Farnaz Fassihi

Their security apparatus are all over the capital.

They've set up checkpoints and stopping cars and doing surveillance.

Interesting.

They also seem to have maintained their military ability to retaliate and strike, still launching a barrage of ballistic missiles at U.S.

military targets.

They are attacking Israel and they are firing off missiles and drones to Arab countries in the Persian Gulf.

They wanted to make sure that there's no power vacuum.

And at the moment, we're not seeing any evidence of a power vacuum.

Well, the majority of Iranian people have said that they want this regime toppled, that they want a new Iran.

But right now, I think the priority for many Iranians is to find safety under bombs and to...

make sure that their families are safe and they survive, and they're scrambling to find food and gasoline and shelter.

We haven't really seen yet a massive domestic uprising, but it's only day two, and we don't know what's possible.

Yeah, they took out Mr. Khamenei on day one, and they're still continuing to strike.

I think it's going to take some time to figure out what's going to happen in Iran and whether or not this regime will survive.

For the Iranian people inside Iran to be able to mobilize in a way that they would lay a central role in toppling the regime, there has to be strategy and planning and some sort of unity from opposition leaders inside the country and outside the country, and also a sense that the regime and its oppressive tools

and its means of crackdown and killing have been significantly weakened or disassembled.

Otherwise, if people just come to the streets again, as they did in January, and they're unarmed, they risk lethal crackdowns and deaths and killings again.

We do.

I think the difference in this current war in comparison with the June war with Israel is that the targets have expanded to not just military missiles and nuclear sites, to structures and buildings and institutions that the government used to oppress and repress.

Like what?