Is Israel aiming for regime change in Iran?

Israeli operations are designed to weaken Iran’s military capacity and destabilise its leadership, but regime change is not the explicit goal, a US-based Iran analyst told The National. “The aim is to force a choice: Iran can maintain its regime or its nuclear programme, not both,” said Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran. “I don’t think regime change is an explicit goal of this operation.” Still, he noted, “depending on how events play out, it can result in regime collapse that could lead to regime change”.