A couple of the headline stories at The Times of Israel, March 23:
Israeli, US officials continue to tout possibility of regime change; Iran fires 10 missile salvos on Sunday, 1 projectile lands in Lebanon; Arrow 3 downs missile outside atmosphere
The United States is reportedly planning a weeks-long operation to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, an Israeli report claimed Sunday, as Israeli and American officials continued to tout the potential fall of the Islamic Republic’s regime as a result of the escalating attacks.
Israel’s ambassador in the US, Yechiel Leiter, told CNN Sunday that the war must continue until the Islamic Republic’s regime is degraded to the extent that it has “no power” and the Iranian people can rise up and topple it.
“What we have to focus on now is degrading to the point where they have no power left in this regime. Hopefully, that will trigger this combustion point where the people are able to take charge of their own lives. Our focus has to be on degrading this regime to the point where they no longer pose a threat to us, to the region, to the world,” Leiter said.
The campaign would end, he contended, when “there is not an entity in Tehran that’s going to threaten the region.”
He said that such an outcome could come about by “this regime having a change of heart,” though he said that was “hard to imagine” and a popular uprising was more likely: “Probably, it’s going to take place because the Iranian people have had enough.”....
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Related: "Netanyahu said frustrated that Mossad promises of Iran uprising have fallen short"
And from Reuters via the ToI liveblog, March 23:
Iran threatens to hit power plants in Israel, Gulf if its electricity sector is targeted
Iran will retaliate to an attack on its electricity sector by targeting Israel’s power plants as well as power plants supplying US bases with electricity in regional countries, a statement by the Revolutionary Guards says.
The statement seemingly retracts earlier threats to desalination plants in the region, which are crucial for providing drinking water in Gulf countries.
“The lying … US President has claimed that the Revolutionary Guards intends to attack the water desalination plants and cause hardship to the people of the countries in the region,” the statement shared on state media says....
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