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Tracing recent events that led Netanyahu to launch the war against Iran

NPR | By Daniel Estrin
Published March 18, 2026 at 4:07 PM EDT

A chain of events in recent years led Israel and the U.S. to do what they had hesitated to do for decades: launch all-out war against Iran.

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Daniel Estrin is NPR's international correspondent in Jerusalem.
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