Aug 3, 2026 · 30 min · 11 segments
The Middle East is rapidly transforming before our very eyes. It seems that every day there is a new major development that would have been impossible to predict just five years ago. While…
If you follow the news, even in a less neurotic fashion than we do here, you may be wondering, is the war with Iran escalating? And if it is, should it be? Are Lebanon and Israel, in fact, on a road to peace? Who are actually friends with each other in this region? And now quiet Jordan is in the mix.
To unpack these questions, I've invited back the vice president of national security at the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Victoria Coates.
Now, I might need to give a slight edit to the news point that I made from before.
While we are neurotically watching the news, you are ubiquitously on the news.
So we are often watching you commenting on things that are happening all over the Middle East, but beyond as well.
So it is an opportunity all on Iran, but an opportunity to look at it from several different angles.
And so, you know, it's an honor to have these chances to spend some time on the news, communicate with the American people.
And I'm glad that I get to have you here as well to kind of unpack a little bit further.
So I hope I don't give you any sort of bad deja vu moments as we talk about some similar topics.
If you follow the news, even in a less neurotic fashion than we do here, you may be wondering, is the war with Iran escalating? And if it is, should it be? Are Lebanon and Israel, in fact, on a road to peace? Who are actually friends with each other in this region? And now quiet Jordan is in the mix.
To unpack these questions, I've invited back the vice president of national security at the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Victoria Coates.
Now, I might need to give a slight edit to the news point that I made from before.
While we are neurotically watching the news, you are ubiquitously on the news.
So we are often watching you commenting on things that are happening all over the Middle East, but beyond as well.
So it is an opportunity all on Iran, but an opportunity to look at it from several different angles.
And so, you know, it's an honor to have these chances to spend some time on the news, communicate with the American people.
And I'm glad that I get to have you here as well to kind of unpack a little bit further.
So I hope I don't give you any sort of bad deja vu moments as we talk about some similar topics.
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We're Bombing Them Anyway
Her blunt take on coming Iran strikes
Dirty Secret: Terror Talks
Coates drops secret about US terror talks
Arab States Strike Iran Together
Here Coates reveals unprecedented anti-Iran cooperation news
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