Iran’s fight for survival / The widening war / Trump’s nebulous goals

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran is spilling out across the region. What are the goals? And how does it end?

Host Mary Louise Kelly talks with International Correspondent Aya Batrawy, based in Dubai, and Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman, about the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Six days of war have turned the middle east upside down, and it's still not clear how the U.S. will determine when its objectives have been accomplished.

Recommended Iran reading:

Blackwave by Kim Ghattas
All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
Prisoner by Jason Rezaian
Persian Mirrors by Elaine Sciolino

Listener spy novel recommendation: 


Pariah by Dan Fesperman

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