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SVPete:
Israel strikes nuclear and missile sites across Iran

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/13/israel-strike-iran-trump-nuclear-talks


--- Quote ---The Israeli Air Force conducted dozens of strikes in Iran on Thursday targeting nuclear and missile sites.

Why it matters: Israel is directly attacking its biggest and best-armed adversary, without clear backing from the U.S.

* President Trump publicly opposed an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites on Thursday, saying he still believed a nuclear deal was possible.

*Hours later, Israel began targeting nuclear sites as well military headquarters, military commanders, and other Iranian officials, Israeli officials said.

Driving the news: Sirens sounded across Israel on Thursday night. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared a special state of emergency across the entire country.

* "Following the State of Israel's preemptive strike against Iran, a missile and drone attack against the state of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate future," Katz said.
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Hopefully Israel has and will continue to dish out a large enough helping of FO that Iran's Mullahcracy loses all its capability to FA.

DefiantSix:
Apparently the IAF doesn't need the green light from Washington DC to deal with the sword the mullahs have hung over their heads for more than a generation. (Thanks EVER so much, Big Mike's Li'l Bitch...) :whatever:

All they needed was the imprimatur of Sky-Six Actual... :greet:

Zathras:
Iran has finally entered the Find Out phase.

SVPete:
Israel launches preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear sites, military targets

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-857575


--- Quote ---The IDF had not stopped attacking since the initial wave. Rather, as of 4:30 a.m., the IAF was still carrying out broad attacks, and there were no specific signs of stopping.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Iran is gearing up to produce tens of thousands of ballistic missiles, which could kill millions of Israelis even without nuclear weapons, but imagine if any of them had nuclear weapons on them.

Further, Netanyahu stated Iran may only be a few months away from being able to actually make a nuclear weapon, and not just have enough uranium.

A senior defense official on Friday morning said that there is an increasing possibility that the Iranian high command, including Iran's military chief and Iran's senior nuclear scientists, have been killed in the preemptive strike.
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The IDF confirmed that the reason for the attack is to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
"Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Iranian regime are an existential threat to the State of Israel and to the wider world," the military said.

According to the IDF, Iran has enough uranium to weaponize it to nuclear levels, for 15 nuclear weapons within days.
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From updates in this Hot Air post https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/12/breaking-israel-conducts-airstrikes-in-iran-n3803743 :


--- Quote ---Update: The IDF may have taken out the command-and-control center for Iran's missile assets:
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Update: Rubio sent a pretty clear warning to Iran:

Embedded statement that Israel's strike was unilateral and warning Iran not to target US interests or personnel
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Update: Benjamin Netanyahu made clear that this is not a one-night operation:
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Update: Here's the statement from Netanyahu, which claims that Iran had begun to "weaponize" their enriched uranium, and that was the last straw:
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Update: If this is true, the Israeli intelligence on Iran is spooky good. And the Iranians were asleep at the switch.
Embedded claim that the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was taken out
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Update: Israel may have taken out the entire top of the military command:
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Update: The Times of Israel reports that their top nuclear scientists got killed as well:
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Update: They went after the ballistic missile sites too, at least those that the IDF knew about:
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Update: Even the regime media is reporting that the top commander in the IRGC is dead:
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Update: The operation is going well enough that the Israelis are beginning to talk about how that happened. The Mossad got an early start in disabling Iranian defenses and missile systems:

--- Quote ---The Mossad carried out a series of covert sabotage operations against Iranian air defenses and missile facilities in tandem with the widespread strikes at a number of locations across Iran.
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Update: They got (Quds Force's) Soleimani's replacement too:
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Finding Out indeed!

Both Hot Air and PJMedia, https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/06/12/breaking-israel-bombs-iran-in-preemptive-strike-n4940748 , have posts to which they are appending news as it comes . The PJMedia post has some specifics that Hot Air did not have when I first posted this.

SVPete:
If some Iranian higher up has a quarter of a rational brain, he'd be pointing out to the rest that Israel had wreaked and is wreaking all this destruction without using the nuclear weapons Israel does have.

One interesting aspect of this attack is that there are multiple countries between Israel and Iran or a very round-about over-water route over the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Arabian Sea. While Israel does have some air tankers and could do mid-air refueling, that long route would pretty much deprive IAF fliers of secrecy and surprise. Israel probably flew a more direct route over Syria (no longer an Iranian ally or even friend) and northern Iraq. An alternate to Syria would be Jordan, but that would take Israeli planes over central Iraq.

I'm going to WAG that Israel went over Syria, who were playing ball somewhat and whose SAM systems were at best disorganized and maybe got some cooperation from Iraq (if Iraq has SAMs in their north). IMO, the US did not know before planes took off, but I'm sure US forces in multiple places saw and had already been told as Israeli planes came near not to interfere and to keep silent.

As usual, my guesses and a tenner will get you coffee and change at Dutch Bros.

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