Former CFR president Richard Haass predicts that the Iran-Israel war could "stay messy for a long time," Monday morning on MSNBC. He said Israel launched the war without clearly stating its goals and without the ability to completely take down the Iranian nuclear program without U.

Israel's surprise attack on Iran was broadening into a conflict that seems to include regime change in Tehran as a main goal. Iran hit back hard and struck an oil refinery in Haifa.

Israel's control of the airspace over Tehran represents a "change in the entire" military "campaign," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in comments on Monday.

Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the Intel committee, spoke to RCP's Phil Wegmann about what we know about Israel's attack last night on Iran, and Iran's possible retaliation, on Friday's edition of the RealClearPolitics podcast "Well,

New targets appear to indicate an expansion of Israel’s war aims beyond the Iranian nuclear facilities that consumed the first days of the conflict.