Can a regional war be avoided with Iran?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Over the weekend, the U.S. launched retaliatory strikes against Iranian proxies further raising tensions in the Middle East. How will Iran respond? Dan Byman and Afshon Ostovar join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:36.0 | Hello everyone, thank you so much for joining me. I'm |
| 0:39.0 | Frederica Whitfield. |
| 0:40.0 | Three US troops were killed and at least two dozen more injured in a drone attack on a small US |
| 0:46.2 | outpost in Jordan. |
| 0:48.1 | This is the first time... |
| 0:49.3 | That was on Sunday January 28th. |
| 0:52.3 | The White House blamed the drone attack on an Iran-backed |
| 0:55.1 | militia group. Shortly after, President Joe Biden said the attack would not go |
| 1:00.6 | unanswered, but... I don't think we need a wider war in the Middle East that's |
| 1:05.6 | not what I'm looking for. On February 2nd the US conducted a retaliatory |
| 1:10.9 | attack in Iraq and Syria at seven facilities utilized by Iran's |
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