Voice of America | The Middle East reaches dangerous pivotal moment - October 04, 2024 @VOANews | Uploaded 1 week ago | Updated 1 day ago
Fears of a wider regional war in the Middle East may already be a reality after Iran’s missile attack and Israel’s military operations targeting militants on two fronts. Could the U.S. be dragged into war? After months of working toward a peace agreement and warnings of a wider war, what if anything can the Biden Administration do? We get perspective from Bruce Riedel, with the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy. Intensifying hostilities come just days ahead of the one-year mark of the October 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.