Iran’s Long Shadow

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said that the U.S. could maintain a blockade of Iran “indefinitely.” On Washington Week With The Atlantic , panelists joined to discuss the political consequences of the continued conflict, and more.

The president has made “a total miscalculation” with Iran, Elisabeth Bumiller, a writer at large at The New York Times , argued last night.

What has unfolded since the conflict began reflects “the reason that previous presidents did not do what Donald Trump did, because of the inevitable consequences” of “igniting a regional war in the Middle East and closing the Strait of Hormuz.” Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic , Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Bumiller; Adam Harris, the host of Radio Atlantic ; Dan Lamothe, a national-security reporter at The Washington Post ; Liz Landers, a White House correspondent at PBS News Hour .

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