22 January 2016
Tzvi Kahn, Senior Policy Analyst for the Foreign Policy Initiative, discusses the latest eruption in tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, what role the U.S. should play in the dispute and the danger of America adopting an isolationist attitude.
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