The Conservative Cave

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.

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:

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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: