Rory Stewart

We've already seen

attacks on the intelligence headquarters, National Security Council, the Pasteur compound, where it's thought that both the president and the Supreme Leader Khamenei are thought to live.

We've seen an attack on the place where the former president is believed to live.

And we've also seen the response as well.

Qatar says it's thwarted a number of attacks on the American air base there.

We've got bases in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, all being subject to attack.

So this could go in any sort of really quite dangerous directions.

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Yeah.

Now, Rory, I'm doing this live podcast with you.

If I was doing it with our American counterpart, Mr. Scaramucci, and I were to ask him the question, how much do you think Wag the Dog is being brought into the equation?

What do you think he would say?

Well, Wag the Dog was a film...

starring Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, I think.