Jomana Karadsheh

And it's not just in Jordan.

People are more open about this and they say this more freely here.

But in a lot of countries, right, back to our conversation from earlier, yes, a lot of these young people who are being recruited by the Iranian regime

potentially, and other bad actors out there are not necessarily ideologues, right?

These are young kids who are looking for quick money.

But you are looking at a situation now where you have a generation that is so angry at what has happened over the past few years about watching those images out of Gaza of children killed and everything that has happened there.

The level of anti-Western sentiment

I am seeing in my region is like nothing I'd seen before.

Not even, you know, the lead up to the Iraq war and the Iraq war, where you saw the recruitment of so many young people in this region to fight with Al Qaeda.

We are talking about a level right now of anti-Western sentiment that I had not seen even then.

I mean, it is such a difficult question to answer, right?

I mean, it's something that, you know, I'm sure is keeping Western intelligence agencies very busy right now.

I do think it's going to be very, very challenging.

And it does, you know, as someone from this region, not only as a journalist that covers this region, I do worry about where this is all headed.

I do worry about how polarized our world is right now and how people, you know, I think for a lot of young people in this country and elsewhere in the region, you know, they see, you know,

The U.S., Israel, Western countries, they see this as attacking every one of them.

This is not just about the U.S.

and Israel going after the Iranian regime and its nuclear program.

They see this as, and I hear this a lot, right?

This is about going after another Muslim nation.