The US is threatening to close its embassy in Baghdad in response to attacks by Iran-supported Shia militias in Iraq on US military and diplomatic targets. Host Marco Werman speaks to Ambassador Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi, the former ambassador of Iraq to the United Nations and the founding director of the Indiana University Center for the Study of the Middle East.
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