Israeli and Arab officials are expressing significant doubt over whether limited U.S. military action can achieve the Trump administration’s reported goal of toppling the Iranian regime. A senior Israeli official, speaking to Reuters on Thursday, warned that air power alone is insufficient for such a monumental shift. "If the goal is to topple the regime, you have to put boots on the ground," the official stated, emphasizing that surgical strikes, while damaging, historically fail to collapse established ideological governments. The official further noted that even the decapitation of the leadership would not guarantee success. Encouraging the Street: Using precision strikes to give Iranian demonstrators the "confidence" that they can overrun government buildings.