The regime must go
In the end, it will be up to the people, who have in recent months taken to the streets to protest their oppressors and been slaughtered by them in the tens of thousands, to seize control in Tehran. Neither the United States nor Israel seeks to occupy or impose a government on it. It is hoped that some regime elements will conclude that must change and work with protesters to end the long Islamist reign of terror there.
But both nations are entirely in the right in acting to strip this murderous regime of its military hardware and facilities that would fulfill its ambitions for weapons of mass destruction, as well as to take out its criminal leaders.
