Episode Notes:

Iran has targeted multiple Arab states in response to the U.S. and Israeli strikes that began on Feb. 28. Afshon talks with Sanam Vakil about where relations between Iran and the Arab Gulf states stood before the war, surprise over the extent of Iranian strikes on Arab countries, and how the war is likely to shape Arab Gulf states' foreign policy into the future. Sanam is director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House and the James Anderson professorial lecturer at Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe.

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