Jennifer Welsh on Israel-Iran Tensions and What’s at Stake at the G7 Summit | CBC Radio

June 15, 2025 | Jennifer Welsh joined CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay to analyze how rising tensions between Israel and Iran are shaping the global security landscape—just as G7 leaders gather in Alberta. Speaking alongside former Canadian ambassador Arif Lalani, Welsh described Israel’s latest military strikes as unusually ambitious in scale and timing. She emphasized that the attacks appear strategically aimed at delaying or derailing renewed U.S.-Iran nuclear talks and exploiting a moment of perceived Iranian vulnerability, with its regional proxies weakened. Citing recent reports that Iran breached the Non-Proliferation Treaty for the first time in two decades, Welsh argued the operation had long been in the works and reflected Prime Minister Netanyahu’s broader ambitions to confront what he views as an existential threat.