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Let's end this special edition of the Global News Podcast with the thoughts of our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette, who's recently returned from Iran.

This is a confrontation which is very different from what happened last year, where, at least when it came to the region, Iran carefully telegraphed its attacks, took care to minimise the risk of causing American casualties.

Iran had warned that this time it would not hold back and that all of US military bases across the region, including US military personnel, there's more than 40,000 across the region, would be at risk.

And President Trump himself acknowledged in his eight-minute video that there would possibly be the loss of American lives.

But he made it clear that America, as he saw it, was under threat

And he was ordering this war to commence.

A war, a military operation that the Pentagon has codenamed Epic Fury.

Lise, in his long announcement, President Trump said that regime change was very much on the table.

What does that look like in your view?

You were just in Iran in the past few weeks.

Is your sense that this is going to target the Ayatollah, the supreme leader, the IRGC?

How far do you think this could go?

Yes, President Trump and U.S.

Commander-in-Chief, we've often reported on BBC that he has sent conflicting messages about whether this was about Iran's nuclear program, that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, or that it was about broader regime change.

all of these reasons this morning in that first post.

History tells us that there has been, there's been no example of an order, a government, an order being brought down by airstrikes alone.

But President Trump has repeatedly said that he wants to keep his

troops out of forever wars.