Fareed Zakaria on the Endgame in Iran

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to a special episode of the Pravjipad. We're recording this on Monday, March 2nd, just three days after the United States and Israel launched a large-scale military campaign against Iran following months of escalating tensions. On February 28th, U.S. and Israeli forces struck hundreds of military, missile, and command infrastructure targets across Iran.

In an operation, the two governments they killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini and scores of Iranian senior leaders. President Trump has said the campaign could continue for four or five weeks, and the Pentagon has confirmed U.S. military casualties, with American troops killed in action and more expected. In response, Iran has launched ballistic missiles and drones at Israeli cities and U.S. bases across the Middle East, including in Gulf states.

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