Israel-Iran Conflict: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday, announced that it has completed series of airstrikes targeting key locations in Tehran linked to Iran’s nuclear weapon’s program. According to the IDF, the strikes targeted Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters, the headquarters of the SPND nuclear project, and other facilities associated with Iran’s nuclear development efforts. While IDF informed about the completion of airstrikes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Israel is defending “freedom” in the Middle East and beyond.
The IDF wrote on X, "The IDF completed an extensive series of strikes on targets in Tehran related to the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons project. The targets included the Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters, the headquarters of the SPND nuclear project, and additional targets, which advanced the Iranian regime’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon and where the Iranian regime hid its nuclear archive."
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In another post, IDF firmly stated that they had no choice but to operate against Iran which could have made 15 nuclear bombs, if they didn’t stop them. “That's how many nuclear weapons Iran could've made, before we stopped them. We had no choice but to operate. It’s for our survival,” stated IDF.
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Meanwhile, Netanyahu in a video message, stated that Israel is carrying out attacks to stop the Iranian regime that is building atomic bombs to destroy Israel.
“We're doing so against a tyrannical and radical Iranian regime that wants to build atomic bombs to destroy us and wants to build ballistic missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, to be able to threaten anyone and everywhere in the world,” Netanyahu said.
Notably, the IDF has claimed to have killed 9 senior scientists and experts responsible for advancing the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program. “All of the eliminated scientists and experts, eliminated based on intelligence, were key factors in the development of Iranian nuclear weapons. Their elimination is a significant blow to the regime’s ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction,” read IDF’s post on X.