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Lawfare Live: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran

Benjamin Wittes, Scott R. Anderson, Troy Edwards, Ariane Tabatabai
Saturday, February 28, 2026, 2:37 PM
On March 1 at 9 am ET join the Lawfare team for a live discussion.
On March 1 at 9 am ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Public Service Fellows Ariane Tabatabai and Tory Edwards to discuss the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, Iran's response, and what may happen next.

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Scott R. Anderson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School. He previously served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State and as the legal advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Troy Edwards is a Public Service Fellow at Lawfare and a former federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He served as the Deputy Chief of the National Security Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and previously as an Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. He joined the Department through its Honors Program at the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. The opinions presented here are entirely his own and not those of the U.S. government.
Dr. Ariane Tabatabai is a Public Service Fellow at Lawfare. Previously, she served in a number of roles in the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, including most recently as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training. She is the author of No Conquest, No Defeat and the co-author of Triple Axis, as well as a number of peer-reviewed articles.
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