>>508532730IDF: Launching Operation "Am Kalavi" (rising lion) to destroy the Iranian regime's nuclear program and severely damage long-range missile firing and manufacturing capabilities. Dozens of military targets were attacked in various areas of Iran in the opening strike.
Military command targets, commanders, military targets, headquarters, and nuclear sites were attacked.
The alarms that were activated throughout the country - not due to missile firing but to prepare the public for the possibility of missile firing soon.
The IDF identified a convergence of 3 components:
1. The Iranians are racing to develop a nuclear device, possessing enough enriched uranium for 15 nuclear bombs within a few days, Iranian scientists are working to assemble the various parts to build the nuclear bomb. The project is at such a stage that if we do not act now, we will know less every day.
2. The Iranians have thousands of ballistic missiles - with a plan to double and triple the number in the coming year, but this alone is an existential threat regardless of the nuclear threat.
3. Proliferation of weapons and ammunition to proxies in the region.
"We are in a strategic window of opportunity. We have reached a point of no return, there is no choice but to act now."
The IDF is preparing for an operation lasting at least several days or weeks, including the expectation of heavy Iranian barrages, and says: Full dialogue is underway with the US military.
The IDF clarifies that they are not working to overthrow the regime in Iran, but rather that the target is military infrastructure and nuclear sites - and according to the best estimates, the opening strike in Iran was very surprising, in a scope and in places that the Iranians did not expect.
"At the end of the operation - there will be no nuclear threat"
