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Talking political chess in Middle East politics

Israel says it has struck almost all of Iran's military infrastructure in Syria, in response to an Iranian rocket attack on the occupied Golan Heights, which followed Donald Trump's decision to pull out of a nuclear deal with Iran.

Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn looked at the tensions in the Middle East when she heard from historian and crossbench peer Peter Hennessy, and Jason Pearlman from the Henry Jackson Society think tank, which advocates the robust spreading of liberal democracy.

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