Idrees Ali

Help is on its way.

That help never came or hasn't come so far.

But the buildup continues, and now it seems to be some version of limiting Iran's nuclear sort of ambitions and potentially its ballistic missile program.

The U.S.

in June carried out a large sort of attack on three Iranian nuclear facilities.

And at the time, Trump said, mission accomplished.

Iran's nuclear ambitions have been essentially decimated.

And so it's really unclear what the aims are.

It's unclear how you can achieve them through an aerial bombing campaign.

The Iranian government, the leadership, has never been...

in a weaker position.

They have been hit in many key areas by U.S.

and Israeli strikes in June, so less than a year ago.

And the political and economic situation has only deteriorated.

And so if you're looking from the outside, you could see sort of the thinking process of why now might be a time to take out a regime, a government that for decades you have seen it as an adversary.