From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, March 9th.

A seventh American has now been confirmed dead in the war against Iran, and President Trump keeps moving the goalposts

for when he will declare mission accomplished. The Iranian leadership, as you may have heard,

has now named Ayatollah Khomey's son as the new supreme leader, which means a new person

but not regime change, right? No more democracy,

just as much theocracy. And Trump, who has gone back and forth on whether regime change

is a goal or just weakening Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons and wage regional wars,

is now saying any new leader, quote, is not going to last long, unquote, without his

approval, according to ABC News, who Trump said that to. Here's Trump's UN ambassador, Mike

Walts, kind of backing that up, but maybe also fogging it up again on ABC this week yesterday.

He wants to see leadership in Iran that no longer threatens the United States or allies in the

region that isn't attacking civilian airports, ports, shipping terminals, hotels, and,

you know, and lashing out in the way that it is, that can't hold energy supplies hostage

in terms of the rest of the world, and certainly isn't going to continue to do everything

that they can to build a nuclear weapon. So it has to be someone that we can deal with.

It has to be someone that doesn't threaten Americans, attack Americans, and try to attack us

and our allies at any given chance.

So that's UN Ambassador Mike Walts on ABC yesterday, but is that digging in on regime change,

or just saying the U.S. will destroy their capabilities enough that no new leader can threaten

in the ways Homanet did? In our Brian Lairn Show newsletter this week, we invited you as readers

to say why you think the U.S. really went to war against Iran,

and if you support the war, we asked, of course, because President Trump and his cabinet

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