Expert viewpoints on the Iran war

The Middle East is in a state of war, with airstrikes and counterstrikes targeting sites in Iran and among U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf region. Yet questions remain about the future of Iran, the impact on its nuclear program, and the effects on oil going through the Straits of Hormuz.

To learn more about the war and the possible outcomes, Penn Today consulted experts on defense, diplomacy, and the Middle East: Michael Horowitz, faculty director of Perry World House (PWH), Richard Perry Professor of Political Science, and former deputy assistant secretary of defense; Marie Harf, executive director of PWH and former senior advisor for strategic communications to the secretary of state; Daniel Schneiderman, director of global policy programs at Penn Washington and former Department of Defense senior coordinator for Afghanistan; and Huss Banai, a nonresident senior advisor with PWH.