I'm John Batchler. I welcome my colleague and co-host Bill Rajo Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracy.

And on his Long War Journal, you can routinely find reporting by his colleague, Ahmed Sharari, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

Most recently, tallying up the Arab states that are now the target of the Iranian regime now and again with drones and also now and again missiles.

I read the list.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, that is not all of them,

but those are surprisingly substantial states to attack as if they were responsible or in some way

participating in the American and Israeli attacks on Iran, which they are not.

So, Ahmed, a very good evening to you.

This happened in the middle of March.

I have no reason to believe it won't continue.

What have we learned? What have the Arab states learned of these attacks? Are they meant to be harassment? Are they meant to be existential risk? If you can't defend this one, what are you going to do when we send a wave after wave of drones? What are the Arab states themselves learn from these attacks?

Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Just to point out that these are, these attacks are

happening on a daily basis against against the Arab states. And what Iran intends or intended to

achieve by targeting the Arab states on day one of the war was to out pressure

on them and inflict maximum damage for these states to go to the to the U.S. and stop this

war. But now we're seeing a change in not the strategy but but but the Iranian tactics

in terms of what they're trying to hit and what they're targeting.

And that's why we're seeing attacks on energy facilities in the Gulf states in order, again,

to increase pressure on these states, especially with the reports on the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

So Iran understands that by targeting the oil facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait, countries that are small and that can be easily, I would say, easily pressured, can get them a long way in terms of creating a front that is anti-war, or at least against the continuation of the war against Iran.

But it can also have, I mean, this can also blow back against Iranians and create a hardened front against them.

Although, I mean, the war has been going on for a month and two days,

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