Harlan Ullman, who advises government and business leaders as chairman of the Killowen Group, says the Trump administration doesn’t appear to know what next steps to take in its joint attack with Israel on Iran.
“The [Trump] administration does not have a clear cut strategy for what it is trying to do,” Ullman told Al Jazeera.
“Obviously the impact of the military strikes are to disarm Iran from its weapons systems, its missiles, its ships and its ability to fight. But that is not a strategy, it’s a tactic,” he added.
“The original message of ‘regime change’ seems to be going into the distance because how you effectuate a regime change from the air is uncertain and really never has happened before,” said Ullman.
The Trump administration appears to be taking a break to “come up with a message that it can present to the American public about what it’s doing in Iran and why it’s doing it and then what happens next”.
It will be a challenge for the US to justify the purpose of the war given Iran wasn’t posing an immediate threat to the country, said Ullman.