Hi im Steve Clemons and i have tons of questions that day how dangerous is the situation between the United States and iran and how did we get here lets get to the bottom line. Its hard to believe today but less than 4 years ago there was hope that major conflict with iran was off the table the major world powers had signed a deal constraining Irans Nuclear program and a new chapter in u. S. Iranian relations was being written or so that was the thinking well think again after a radical change of administrations in the United States the tearing up of the nuclear deal with iran and the assassination of one of irans top generals are all bets off and does anyone know where were heading fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have all the answers to these questions valley nasser is professor of middle east studies at Johns Hopkins university and author of the shia revival which foresaw much of the tension in iraq that were witnessing today Michele Dunne is director of the middle east