00:00Israel and Iran are in a serious fight.
00:02It's not secret anymore.
00:04Israel attacked first, saying it wants to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb.
00:08But how does this all end?
00:11And what does everyone actually want?
00:12I'm Manish Adhikari. Welcome to First Things Fast.
00:25Let's keep it simple.
00:26Israel says it wants to stop Iran's bomb plans.
00:29But it also sounds like Israel wants the Iranian government to change completely.
00:34That's called regime change.
00:35It means they don't just want Iran to stop making bombs.
00:38They want different people to run the country.
00:41Now, can that happen just by dropping bombs from planes?
00:44Not really.
00:45In most wars, when people are bombed, they don't get angry at their own leaders.
00:49They get angry at the country doing the bombing.
00:51And even though many people in Iran are unhappy with their leaders,
00:54there's no big group right now ready to replace the government.
00:58So, hoping people inside Iran will rise up?
01:01That's unlikely.
01:02What's more likely is this, according to some experts.
01:05The world will pressure Iran to make a deal.
01:07A deal where Iran agrees to stop trying to build nuclear weapons.
01:11But here's the tricky part.
01:12Iran says, okay, we'll stop short of making bombs.
01:15But we still want to make nuclear fuel.
01:17Israel says, no way, not even that.
01:20Trump says kind of the same thing.
01:22No fuel, no bombs, nothing.
01:24And where's the US in all this?
01:26Trump has made loud threats.
01:28He even said, we control the skies over Iran and told Iran to surrender.
01:33But he hasn't sent in the army.
01:34He seems to want to scare Iran into making a deal without starting another war.
01:40Now, Iran hasn't used its full power yet.
01:42Its missile attacks did not do much because Israel stopped them in the sky.
01:46But Iran could still cause trouble in other ways.
01:49They could hack into computers, shut down systems,
01:52or even block the sea route where oil ships pass.
01:55That would hurt the world's economy and force the US to step in.
01:58So, what's the end game?
02:00Israel wants Iran to be too weak to ever build a bomb.
02:04Trump wants to make a big deal that proves he was tough and smart.
02:08Iran wants to protect itself, but not give up everything.
02:11And the rest of the world?
02:12The rest of us are just hoping things calm down
02:15before it gets out of hand.
02:16Because wars like this, they don't end with heroes and happy endings.
02:20They end with tired people, broken cities, and a long road back to peace.
02:26I'm Manish Adhikari.
02:28First things fast.
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