Now that Iran has declared that its supreme leader is dead, it is unclear which of his possible successors might rise.
Questions remain about how much effort the Trump administration will put into changing the Iranian government.
Among those killed in strikes, according to the U.S. and Israel, were Iran’s supreme leader and three of his top military commanders.
Here are images from Iran, Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East.
At least one gathering of senior officials and military leaders was hit, but it was not immediately clear whether the effort to kill them had succeeded.
Maps show where U.S. and Israel have struck Iran, and where Iran has retaliated.
The United States and Israel have declared their war aim as paving the way for a popular uprising against the government in Tehran.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the major assault launched by the United States and Israel.
President Trump has kept up a steady drumbeat of threats and built up U.S. troops in the region. Iran’s task is to give him a win but also preserve some semblance of nuclear enrichment.
The government in Tehran sees capitulating to Washington’s demands on uranium enrichment and ballistic missiles as riskier to its survival than going to war, analysts say.