General (ret.) Joseph L. Votel, member of CERL’s Executive Board, appeared on Fox News to discuss mitigating the threat of an Iranian attack against Israel in response to the killing of a top Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh. Central to the deliberations of Iranian leadership are economic factors, he explains.

General Joseph L. Votel, U.S. Army (Ret.) is the former Commander of the U.S. Central Command. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security at the Middle East Institute and a member of the CERL Executive Board. Read his bio here.

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