Jared Malsin

I think, you know,

What a lot of analysts have said is that Iran's government drove itself into a perfect storm of factors that caused this crisis, where you have this underlying banking crisis and a weak financial system, a war with a more powerful neighbor.

And then a lot of Iranians are looking at this situation saying, OK, what was all this money spent on?

Like, what was the point of all this?

Yeah, exactly.

And then, you know, it's just part of how a country like this stays afloat is ordinary people participate in the economy.

You know, like you go to work every day, you go to school, you open your shop.

And if you can't do that anymore, that's when that starts to come apart at the seams.

What comes next is completely uncertain and unpredictable.

There was palpable relief in Lebanon today. People have been waiting for this for a long time.

There was palpable relief in Lebanon today. People have been waiting for this for a long time.

There was palpable relief in Lebanon today. People have been waiting for this for a long time.

So I was out in the southern section of Beirut, which is called Dahia in Arabic, which is where most of the Israeli airstrikes in the city have taken place. And now you have people coming back to a neighborhood that has been shaken by the bombing, fires that were still burning, firefighters trying to put out those blazes.

So I was out in the southern section of Beirut, which is called Dahia in Arabic, which is where most of the Israeli airstrikes in the city have taken place. And now you have people coming back to a neighborhood that has been shaken by the bombing, fires that were still burning, firefighters trying to put out those blazes.

So I was out in the southern section of Beirut, which is called Dahia in Arabic, which is where most of the Israeli airstrikes in the city have taken place. And now you have people coming back to a neighborhood that has been shaken by the bombing, fires that were still burning, firefighters trying to put out those blazes.

You had the supporters of Hezbollah driving through the street on motorcycles and cars waving the yellow Hezbollah flags. People coming back to homes only to find out that they'd been bombed on the very last night of the bombing. So it was a very surreal scene.

You had the supporters of Hezbollah driving through the street on motorcycles and cars waving the yellow Hezbollah flags. People coming back to homes only to find out that they'd been bombed on the very last night of the bombing. So it was a very surreal scene.

You had the supporters of Hezbollah driving through the street on motorcycles and cars waving the yellow Hezbollah flags. People coming back to homes only to find out that they'd been bombed on the very last night of the bombing. So it was a very surreal scene.

It de-escalates one of the fronts in this multipolar conflict that we've seen in the Middle East.

It de-escalates one of the fronts in this multipolar conflict that we've seen in the Middle East.