Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

As war expands from Iran to Lebanon to Saudi Arabia, I asked former senior U.S. military commander David Petraeus what he sees as the most likely outcome.

Then Israel sees a historic opportunity to end the Iranian regime, but will

Trump stay the course? Defense analyst Amos Haro joins from Israel. And how war in the Middle

East impacts the war in Ukraine. Walter Isaacson speaks to Krisha Freeland, advisor to President

Volodymyr Zelensky.

Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Biona Goldriga, New York, sitting in for Christian Amunpur. Today, another strike at the heart of the Iranian regime. Israel bombed the assembly

of experts compound in the holy city of Pome, meaning the strike to hit while its members were voting to elect the country's

next supreme leader. But Iran says the building had been evacuated prior. And the war continues to

expand across the Middle East. In Beirut, the Israeli Air Force is striking Hezbollah targets as

their forces seize ground in southern Lebanon. In Saudi Arabia,

the U.S. warns there is a threat of imminent attacks after its embassy was struck by suspected

Iranian drones. The U.S. State Department ordered the departure of government personnel from

Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE due to security concerns.

And inside Iran, more than 700 people have been killed since the war began,

according to the U.S.-based human rights activist news agency.

Speaking in the Oval Office alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz,

President Trump was asked about his worst-case

scenario for Iran. Here's his response.

I guess the worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who's as bad as

the previous person, right? That could happen. We don't want that to happen. It would probably

be the worst you go through this. And then in five years you realize you put somebody in who was no better.

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