Getting Iran Right with Danny Citrinowicz

Weeks before the war broke out, Danny Citrinowicz was already warning that Israel's read on Iran was heading somewhere dangerous. In this episode of ROPESCAST, he walks through what he saw coming — and why.We cover the full landscape of options on the table for Iran, the US, Israel, and the wider region, and what each side actually stood to gain or lose from escalation. Citrinowicz also critically asseses the almost unbelievable inside story of how Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — a figure many assumed was a natural extremist — was in fact recruited by the Mossad and propped up as a possible replacement to the current Iranian regime.The conversation closes on Citrinowicz's central argument: that no strategy toward Iran can succeed in isolation. He makes the case that Israel must confront the Palestinian conflict head-on — not as a separate issue, but as the very lever Iran uses to extend its reach across the Middle East. Without addressing that core wound, he argues, Israel will keep fighting Iran's proxies while leaving Iran's actual playbook untouched.Chapters: 00:00 – The Warning Before the War01:35 – Was This War a Mistake?07:16 – Why Iran Won't Fold09:55 – The Gulf's Impossible Position13:55 – Saudi Arabia's Nuclear Future19:22 – A New Middle East?21:53 – The Ahmadinejad Bombshell27:58 – Winning Battles, Losing Strategy?30:32 – What Israel Must Do Next35:02 – The Key to Countering Iran🌐 Learn more about ROPES:  ropes.org📩 Don’t forget to subscribe to the ROPESCAST for more stories of peace, dialogue, and impact across the Middle East.