Middle East/COVID-19

Ellen Laipson, Professor and Director of the Center for Security Policy Studies at George Mason University and Jennifer Cafarella, National Security Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War, hail the successful selection of a new prime minister in Iraq but also tell host Carol Castiel that the coronavirus pandemic complicates an already unstable geo-political, economic and social landscape in Iraq, Iran, and in conflict-ridden Syria and Yemen.