The knowns and unknowns of war in Iran.

The war has spiked oil prices, triggered Iranian retaliatory strikes against its Gulf neighbors,

and elevated a younger, even harder-line, supreme leader.

But will the regime survive?

How will the war end?

And were apparent military mistakes the result of a rush to launch the first strike.

As tonight on Compass Points.

Hello and welcome to Compass Points. The war with Iran is being waged across more than a dozen countries.

We don't know where it's going, but the impact has already been profound. In Iran, an unprecedented

degradation of the military, thousands dead. Across the region, countries that have not faced

Iranian drones and missiles before, now struggling to shoot them down. And the region, countries that have not faced Iranian drones and missiles before,

now struggling to shoot them down. And the largest disruption to energy in world history.

To discuss what we know about the war and the war's many unknowns, I'm joined tonight by

Suzanne Maloney, the vice president and director of foreign policy at Brookings.

Ruel Mark Gurek, former CIA officer focused on Iran

and a resident scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Ray Take is a senior fellow for Middle East Studies

at the Council on Foreign Relations,

and Alex Vitanka is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute.

Thank you all so much. Thanks for being here.

Really appreciate it. As I said, let's begin a little bit with what we know.

And that is that this war began with the largest ever American and Israeli air campaign in each of their histories.

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