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The FRONTLINE Interview: Mohammad Javad Zarif
"Despite the fact that the United States and almost every other powerful nation supports Saudi Arabia actively and tries to undermine us actively, we are still the most influential power in the Middle East," says Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in an interview for the FRONTLINE documentary "Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia."
February 20, 2018
The FRONTLINE Interview: Ryan Crocker
Whether it's Yemen, Iraq or Syria, today's conflicts in the Middle East can't be explained by sectarianism alone, says longtime U.S. diplomat Ryan Crocker in this interview for the FRONTLINE documentary "Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia." Says Crocker, "There are deeper issues in play. It's power. It's who was going to have influence where?"
February 20, 2018
The FRONTLINE Interview: Randa Slim
The rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia "is primarily a competition about the direction of politics in the Mideast, and Iran wants to have a say in it," says Randa Slim of the Middle East Institute in Washington.
February 20, 2018
The FRONTLINE Interview: Vali Nasr
In this interview for the FRONTLINE documentary "Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia," Middle East scholar Vali Nasr talks about the history driving today's wars in the Middle East, whether these conflicts can be solved, and the parallels between ISIS and the nightwalkers from "Game of Thrones."
February 20, 2018
2h 51m
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
FRONTLINE investigates how a dangerous rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has plunged the Middle East into sectarian war.
February 20, 2018
Saudi Official Makes Rare Reflection on Kingdom's Role in Rise of Extremism
Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir makes a rare, on-camera reflection in the FRONTLINE series "Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia."
February 20, 2018
1h 54m
Exodus: The Journey Continues
The intimate stories of refugees and migrants, caught in Europe's tightened borders.
January 23, 2018
How Yemen's Cholera Outbreak Became the Fastest Growing in Modern History
The cholera epidemic in Yemen is now the largest and fastest growing outbreak of the disease in modern history — the result of a crippling war that has devastated the country, long the poorest in the Arab world, and unleashed a major humanitarian crisis.
October 18, 2017
15m
Inside Yemen
An up-close look at how Yemen’s humanitarian crisis was worsened by a brutal war.
October 18, 2017
U.N. Says It Will Investigate Alleged War Crimes In Yemen
The United Nations will soon dispatch a team of experts to Yemen, where two-and-a-half years of war has left more than 10,000 dead and fueled an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis.
September 29, 2017
In ISIS-held Raqqa, No Escape for Thousands of Civilians, Amnesty Warns
Thousands of civilians in Raqqa are trapped, caught between ISIS's mines, snipers and booby traps on the ground and air and artillery strikes from a coalition fighting to liberate the Syrian city from ISIS control.
August 25, 2017
Inside Yemen
Watch a rare, on-the-ground report from inside Yemen -- the country that’s home to what the United Nations recently called the “largest humanitarian crisis” in the world.
July 19, 2017