Israel claims Iran was assembling 15 nuclear warheads before latest offensive
Israel warns that Iran was assembling 15 nuclear warheads and their attack was in self-defense.
Roni Kaplan, Israeli military's spokesperson, stated in a press conference that Israel's airstrike on Iran was a preemptive, precise, and highly intelligent offensive to attack Iran's nuclear program; as he claims that Iran was assembling 15 nuclear warheads.
According to Kaplan, Israel's "Operation Rising Lion", was launched at the last possible moment. "The State of Israel will not allow the most dangerous regime in the world to obtain the most dangerous weapons on the planet," Kaplan said.
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Israel claims that the Iranian regime was assembling 15 nuclear warheads
According to Israel's security chiefs, Iran's nuclear weapons officially represented a threat to the country, as Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir stated in a public declaration that they "had reached the point of no return."
Kaplan, on the other hand, stated that Iran was working on 'a joint scientific-military program for nuclear weapons' specifically aimed at targeting Israel. According to him, the October 2023 Hamas attack, which sparked the current Israel-Palestine conflict, could not have occurred without Iran's financial and technological support.
What is next in the Iran-Israel conflict?
Roni Kaplan, stated that Israel still has "many targets left in Iran", which makes it difficult to know exactly what is going to happen next. Additionally, Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated in a press conference in which he confirmed the attack on Iran, that "the operation will continue for as many days as necessary to eliminate this threats".
Netanyahu claimed that Iran's uranium production was sufficient to build nine atomic bombs and highlighted history in his speech to justify the statement, saying that the Jewish people refuse to be victims of another Holocaust, 80 years after the Nazi regime ended, but this time at the hands of Iran. " Never again, starts now", he said.
