Alan Dershowitz and Dave Smith went 90 Minutes on the Iran War, and it got as Heated as You’d Expect
By Mario Nawfal
Dershowitz argues the war was justified before the first strike, and he builds the case from 1935, the year Europe could have stopped Hitler cheaply and chose not to.
Smith argues the opposite from the wars he actually lived through, Iraq to Libya, and says this one is the most reckless decision of the lot.
From there it covers the ground that matters: whether any of the war’s stated goals were ever reachable, what reopening Hormuz would really take, whether sanctions hit regimes or the people under them,
the Netanyahu remark everyone’s quoting, and Gaza.
Debates like this barely exist anymore, most rooms are built so nobody has to face the strongest version of the other side. This one wasn’t.
Worth the full 90. Watch the full debate.
Alan Dershowitz and Dave Smith went 90 minutes on the Iran war, and it got as heated as you’d expect…
Dershowitz argues the war was justified before the first strike, and he builds the case from 1935, the year Europe could have stopped Hitler cheaply and chose not to.… pic.twitter.com/Hb84cL51N8
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 3, 2026
