The U.S. and Israel conducted major airstrikes on multiple cities in Iran on Saturday, following a major buildup of U.S. forces in the region and an apparent breakdown in negotiations with Iran’s regime over its nuclear program. President Donald Trump said in a recorded video that Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S. and that he had ordered a “massive and ongoing” combat operation in the country to destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear programs, that the U.S. was seeking regime change, and he called on the Iranian people to rise up and “take over your government.” Here’s the latest.

This is not like the strikes last year

During last year’s 12-Day War between Israel and Iran, long-range U.S. bombers conducted a single series of strikes against Iranian nuclear targets and that was it. This time, the U.S. and Israel are apparently conducting a widespread campaign targeting numerous cities — and it’s not clear when it will end.

In his recorded statement, Trump said that:

Our objective is to the defend the American........

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