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Lawfare Live: U.S. Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Sites

Benjamin Wittes, Scott R. Anderson, Suzanne Maloney, Daniel Byman
Monday, June 23, 2025, 9:38 AM
Join the Lawfare team at 11:30 am ET for a discussion on the legality of the June 21 attacks.

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At 11:30 am ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will talk to Lawfare Senior Editor Scott Anderson, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Dan Byman, and Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution Suzanne Maloney about the American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

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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.
Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle East issues. Maloney recently published a book titled "Iran's Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World."
Daniel Byman is a professor at Georgetown University, Lawfare's Foreign Policy Essay editor, and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
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