With few good strategic options, Iran’s best prospect may be to retaliate while it can

Regime could try to retain control of streets as US and Israel have expressed no intention of mounting ground invasion

Venezula's Nicholas Maduro was captured. But Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have chosen a different strategy for Iran: to target and aim to kill the country's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and as many other senior regime figures as possible.

Though Iranian military sites and its air defence systems were also targeted by coordinated US and Israeli bombing, beginning in the morning, the most significant attack was on Khamenei's compound in Tehran.