From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.

I'm Preet Barara.

I think that people inside Iran, as I've said to before, P before, they're hungry to be South Korea, not North Korea.

You know, they want to live up to the enormous potential Iranians have as a nation.

That's Karim Saajatpur.

He's a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East.

Two weeks ago, Israel assassinated a senior Hamas leader in Tehran and atop Hezbollah commander in Beirut.

Iran has vowed to retaliate, while world leaders have urged restraint.

Saajadpur joins me to discuss Iran, Israel, and the state and fate of the Middle East.

That's coming up.

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national average thanks to a high concentration of petrochemical plants.

Here how one community is fighting against some of the top polluters in the

country in their own backyard.

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Now let's get to your questions. This question comes in a tweet from Jamie who asks,

is the DOJ actively investigating the 20 million from Egypt? Thanks Jamie

for that very important and relevant question.

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