Last week, at the onset of the strikes, the Israeli military said that Israel’s objective was to take out Iran’s nuclear capabilities. However, since then, the Israeli military seems to have widened its targets, striking Iran’s oil and gas refineries and killing many of the leadership and intelligence officers inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

President Donald Trump had cast himself as a man of “peace” and a “dealmaker” intent on stabilizing a febrile region and ending conflicts. But he now appears poised to join one.