“Everybody was very taken aback by the committee rules being essentially not enforced and certainly just broken immediately,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said.
The Israeli Air Force conducted numerous strikes across Iran Saturday morning in an attempt to assassinate Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other senior political and military leaders, Israeli and U.S. officials told Axios. Why it matters: The U.S. and Iran have launched a massive joint military operation in an effort to destabilize the Iranian regime, which has been in power since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. - "The goal is to create all the conditions for the downfall of the Iranian regime, but developments will also depend on the extent to which the Iranian people rise up," an Israeli official said. Zoom in: Israeli officials said Israel is targeting the entire Iranian leadership — political and military, past, present, and future…