could the conflict in Iran become the new ‘forever war’?
