Perry World House in the News on Iran
Posted: 4th March 2026
Perry World House Executive Director Marie Harf, Perry World House Faculty Director Michael C. Horowitz, and Non-Resident Senior Advisor Hussein “Huss” Banai have been in the news commenting on the U.S. and Israel’s strikes against Iran. Click the links below to learn more.
“Two wrongs don’t make a right in the Iran war,” by Hussein “Huss” Banai, The Globe and Mail
“What ultimately produced this war was not the Islamic Republic’s cruelty but the Trump administration’s inability to decide what it actually wanted. Containment treats a hostile government as a permanent feature of the landscape and works to modify its behaviour through pressure and negotiation. Regime change treats every negotiation as a performance and every concession as a lifeline to a system that deserves to fall.”
Michael C. Horowitz is quoted in “AI in defense: How Anthropic, OpenAI are helping the US, Israel shape modern warfare” by Amichai Stein, The Jerusalem Post
”The objection to autonomous weapon systems was not moral or ethical. Their objection was that they thought the technology wasn’t ready for prime time yet.”
Watch hereMarie Harf joined Jessica Yellin on Yellin’s Substack “News Not Noise”to discuss why the U.S. and Israel struck now, and what next steps could look like.
Watch here