If President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are going for a regime change – would they have support inside Iran? Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Karim Sadjadpour joins Katy Tur to explain more on how the Iranian people are feeling amid the escalating conflict.

Sahar Emami lauded as ‘lioness’ and warrior after she kept broadcasting amid Israeli bombing of state broadcaster

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spent almost four decades as Shi'ite Iran's supreme leader building a regional power to rival the Sunni states across the Gulf and implacably hostile to the U.S. and Israel - while crushing repeated unrest at home.

Israel attacked Iranian state television after Iran fired another wave of missiles at Israel on the fourth day of open warfare between the regional foes.

Israeli forces stepped up bombing of Iranian cities, while Iran pierced Israeli air defences with a successful volleys of retaliatory missile strikes.

The pro-Israeli hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow claimed on Tuesday to have hacked and taken down Iran’s Bank Sepah. “We, ‘Gonjeshke Darande,’ conducted cyberattacks which destroyed the data of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ ‘Bank Sepah,’” the group wrote.

Londoners with friends and family in Iran are only able to watch with concern from thousands of kilometres away as conflict continues to escalate between the country and Israel.

Vice President JD Vance tried to calm the anti-war factions of the Republican Party, who are worried that President Trump may get the U.S. involved in the conflict between Iran and Israel, saying that his boss has shown restraint and consistency in opposing Iran developing its nuclear capabilities.