The military campaign in Iran could last weeks, according to US and Israeli officials.
“This is an extensive, coordinated, probably multiweek campaign,” Jeremy Bash, the former chief of staff for the CIA and the Department of Defense during the Obama administration, told NBC News Saturday.
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Bash compared Operation Epic Fury to other campaigns in recent years, including the January capture of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro, saying “those were largely ‘one and done.”
Saturday’s strike “is much larger than we’ve seen before from the Trump administration,” said Bash.
Similarly, Gen. Jack Keane told Fox News it could take several weeks for the US and Israel to take out Iranian leadership and military capabilities.
“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” Trump said in an eight-minute video address on Saturday.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian — both of whom were targeted Saturday — have presumably survived the attack on Tehran.
Their whereabouts and conditions are unknown.
