British historian and geopolitical commentator Mark Almond says the US government may hope airstrikes and overwhelming force will bring Tehran to heel, but history suggests wars between democracies and ideological regimes rarely end so neatly.
Almond, who has written for The Independent, Daily Mail and The Telegraph, among others, is the director of the Crisis Research Institute in Oxford (CRIOx), an organization dedicated to analyzing historical and contemporary crises.
He joins Jim to discuss what history can teach us about the possible outcome of the Iran war.
A man watches a televised statement by Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei on March 12, 2026. Photo: AFP
