The U.S. State Department is scrambling to assist thousands of stranded Americans in the Middle East trying to evacuate the region after the U.S. and Israel jointly launched an operation targeting Iran over the weekend.
Now four days after the war began, the Trump administration is facing fierce criticism for not having a plan in place to evacuate Americans in harms way in advance of the joint operation.
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