No Regime Change, No Exit: The Iran War’s Reckoning Begins – OpEd

By Osama Al-Sharif

Almost two weeks after the US and Israel launched what they described as a preemptive strike against Iran — with the stated objective of regime change — the odds that this goal will be achieved anytime soon appear as remote as they did on Day 1. Yet as both sides dig in, trading blows in an increasingly senseless war of attrition, there are signs that President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are quietly backing away from that stated objective.

On Monday...