Greg Myre

Now the president has to make it a focus of his solution when he was talking about other things like regime change or getting rid of Iran's nuclear program.

All of these may still be among the many things he wants to do, but he has to deal with some of the cards that Iran clearly has to play right now.

We're really not.

He stopped talking about protesters are rising up.

And certainly the analysis from analysts is that's just not likely.

It's just not realistic to be talking about at this point.

The Iranian government and military have shown that they can absorb these heavy blows.

The U.S.

and Israeli bombing campaign, huge damage has been done to be sure.

to their military capabilities.

They had a weak Navy and Air Force to begin with.

That's really been decimated.

Its missile program, its drone program have all been set back very substantially.

But at some level, the government is still functioning, and so is the military.

It's still carrying out attacks.

And we heard Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, testify last week saying, Iran's government is weakened, but it's still intact.

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Dozens of top leaders have been killed, including the previous Supreme Leader, been replaced by a new Supreme Leader.

It's just there's not a clear path to regime change at this point.

Yeah.