US officials: Strikes are all U.S. plans, regime change efforts are not planned
Ammon News - Two senior Defense Department officials confirmed to CBS News that the U.S. reached out to Iran diplomatically Saturday to say the strikes are all the U.S. plans and that regime change efforts are not planned.
The officials told CBS News Natanz and Isfahan were struck by tomahawk missiles launched by submarines. It's unclear how many missiles were launched at those two sites.
Earlier this week, multiple U.S. officials told CBS News that Trump opposed an Israeli plan to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader.
Not all U.S. allies in the region who house U.S. troops that are part of U.S. Central Command were informed in advance of the coming U.S. plan to strike in Iran, according to diplomatic sources. Some of the allies were informed as the planes were in the air.
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