Today, the United States and Israel launched joint military strikes against Iran, marking a significant escalation in longstanding tensions. The attacks have targeted key Iranian military assets, nuclear facilities, missile sites, naval capabilities, and leadership compounds, including those associated with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The attacks followed weeks of failed diplomatic negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, with a final round collapsing just two days ago without agreement.
Why US and Israel attacking Iran? Trump calls for regime change. Is it really for regime change? Or is it because Iran is building nuclear weapons? And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is saying the strikes as necessary to "remove the existential threat posed by the regime in Iran.
Iran is saying it has every right to defend itself against this act of aggression. The government has criticized the US for striking during ongoing nuclear negotiations, noting recent a good meeting in Geneva and calling this war of choice by the United States. Iran is saying the US will have to pay for that and Iran's retaliatory attack is just targeting military installations in self-defense. Iran is saying on Trump's regime change, "mission impossible."
The motivations appear multifaceted, with nuclear prevention as the core stated rationale, but regime change is openly integrated into the strategy. The strikes seem rather than diplomatic coercion use decisive resolution for the U.S.-Iran conflict. Is Iran weaker now due to 2026 protest and that's why US and Israel are attacking at the Iran's weakest moment? U.S. strikes in June 2025 that targeted Iranian nuclear sites. Does that mean Iran's nuclear capability was not completely demolished on that strike?
Experts are calling the attacks are officially framed as defensive measures against nuclear and military threats, with regime change as an explicit endgame.
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