Experts react: What's really going on with Pakistan and Iran exchanging attacks?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Furthermore, Tehran's backing of proxy groups like Hamas and non-state actors throughout the Middle East has contributed to a broader sense of insecurity in the region.
58% : While mass demonstrations have subsided, anti-regime dissidents continue to organize and resist.
53% : Iran and Pakistan were apparently targeting hideouts of armed non-state actors -- Jaish al-Adl in Pakistan, and the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Balochistan Liberation Front in Iran -- that each country accuses the other of harboring.
35% : In the end, Tehran will be nervous, as it knows the United States will be watching how Pakistan swiftly responded kinetically on Iranian territory.-- Jason M. Brodsky is the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran and a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute's Iran Program.

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