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Former U.S. ambassador analyzes rising Israel-Iran conflict

Season 2025 Episode 165 | 5m 43s

Israel and Iran traded more missile strikes on Saturday. Iran’s state television reported that an Israeli airstrike on a housing complex in Tehran killed about 60 people, including 20 children. In Israel, Iranian missiles and drones have killed three and wounded dozens. Daniel Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, joins John Yang to discuss the two countries’ most intense fighting in decades.

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