If anybody thought President Trump was going to mimic his military operation last June by retargeting Iran’s major nuclear facilities and then declaring victory, they were quickly mistaken.
The ongoing U.S. air campaign against Iran is far bigger and more comprehensive than Trump’s first bite at the apple eight months earlier. Partnering with Israel, a variety of targets have been set in the initial hours: Iran’s military chain-of-command and political leadership; ballistic missile facilities; the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Navy; and Iranian government facilities like the parliament, the president’s office and the feared Ministry of Intelligence. Even Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound wasn’t spared.