It’s being reported by the New York Post that they are being told the war against Iran could last multiple weeks, with this being the largest buildup ever seen by the Trump administration.
Here’s what they write:
The military campaign in Iran could last weeks, according to US and Israeli officials.
“This is an extensive, coordinated, probably multiweek campaign,” Jeremy Bash, the former chief of staff for the CIA and the Department of Defense during the Obama administration, told NBC News Saturday.
Bash compared Operation Epic Fury to other campaigns in recent years, including the January capture of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro, saying “those were largely ‘one and done.”
Saturday’s strike “is much larger than we’ve seen before from the Trump administration,” said Bash.
Similarly, Gen. Jack Keane told Fox News it could take several weeks for the US and Israel to take out Iranian leadership and military capabilities.
“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” Trump said in an eight-minute video address on Saturday.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian — both of whom were targeted Saturday — have presumably survived the attack on Tehran.
Their whereabouts and conditions are unknown.
It had been rumored this morning that Khamenei might have been eliminated, however that appears to be nothing more than rumor at this point. In fact, it’s being reported that Khamenei is supposed to give a speech or something:
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is scheduled to deliver a speech shortly after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, Al‑Alam TV reports. pic.twitter.com/Ln2YWAezZ0
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 28, 2026
If he never gives the speech, that will be telling.