Israeli military alerts of incoming Iranian missile salvo

Veteran Iran watchers in the United States were quoted by public broadcaster NPR as saying that while the US attacks could have delayed Iran's nuclear program, bombing can achieve only so much.

"The program has been seriously set back, but there's a lot of odds and ends," David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, told NPR.

Professor Jeffrey Lewis at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies said air attacks were not a cure-all.

"Even the most brilliant bombing campaign, probably is not going to get us where we want to be," Lewis said.

United Nations envoys from Russia and China on Sunday expressed strong objections to the US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, deepening the superpowers' rift with Washington as their mutual friend Iran is bombed.

"Again we're being asked to believe the US's fairy tales, to once again inflict suffering on millions of people living in the Middle East," Russia's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said.

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US President Donald Trump appeared to welcome the idea of Iran regime change and signaled he would accept little opposition as he tore into a lawmaker critic from his own Republican party on social media.

Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie called out Trump on the President's sharp post welcoming Iran regime change if Tehran doesn't "Make Iran Great Again".

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