You know, we have had in the past, you know, a two-front war, two-front proxy war with iran in terms of the iranian surrogates, militias, and terrorist groups in syria and iraq firing at u.s. bases and troops. now we ve opened a third front with the houthis in iranian proxy. at the end of the day, i think we also have to see what the iranians are going to do in kind of allowing the houthis to respond or not. some tense times, but we had to take this strike. there was no doubt that this was an action the biden administration had to go forward with. well, based on your knowledge, what do you think the iranians are going to do? that s a really good question. the conventional wisdom says iran does not want to see escalation with the united states. i think they signaled that through intermediaries to the u.s. let s see what they allow their houthi allies to do right now. there might be just symbolic attacks. the one thing that i think concerns a lot of us, and one of the reasons why tha
Provide a deterrent in the red sea against american escalation in the red sea. we ve also seen iran-backed groups in syria firing into israel and firing against american targets in syria and iran backed groups in iraq firing against american targets. today we saw that the americans fired against an iran-backed group in iraq. so we re seeing what looks like an escalation, not just between the gazans and between israel, but also region wide, and we re seeing for the first time this iran-backed axis of resistance. we re seeing different disparate groups in different countries throughout the region firing at american and israeli targets. that s why we re seeing this threat escalate so much, and we ve heard that from the white house too. matt miller said at the state department briefing just today, he talked about the warnings and the risks of a regional escalation. here s what he said. i would say the risk is real.