U.S. carried out strikes targeting elite Iranian forces and pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria.
The strikes were in retaliation for a drone attack in Jordan that killed three American soldiers last Sunday. Joe Biden did not order direct strikes on Iran, as some Republican opponents demanded. Many experts in Washington believe that Iran will not take the risk of a direct conflict with the world's leading power, but that the country has strengthened itself since the war in Gaza. The risk of regional conflagration is not decreasing.