Smuggled drones, weapons, and Mossad: Inside Israel’s Iran strikes
With the military campaign still ongoing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears set on the difficult, perhaps impossible mission, of fully eliminating Iran’s nuclear project.
TEL AVIV — Israel had for weeks been signaling its readiness and desire to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even told reporters that the raid would take place in a matter of days. Speculation ran rife about the control US President Donald Trump might or might not have over Netanyahu’s decision to move against Iran. Yet the attack in the predawn hours of Friday appears to have taken the Iranians by surprise and achieved impressive results.
Unprecedented strikes
In a series of coordinated strikes in the early morning hours of June 13, Israeli fighter planes hit more than 300 targets across Iran, dropping over 320 heavy, precise munitions. Iran responded by launching more than 100 drones toward Israel, but all were intercepted en route before reaching Israeli airspace.
