US-Iran crisis: Is expecting Iran to de-escalate realistic?

Name: US-Iran crisis: Is expecting Iran to de-escalate realistic?
Uploaded: 2020-01-07T23:06:18.000Z
Duration: 1 min 33 s
Description: Iran has a number of possible retaliation options following the US killing of an Iranian commander.

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Two Middle East experts Robin Wright, New Yorker staff writer, and Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, talk to the BBC about Iran and de-escalation.

Speaking to Beyond 100 Days on BBC World News, Wright said: "It'd be hard for the Iranians not to do something right now."

US & Canada

7 January 2020