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Hello and welcome back to another conversation about conflict on an angry planet.

I am Matthew Galt.

We are again talking about Iran today.

We're going to have a different perspective, but I think one that is necessary.

And I've got a great guest for it.

Sir, will you introduce yourself to the audience?

Well, first, thank you very much, Matthew, for having me.

And my name is Mohanah Saluma.

I am an assistant professor in international politics and security at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

I'm based here in Doha, Qatar.

And before that, I was an associate lecturer at the University of Exeter in the UK.

So we're here today to talk to you because I got sent last week you published this thing in Al Jazeera.

The U.S. Israel strategy against Iran is working here is why.

I think five different people sent this to me.

And I had all kinds of different reactions from, can you believe this to what do you think about this?

Some people with more open hearts.

But I think that it's, it has a lot of important stuff in it.

And I think that in America, we tend to get obsessed with the domestic piece of this, and we don't pay attention to what's going on in the region and what's happening to Iran's neighbors.

But this also was eight days ago, I guess nine days ago now that this published.

And I got to ask, has anything changed in the way you're thinking?

Have you updated? Like, what are you feeling now?

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