Jared Malson

They are very far-reaching aims.

He also vowed to raise the Iranian missile program to the ground and strike Iranian nuclear sites.

And he also called on Iranians to rise up and overthrow the regime, which is the end goal that he says he wants.

That's also the aim articulated this morning by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

And it raises a lot of questions now about how the Americans and the Israelis intend to achieve that end state.

They are saying that after this military campaign is over, they're going to call on Iranians to actually accomplish that.

If they do go out and try to overthrow the regime, ordinary Iranians, that is, they'll be putting their lives at risk.

From our reporting, we know that the Americans are striking, along with the Israelis, who have targeted the senior leadership of the regime.

We don't know exactly what the outcome of those strikes were.

And then, of course, we have the list of targets that Trump himself outlined in his video that he released early this morning.

Beyond that, we don't really know.

We can assume that the administration is looking at the Iranian regime, understanding that they are more vulnerable than they've been in years as a result of the war with Israel last year, the economic crisis in Iran, and of course the protests themselves inside Iran.

That said...

There are very few examples in history, really, of any regime falling as a result of an air war.

And so it raises questions about what the endgame of this is.

Well, the Iranians promised a harsh response, and they are delivering to some degree on that response.

So far with missile strikes, they say targeting U.S.

bases across the Persian Gulf region, and of course, also hitting Israel.

You've had strikes on bases in the United Arab Emirates, in Qatar, and in Saudi Arabia.

So across the Gulf region,