Despite stunning early successes in Israel’s unprecedented strikes on Iran, a weekend of intensive bombardment and retaliation is raising questions about Israel’s exit strategy – how it can end this conflict with its ambitious goals achieved.

Israel and Iran both have little incentive to stop and no obvious route to outright victory. Much depends on President Trump.

The IDF aerial superiority over Tehran after killing four Iranian intelligence officials and destroying one-third of Iran's missile launchers.

Iran and Israel continued trading fire in a fourth day of armed escalations. "The residents of Tehran will pay the price, and soon," Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz pledged following reported Iranian strikes against Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, killing at least five people, while Israel claimed in the fourth day of the conflict that it had now achieved “aerial superiority” over Tehran and could fly over the Iranian capital with impunity.