Beyond Iran, an arc of instability looms in West Asia

The Western Asian states of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq have been a global migraine for decades.

If history is a guide, the mob attacks on March 1 on US diplomatic facilities in Baghdad and Karachi, as well as the

street protests in India’s Srinagar

, all indicate that matters in this arc of instability are poised to worsen after the US-Israeli strike on Iran.