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Editorial: It’s complicated

One month in, much has been asked, and been said, about the conflict in Iran, its root causes, and its goals. We need answers. Did the U.S. get involved to: Bring about regime change? Support Israel? Eradicate suspected nuclear weapons? Prevent imminent attack? Get revenge for 47 years of “Death to America” chants? Help the people of Iran? Control the oil? All of the above? We know and we all have read these concerns. We have incomplete information. Congress has incomplete information. U.S. ground forces are headed to the Middle East. Americans deserve to know exactly why our troops are fighting there. And dying. In all the clamor, one other source has been rather silent: the voice of Iranians. On Tuesday, March 24, NPR’s Morning Edition reporters interviewed refugees heading across the border into Turkey. Three out of four whose responses were reported were in favor of the offensive. “We needed a foreign military intervention to save us. The U.S. and Israel already killed the former S...

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