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It would be, I compare it to, it would be like a red state revolt of Donald Trump in the United States. All all of a sudden states like Mississippi and Alabama

and Arkansas and Georgia started protesting,

took to the streets against Donald Trump's policies. You're listening to war college, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Matthew. I'm Jason Fields. Co-host Matthew Golf is on a diplomatic mission to Alderman.

We are very aware that we've been spending a lot of time in the Middle East lately.

But I don't think you can blame us. It's a uniquely tense place.

The armed forces of Syria, Russia, Turkey, the United States, Israel, Iraq, and Iran are all taking part in the fighting.

And that's not to mention non-state actors like the Kurds and Syrian rebels of every possible stripe at this point, from secular to religious extremist.

Today we're focusing on Iran.

Amir Hanjani is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and an

expert on Iran.

He also wrote some fantastic op-eds for me when I was an editor at Reuters.

Thanks for joining us.

A pleasure to be with you and I hope I'm still writing fantastic

up-ins for winners since you've left.

You still are. I just don't have the pleasure of editing them anymore.

So it's my loss, but no Reuters is still doing fine.

Under the deal. So can we just start off with sort of a bit of a primer?

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