on c-span,■a■b unfiltered, unbi, word for word.m the nation's capital to wherever you are, because the opinion that matters the most is your own.this is what democracys like. c-span, powered by cable. host: welcome back to washington journal. joined n blark, from the center of defense networks and technology from the hudson institute. good to see you. guest: good to see you. host: i want to start with iran. earlier they launched strikes against syria, iraq, and pakistan. what is going on? what is their end game and what are they trying to achieve? guest: iran is trying to establish in the middle east wh is something they're doing the past couple decades and they've been working through proxies with the houthi in yemen and hezbollah and hamas and some of the sympathizers in iraq. ■group. so force their neighbors to establish itself as a country with freedom of action to drive competition in the region. i ran head pakistan and they and iran says people have been killed. where does this go? guest: it's another region where a dispute b