Israeli Strikes Escalate With Attacks Reported in Southern, Eastern Lebanon

Iran Strikes Should End In Regime Change, Senate Majority Leader Says, Ahead Of War Powers Vote Senate Majority Leader John Thune has made the maximalist hawkish US case on Iran, saying that any authorized strikes should result in nothing less than regime change in Tehran. "In my view, if you’re going to do something there, you better well make it about getting new leadership and regime change," the leading Republican Senator said Thursday. "If you’re going to take some sort of action, I think you want to achieve a result that actually...

US Explores High-Risk Plan To Seize Iran's Nuclear Stockpile In Potential Gateway To Ground Troops Update(1555ET): The United States and Israel are boasting of having effectively achieved total air superiority over Iran's skies, but this presents yet more questions as to what the end-game will be. The allies have as one key goal securing Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium - most of which may be buried deep under a destroyed nuclear site at Isfahan (taken out during the June war) - but then the conundrum remains... how? Axios reports on one plan which...