Benjamin Netanyahu has been making the argument that Israel faces existential threat if Iran gets a nuclear bomb for many years.

Tehran launched more than 100 drones at Israel on Friday morning, Israeli's military said, not long after Israel announced it had begun a major operation against Iran, with a wave of airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities,

Israel’s military says that Iran has launched more than 100 drones toward Israeli territory in what is expected to be the first stage of a much larger counter-attack. CNN’s Paula Hancocks shares how citizens are preparing.

Following Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, the country’s leadership immediately identified the U.S. and Israel as its main enemies. This was connected in large part to American and Israeli ties to Iran’s last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who fled Iran while fatally ill ahead of the revolution and despised by Iran’s new leaders.

Iran has already developed a range of options to retaliate for strikes from Israel or the United States, potentially plunging the region into deeper turmoil

CNN’s Jerusalem bureau chief Oren Liebermann explains some of the reasons Israel decided to attack Iran in unprecedented strikes targeting its nuclear program and senior military leaders.

Israel and Iran have opened a new chapter in their long history of conflict. Israel launched a major attack with strikes early Friday that set off explosions in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor, talks with Jen Psaki about the awkwardness of the Trump administration trying to distance itself from Israel's attack on Iran, and what it means about Donald Trump's status that Israel's attack came while Trump was attempting to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Iran.