Israeli statement:
IDF: Launching Operation "Am Kalavi" to attack the Iranian regime's nuclear program and long-range missile capabilities. Dozens of military targets in various areas of Iran were attacked as an opening strike.
Military command targets, commanders, military targets, headquarters, and nuclear sites were attacked.
The alarms that were activated across the country - not due to missile firing, but to prepare the public for the possibility of missile firing soon.
The IDF identified a convergence of 3 components:
The Iranians are racing to develop a nuclear weapon, possessing enough enriched uranium for 15 nuclear bombs within days, Iranian scientists are working to assemble the various parts to build a nuclear bomb. The project is at such a stage that if we do not act now, we will know less every day.,
The Iranians have thousands of ballistic missiles - with a plan to double and triple the number in the coming year, but this is an existential threat regardless of the nuclear threat.,
Distributing weapons and ammunition to emissaries in the region.,
The IDF says that the Iranians have developed a plan to destroy the State of Israel, by using widespread and precise fire from the entire Iranian axis, a ground invasion using pickup trucks from all borders, and undermining the regimes in Jordan and Egypt.
IDF: "We are in a strategic window of opportunity. We have reached a point of no return, there is no choice but to act now."
The IDF is preparing for an operation lasting at least several days, including the expectation of heavy Iranian barrages, and says: Full dialogue is taking place with the US military.
The IDF clarifies that they are not working to overthrow the regime in Iran, but rather that the target is military infrastructure and nuclear sites - and according to the best estimates, the opening strike in Iran was very surprising, in scope and in places that the Iranians did not expect.
"At the end of the operation - there will be no nuclear threat"
