🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. officials do not have a clear plan for who would take power if Iran’s regime collapsed, CNN reports.

➡️ U.S. intelligence suggests the IRGC would likely fill any immediate leadership vacuum, but its internal hierarchy is not well understood, especially after the killing of Qasem Soleimani.

➡️ Unlike in Venezuela, the U.S. lacks detailed insight into potential successors. Some officials believe there was a brief window during peak protests when military action might have shifted momentum toward Iran’s opposition.

➡️ Sources familiar with the intelligence told CNN that they now wonder whether Trump “missed the moment" and question whether military strikes weeks later would accomplish what they could have last month.