Edward Luttwak & Arta Moeini

What happens next inside Iran?


March 6, 2026
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UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers hosts a debate on the internal future of Iran featuring two clashing geopolitical perspectives: Professor Edward Luttwak – a strategist and expert on international diplomacy, who argues that the Trump administration is successfully pursuing a strategy to achieve regime change via surgical airstrikes; and Dr Arta Moeini – international political theorist and a realist thinker, who warns that the West is dangerously underestimating the resilience of Iran’s decentralised “total state”, and that direct attacks could fuel a civil war that accelerates a global shift toward a new world order dominated by China.


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