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Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

The war in Iran began with the brute force of the American and Israeli militaries.

The U.S. military says they have executed more than 5,000 strikes so far, which is more than whole years of the Iraq War.

That is to say, we spend a lot of money on our weapons and those have been unleashed.

But wars do not only have one side, and this particular one probably has a dozen.

We're going to talk about how the entire Middle East has been pulled into this conflict and how its

repercussions could hit home here in the U.S. We're joined by Mona Yakubian, who's director and senior

advisor of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Welcome,

Mona. Thank you so much. A pleasure to be with you. Great to have you. We're also joined by Dahlia Dassa

Kay, who's a senior fellow at the UCLA Berkel Center for International Relations. She's the author

of the book, Enduring Hostility, The Making of America's Iran Policy. Welcome, Dalia.

Great to be with you. Thanks. And we're also going to start with

Nabiboulos, who is Middle East Bureau Chief with the Los Angeles Times. Nabi joins us from

Beirut. Welcome. Going, how are you? Good, good. Nabi, just tell us what it's like in Beirut.

There have been strikes by the Israeli military just tell us what it's like in Beirut.

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