States, Yechiel Leiter, asserts that the war against must continue until the Islamic Republic is weakened to the point of being powerless, allowing the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow it.

The campaign will end, he states in an interview with CNN, when there is no entity in Tehran that will threaten the region.

"I think we need troops on the ground, but they have to be Iranian, and I think they are coming," he adds.

## it was never about nuclear weapons