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The Iran War: Collapse, Chaos, and What Comes Next

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The Iran War: Collapse, Chaos, and What Comes Next
Iranians walk past a large billboard depicting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on a street in Tehran on April 20, 2026. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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This is a lightly edited transcript of an April 29th segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast.

We’re in the eighth week of the Iran war, and things are starting to heat up even though there’s not kinetic action. What do I mean by heating up? The Iranian government has ceased to exist. We don’t know, and the Iranians don’t know who holds power.

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Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
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