Rising Tensions Between the U.S. and Iran

This report was published on YouTube on May 12. 

PBS NewsHour: Tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated over the Trump administration’s economic sanctions and Tehran’s threat of stepped-up uranium enrichment. This week, the U.S. sent aircraft carriers to the Persian Gulf. Suzanne Maloney, deputy director of the foreign policy program at Brookings Institute, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the standoff.