Suzanne Maloney
SUZANNE MALONEY is Vice President of the Brookings Institution and Director of its Foreign Policy program. She served as an external adviser to the U.S. State Department’s Undersecretary for Political Affairs in the Obama administration and as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff in the George W. Bush administration.
Rarely in modern history has a military offensive been as loudly and persistently foreshadowed as the June 2025 Israeli and American strikes on Iran’s nuclear program. For more than three decades, leaders in Tel Aviv and Washington have issued stark warnings about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions and activities, and five American presidents have pledged to prevent Tehran from crossing the threshold of nuclear weapons capability.
Despite this forewarning and the signals of imminent preparations, Israel’s initial attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure—capped by a brief but decisive U.S. intervention—still shocked Tehran and much of
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