but there have been strikes since october the 7th, and this has still happened, as barbara starrjust said, it hasn t acted as a deterrent. so couldn t you argue, as republicans do in congress right now, that this strategy of containment and the approach that biden administration is taking towards iran is failing? i m not sure necessarily that as far as containment or as far as even deterrence. these are still very subjective words. it s hard to measure. it s hard to know where these lines are drawn. but i do think something suggesting a strike inside of iran, that would definitely be escalatory. and given the greater context of what is happening on the lebanese border with israel, what is happening in the red sea, what s also happening elsewhere in the region, that would be quite escalatory, and so i think there is a balancing act that has to take place. and that even outside of this there are other strategic priorities that the us has to address as well, going on with ukrain
bases across the region. there have been dozens of drone and missile attacks in recent months, but no american personnel have been killed until now. joe biden, seen here attending church, was quick to point the finger. we know it was carried out by radical iran backed militant groups operating in syria and iraq, he said. it s not necessarily a tipping point into uncontrolled escalation between the united states and iran, but it s another very dangerous step because, as i say, the us will have to respond even more strongly than it s done to previous attacks. carefully cultivated over years, iran has a wide network of allies and proxies operating in countries across the middle east. they re all opposed to israel and the united states. it s sometimes called the axis of resistance. there are pro iranian militias in lebanon, the palestinian territories, gaza and the west bank, plus iraq and syria, and far to the south, there s also the houthis in yemen. over the weekend, the hou
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