{"id":335000,"date":"2026-03-12T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/335000\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:54:08","slug":"3-key-moments-that-led-to-the-u-s-iran-war-throughline-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/335000\/","title":{"rendered":"3 key moments that led to the U.S.-Iran war : Throughline : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773302048_408_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3000x1688+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb1%2Fdf%2F071cacfd4de2bb195a927437a726%2F0cfffb08-657f-4e3f-be1f-2a0b2ce8388b.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"AP273134460927.jpg\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        AP Photo\/CP\/Mohammad Sayyad<\/p>\n<p>Military confrontations, early-morning attacks, and digital warfare: the story of Iran and the U.S. from the 1979 Iranian revolution to the fraught moment we&#8217;re in today. This episode originally ran in 2019 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/17\/742712613\/rules-of-engagement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rules of Engagement<\/a>. You can find more of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/1255058395\/enter-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Throughline&#8217;s coverage into the origins of the conflict in the Middle East here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<br \/>Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/p>\n<p>Michael Eisenstadt, director of the Washington Institute&#8217;s military and security studies program<\/p>\n<p>Kim Zetter, writer for WIRED magazine and author of\u00a0Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World&#8217;s First Digital Weapon<\/p>\n<p>To access bonus episodes and listen to Throughline sponsor-free, subscribe to Throughline+ via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/12\/nx-s1-5744958\/plus.npr.org\/throughline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org\/throughline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/CP\/Mohammad Sayyad Military confrontations, early-morning attacks, and digital warfare: the story of Iran and the U.S. from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-335000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}