Looking ahead, the IDF warned that Iran’s damaged nuclear facilities could take months or even longer to repair.

Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Doran claims Israel achieved “unbelievable successes” in its first couple of days of attacking Iran.

In recent months, however, Israel talked about a unique window of opportunity to strike Iranian facilities: Iran’s air defences had been damaged by Israeli attacks last year and its proxies in the region, part of what Tehran calls the Axis of Resistance, had been degraded, including Hezbollah.

With the launch of Operation ‘Rising Lion’, Israel appears to have sought to take advantage of a narrow window of opportunity. Through its own actions over the last 18

Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, disagrees that Israeli cannot destroy Iran's nuclear program, noting the way it had killed Iranian-backed Hezbollah ...

Iran launched three retaliatory waves of missiles at targets in Israel on June 13, as Israelis rode out the attacks in bomb shelters and world leaders discussed the deepening conflict.

The strikes came after the Israeli military said it had carried out fresh strikes on Iran nuclear infrastructure sites.