Elisa Catalano Ewers: Israeli leadership moves to destabilise regime’s leadership structure

Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Elisa Catalano Ewers, Senior Fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Our guest sees Israeli strategy as driven by a perceived window of opportunity to destabilize the Iranian regime from within. Their approach is not one of immediate collapse, but of calculated and sustained pressure, targeting leadership structures and security capabilities in ways designed to accumulate strain over time.