Edwin brings you Israel Strikes Iran: Operation Rising Lion: The 20-Year Backstory. Available from Amazon at noon on July 10. 2025; globally thereafter.

Israel Strikes Iran: Operation Rising Lion—The 20-Year Backstory is the stunning and dramatic account of how the Iranian regime labored for decades to launch nuclear missiles against Israel to usher in an apocalyptic paradise, and how Israel raced to stop them. It all resulted in the dramatic Operation Rising Lion, culminating in the 12-Day War. Famed investigative historian Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust and The Farhud, delivers another extraordinary book achievement.

Edwin reveals the knowns and unknowns about Israel’s strike, America’s follow-up, and what may come next. With Clare Lopez and Ken Abramowitz.

On October 7, 1,000 Hamas terrorists invaded Israel. Atrocities ensued against innocent civilian men, women, and children. Scores were abducted into Gaza. Israel has declared war and promised to utterly destroy Hamas and its infrastructure with an “unprecedented response.”

Yossie Hollander, Nathan Lewin, and Alex Traiman join Edwin, with additional reports from John Hajjar, Walid Phares, Marina Rosenberg, and Dor Weiss.

Iran is very close to assembling five nuclear weapons for launch. Israel has promised to destroy Iran’s program—and soon. When will the standoff become the showdown, impacting the world forever? Foreign policy expert and Iran watcher Josh Block joins Edwin.

Can a multifront shooting war break out? Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran, North Korea. Threat analyst Ken Abramowitz, author of The Multifront War, and Hudson Institute geopolitical strategist Josh Block join Edwin to analyze the … unthinkable.

Hear up-to-the-minute military and political reports on Israel’s next big military moves in Iran and Lebanon. Top Mideast security analyst Walid Phares, Lebanese commentator Elie Khawand, and Hudson Institute Foreign Policy Fellow Josh Block join Edwin.

Join Edwin for up-to-the-minute military and political reports on the Gaza ceasefire, Israel’s next big military defense system, the looming threat from Iran and possible strike by Israel, plus the synchronized explosion of antisemitic violence by pro-Palestinian mobs in America and organized Jew hatred on campus.

If conflict breaks out between Iran and Israel, Tehran will order Hezbollah to attack, dragging Lebanon into a ferocious—and tragic—war with the Jewish State. Israel has been preparing its next Lebanon battle for years. A combination of rapid new and massively more destructive weapons coordinated by artificial intelligence will make this war 10 times as intense as the last encounter. With Hezbollah embedding thousands of missiles in civilian locations, the fight will probably exceed the “laws of war” and devastate populated areas—which Iran desires. The Lebanese people will suffer most.

Eran Lerman, VP, the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, John Hajjar, US director, World Council for the Cedars Revolution, Steven Emerson, founder of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and JNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman join Edwin to drill into the details.