Army veteran Paul Rieckhoff joined WBUR’s Here & Now with host Indira Lakshmanan to unpack new polling showing the war in Iran has become more unpopular than the Iraq War — rivaling Afghanistan and Vietnam — as the nation marked the dignified transfer of U.S. service members killed in the conflict at Dover Air Force Base.
WBUR Here & Now: U.S. military losses deepen disapproval of war in Iran
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