Defense Expert Deepika Saraswat on US-Israeli war against Iran
Published 19 Mar, 2026 13:27In this episode, Deepika Saraswat, an associate fellow at the West Asia Center, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, highlights how the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has hardened public sentiment against Israel and the US. She says Iran seems to have always expected these attacks to happen, and they have a strategy in place – which is to make the whole world, not just the region, bear the economic toll of this war.
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