Displays of defiance.

The U.S. and Israel target Iran's regime with no end in sight, eliminating powerful leaders.

But Iran vows to keep up the fight.

And President Trump confronts domestic pushback after a top, albeit controversial, counterterrorism official resigns in protest,

and international resistance of his demands to help reopen the strait of our moves.

Tonight, where does the war go from here? Coming up on Compass Points.

Hello and welcome to Compass Points. The day after the U.S. and Israel began the war with Iran, President Trump said the strikes

would last four to five weeks. Now, as the war begins, its fourth week, the Iran's regime

is severely weakened but is still retaliating against Israel and its Gulf

neighbors. The Strait of Hormuz is largely closed, and oil prices are spiking.

And President Trump's top counterterrorism official resigned in protest to the war, contradicting

the president's claim that Iran posed an imminent threat. Across the region, it appears there

is no end in sight. To talk about where we are,

I'm joined tonight by Michael Duran. He served on President George W. Bush's National Security Council

staff and is now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Miod Maliki is a former Treasury official

in the first Trump administration and is now a senior advisor at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

Valli Nasser is a former State Department official in the Obama administration and is now a professor

at Johns Hopkins University Sice and a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International

Studies. And Dana Stroll was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East and the

Biden administration and is now the director of Defense for the Middle East and the Biden administration,

and is now the Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Thank you, all of you. Welcome. Really appreciate it. Let me begin with what are the stated goals of the ongoing military campaign.

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