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An Immediate Operational Necessity’: Why Israel Finally Attacked Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, ABC News reports | FMT
SOURCE: Free Malaysia Today
Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, ABC News reports | FMT SOURCE: Free Malaysia Today

David Horovitz
Times of Israel
, June 13, 2025

“We can’t leave these threats for the next generation because if we don’t act now, there will not be another generation.”

The IDF, in an official statement issued soon after Israel began attacking Iran’s nuclear program, described the resort to force as a “preemptive strike.” Why preemptive? Because in the assessment of Israel’s security chiefs, Iran’s nuclear weapons program had advanced to the point of an existential threat, from a regime avowedly seeking to bring about Israel’s destruction. After years of vows to take military action, the IDF’s Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, in a statement to the nation, declared that the situation had “reached the point of no return.’

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has highlighted Iran’s accelerated uranium enrichment program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a prerecorded video address issued when the Israeli attack was under way, specified that the regime now has enough enriched uranium for nine nuclear weapons.

As Israel well knows, Iran has missiles that can reach anywhere in the country. And, said Netanyahu, Iran has been taking unprecedented steps toward “weaponization” — building the bomb. … [To read the full article, click here]

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