President Trump and Israel launched attacks on Iran with the ambitious aim of bringing down the regime in Tehran, a goal that promises heavy use of force and which will rattle Gulf allies concerned about a wider regional war and instability on their doorsteps.
Trump’s military planners and advisers gave him several options as the U.S. built up a powerful force off Iran’s shores, including everything from a limited symbolic strike to a wide-ranging attack on the government’s power centers.
The president pushed early on for decisive options and appears to have chosen one. U.S. and Israeli forces went hard at Iran beginning early Saturday, attacking Iran’s leaders and symbols of the regime in addition to military assets that Iran would need to fight a war, people familiar with the matter said.
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