In recent days, tensions have further escalated in the Middle East with U.S. strikes on reportedly Iranian-linked targets in Iraq and Syria in response to the deaths of three U.S. soldiers. There have also been U.S. co-strikes with the UK on Houthi forces which have been blamed for repeated attacks on ships in the Red Sea. What may be the response from these strikes? Are we seeing more spillover effects of the Israel-Palestine conflict?

 Guests in this edition of Dialogue are Zhao Hai, director of International Political Studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy; Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi from the University of Tehran; Kawa Hassan, nonresident fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Program; and Dan Arbell, scholar-in-residence with the Department of History at American University.