Why Decapitation Will Not Solve the United States’ Iran Problem

Audio Briefs

Podcast Episode by Jon B. Alterman

Published March 3, 2026

An audio version of “⁠Why Decapitation Will Not Solve the United States’ Iran Problem⁠,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Jon B. Alterman. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

Jon Alterman

Jon B. Alterman

Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy