Iran claims ‘new strategy’ as Trump turns to regime change

Fighting between the US and Iran has increased this week after the US hit Iranian rocket launchers on an island in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, saying Iran was planning to use them to shoot mines into the waterway.
Iran attacked US military bases in Kuwait on Thursday, despite US President Donald Trump threatening further strikes in a fresh flare-up six months into the war. 
The sudden recent escalation of the Iran war has cast renewed attention on its civilian toll after Iran reported 18 dead in the last US assault, including four killed and dozens wounded at a wedding.
Iran's health minister said 19 people were killed and 108 wounded in Tuesday night's US strikes across Iran. The Iranian Red Crescent said four people were killed and 67 wounded at a wedding ceremony near the coast of the Strait of Hormuz.
The return of combat operations has alarmed countries throughout the region, as Iran launched missile and drone attacks against what it said were US assets in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq.
Tehran has once again retaliated with strikes across the Middle East this week, saying it targeted US bases and forces in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq's Kurdistan region.
Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei warned the United States on Wednesday that Iran had adopted a "new strategy" in the war that "will shatter your foundations".
“With this desperate flailing, not only will you fail to climb out of the depths of the hell you have created for yourselves, but you will soon witness how Iran’s new strategy in the battlefield, diplomacy, and countering the economic blockade will shatter your foundations,” he said. 
Iran's pummelling of US military targets across the region came after a US attack that hit a wedding in the country's south, prompting fury from Tehran.
The Iranian Red Crescent said shrapnel from the missile attack in the coastal town of Kuhestak killed four people, including a child, and wounded more than 50. Kuwait's army on Thursday said it was intercepting a missile and drone attack from Iran, with the Iranian army saying it hit "the Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait with missiles and drones".
Iran's army also said it struck Al Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, but the Gulf country reported no such attack.
Now, with traffic through the strait still below pre-war levels and diplomacy with Iran at a standstill, Trump has returned to the concept he began the war with six months ago. “When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?” he asked on social media Tuesday.
Trump has privately been asking his national security team for months: Why aren’t the Iranian people toppling their leaders?
It was an outcome he seemed relatively certain of at the start of the war, convinced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that street protests would flare up in Tehran after an intensive round of strikes.
Other American officials, having read intelligence assessments suggesting that wasn’t likely, weren’t so sure, and the issue was hotly debated before the first strikes began, according to people familiar with the matter. Still, Trump launched the conflict in late February with a call for a government takeover.
“This will be probably your only chance for generations,” he advised the Iranian people in a video the night the war began.