The Heat: Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Base

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The crisis in the Middle East took another dramatic turn Monday with Iran firing missiles at a U.S. airbase in Qatar. The action is in response to America’s massive bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend.

Later on Monday, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Could this signal the end of the crisis?

Joining the discussion: 

  • Jamal Abdi is president of the National Iranian American Council. 
  • Dan Arbell is a veteran of the Israeli Foreign Service and currently Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Israeli Studies at American University.  
  • Kaveh Afrasiabi is an Iranian-American political scientist & author specializing in Iran’s foreign & nuclear affairs. 
  • Edmund Ghareeb is a Middle East scholar and analyst.