Former CFR president Richard Haass predicts that the Iran-Israel war could "stay messy for a long time," Monday morning on MSNBC. He said Israel launched the war without clearly stating its goals and without the ability to completely take down the Iranian nuclear program without U.

IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Effie Defrin elaborated that the military's goal in Operation Rising Lion is not to achieve regime change in Iran, but rather to remove Iran's capabilities to annihilate Israel, according to a Sunday afternoon statement.