Daniel Estrin

He said Iran's oil economy will be needed when Iran's regime collapses.

Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Hi, Steve.

Well, just as we're speaking here, you might hear the alarms.

We are getting advance notice on our phones that an Iranian missile is on its way to Israel.

So we have a few minutes now to speak before the air raid sirens will go off.

But I'll tell you that Israel is expecting that it needs about three weeks.

to achieve its goals in Iran.

That's what a senior Israeli defense official told me this weekend.

This person is in the military's operations directorate.

He spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Israel's military plans, but he says the goal is to decimate Iran's army, navy, military industries.

And Israel also realizes that President Trump could just end the war at any point.

So the U.S.

is not giving a timeline on how it sees the war and how long it would take.

But we do know that the U.S.

has not been happy with Israel's targeting of the Iranian oil depots this weekend.

Yeah, well, Israel said that Iran was using that oil to fuel Iranian missiles launched at Israel.

But this is also civilian infrastructure we're talking about.

U.S.

officials have been displeased with the extent of the damage that Israel caused, you know, those skies that were blackened and the oily raindrops that dropped onto Tehran.