What Is Tehran Thinking?

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A drone strike by an Iran-backed militant group, which resulted in the deaths of three U.S. service members, threatens to push the Middle East into a wider regional conflict. Iran has distanced itself from the attack, while President Biden has said that the U.S. will respond. Middle East experts Vali Nasr and Sanam Vakil join Ravi Agrawal to discuss what Tehran might be thinking at this moment. Nasr is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Vakil is the director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa program. Suggested reading: Jack Detsch: 3 Options for How Biden Could Respond to Iran Adam Weinstein and Steven Simon: U.S. Troops Are Dangerously Vulnerable in the Middle East Ravi Agrawal: Ian Bremmer: Attack on U.S. Troops a ‘Red Line’ for Biden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.2	All roads seem to lead to Iran right now.
1:16.1	Last weekend, three U.S. service members were killed in a drone attack in Jordan.
1:20.6	The White House attributes that attack to the Islamic resistance in Iraq, a coalition of militias backed by Tehran. As we know, Iran also
1:31.2	supports Hezbollah and Lebanon, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, both of whom have played a role
1:36.7	in worsening the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. And of course, Iran backs Hamas,
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