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I mean, another question is what we are learning from those targets that were chosen and now hit.
And I'm going to put this one to you, Greg, but Daniel, jump in any time you want to add something to this.
I mean, the...
Attacks targeting Khamenei, the supreme leader, and Pozeshkin, the president of Iran.
That speaks to regime change, right?
I mean, we were wondering for weeks now, is regime change the goal?
We seem to have an answer.
Wow, that would really be something.
Greg?
And for ordinary Iranians, that means they were up and about and trying to get to and from school and work and going about their day, going about their life.
One other thing before we move on from what we are starting to understand about the goals of these strikes.
President Trump made clear in his remarks from Mar-a-Lago earlier today that stopping Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
is a goal.
He has said that repeatedly.
That's been a consistent position of American presidents across both parties across many years now.
I just want to note, Daniel, Iran says it is not trying to develop a nuclear weapon.
President Trump had told us that the nuclear program was obliterated last summer.
We haven't seen evidence yet, have we?
They have not presented evidence that Iran was, in fact, successfully rebuilding a program.
And which we saw on full display today in terms of Iran's response.