Big Picture Interview: Max Blumenthal, Senior Editor-AlterNet’s Grayzone Project/ Author-The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. Iran is blaming Saudi Arabia and by proxy the United States today after ISIS killed 12 people and wounded 42 more in a brazen attack in heart of Tehran. In a statement – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards drew a direct connection between this morning’s slaughter and Donald Trump’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia – and said that “the fact that the Islamic State has claimed responsibility proves that they [the Saudis] were involved in the brutal attack.” So – were they?

	Max Blumenthal – What’s Really Going on In Iran & Qatar?