The Middle East is dominating this week's headlines.

On Consider This, we dive into what's at stake in a war between Israel and Iran.

Plus, we take a look back at the Iraq War and Lessons from 2003.

Listen now to Consider This Podcast on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

President Trump and the Pentagon are calling the U.S. strike on three Iranian nuclear facilities a major success.

But as NPR's Greg Myrie reports, the exact extent of the damage is still being assessed. The U.S. used B-2 stealth bombers to drop 30,000 pound bunker-busting bombs

on two Iranian nuclear sites, Fordo and Natanz. A submarine fired Tomahawk missiles at a third nuclear site in Isfahan.

The U.S. planes flew round-trip from an airbase near Kansas City.

President Trump said the attacks totally obliterated the Iranian nuclear sites.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kaneain, offered a slightly different take, saying the

strikes caused severe damage and destruction. But he said it was too soon to know whether Iran

had lost all of its nuclear capability. Iran has fired additional missiles at Israel, but has not

acted against any U.S. targets. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Washington. The State Department says it's

organized two evacuation flights out of Israel carrying 70 Americans and green card holders. There are

hundreds of thousands of Americans living in Israel, and many are now asking about their

options to leave, as NPR's Michelle Kellman reports.

On the same day that the U.S. dropped massive bombs on Iranian nuclear sites joining Israel's war there,

the U.S. ambassador to Israel took to social media to encourage American citizens to sign up for information about evacuation flights.

Ambassador Mike Huckabee wrote that his team

is working around the clock to assist American citizens. He encouraged them to fill out a form

on travel.state.gov. The State Department says so far it has provided information to 27,000

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