War continues to escalate in West Asia

President Donald Trump, in his address on Thursday, said that the US forces will keep hitting Iran ‘very hard’ in the next two or three weeks.
Late on Thursday, he took to Truth Social to announce that Iran’s biggest bridge has been hit by the US forces, sending this as a reminder to Islamic Republic of consequences if they did not say yes to his peace deal.
AP has reported the Navy’s 6th Fleet announcing that the largest American aircraft carrier in service sailed out of Split, in Croatia and ‘remains poised for full mission tasking in support of national objectives in any area of operation.”
Iran’s has increased the intensity of attacks on Gulf region energy infrastructure and its tight grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas transits in peacetime, has sent oil prices skyrocketing.
Former CIA director Bill Burns has described the US-Israeli war launched against Iran as ‘a war of choice’ that may have only further empowered the most hard-line elements within its theocracy.
Burns, a former State Department diplomat, made the observation in a podcast by Foreign Affairs magazine.
“This is a regime that is inept at many things like managing its economy, but it is designed to preserve itself and designed to repress its own people and designed to withstand even the decapitation of its senior leadership,” said Burns, who secretly negotiated with the Iranians ahead of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers during the Obama administration.