The Israel Defense Forces launched “Operation Rising Lion” against Iran after an intelligence breakthrough revealed that Tehran was close to weaponizing its nuclear program, Israel’s Army Radio reported on Sunday.
Israeli intelligence reportedly uncovered “golden information” that the Islamic regime had assembled an elite “weapons group” in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terror attacks in southern Israel. While Tehran already possessed enough enriched uranium for roughly 15 bombs, the weapons group had reached the experimental phase over the past months, with successful tests confirming rapid technical progress.
Israel’s defense establishment concluded that the Islamic Republic was mere weeks away from being capable of assembling a working nuclear weapon, with warnings indicating that its true capabilities might even be further developed, according to Sunday’s Army Radio report. Early on Friday, Israeli Air Force fighter jets launched attacks on dozens of targets, including military and nuclear sites, in a “preemptive, precise, combined offensive” campaign against Tehran’s nuclear capabilities. (Read more)