The U.S. retaliates against Iranian assets after three American soldiers are killed in Jordan.

Will Iran and its militias back down?

Or is this the beginning of a new phase in the decades-old between the US and the Islamic Republic.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

U.S. forces are in their midst of a multi-pronged attack

against Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq.

This attack among the most telegraphed in recent memory comes days

after three soldiers, Sergeant Kennedy Sanders, William Rivers, and Brianna Moffitt,

were killed in a drone attack at a border post in Jordan.

The Middle East was already boiling and President Biden seems loath to escalate, but he also felt that he had no choice.

Well his attacks successfully dissuade Iran

and its malicious from targeting US forces.

Joining me to discuss this tonight,

Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent

for the New York Times.

Susan Glasser is a staff writer for the New Yorker.

Laura Seligman is a defense reporter for Politico.

And Nancy Yussif is the National Security correspondent

for the Wall Street Journal.

And I should note at the outset that Peter and Susan are married, which all of you at home know,

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