Good evening. I'm John Yang. The second week of the Israel-Iran War began with a fresh round of Israeli air strikes on missile sites and a nuclear facility in Iran, and Iranian counterstrikes, sending missiles and drones into residential areas of Israel. As B-2 bombers are reportedly being repositioned, there's a new warning to the United States.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they would attack U.S. vessels in the Red Sea if President Trump joins Israel's military campaign. And after his talks with European officials

were inconclusive, Iran's foreign minister said there would be no negotiations with the United

States as long as Israeli

attacks continue.

We have come, unfortunately, to the conclusion that the United States has been in this

aggression from the beginning.

No, they deny, they keep saying that they are not involving, but we have many indications that they have been involved

from day one. As Israel broadens its targets in Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

says regime change is not an explicit goal, but could be a result. Nargis Bajoli is an associate

professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Nargis, Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be saying that the Israeli attacks have given an opportunity for Iranians who oppose the regime to rise up.

How likely is that?

That, at least at the moment, seems to be quite unlikely, mostly because, first of all,

this is a foreign invasion that was an unprovoked attack in a time when Iran was in the midst

of negotiations with the United States.

So from the citizenry, even those who are angry at the Islamic Republic, of which there

are many, but to respond by an uprising from a foreign

invasion where bombs are landing in residential areas all across Tehran and other cities,

that seems to be a tall order to want in this moment, and it's not taking place as far as we can

tell. Instead, what's happening is a rallying around the flag effect. You had a recent essay in Time magazine and on the, you wrote that the Iranian state is structured

for survival. Explain that.

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