Operation Rising Lion: why Israel is attacking Iran

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1. Israel has said its attacks on Tehran are a response to Iran’s enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade levels.

   This week the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time due to Tehran’s unwillingness to disclose information about its nuclear stockpile.

   According to the UN watchdog, Tehran is making rapid progress towards building a nuclear bomb, enriching enough uranium to 60 per cent for nine atomic weapons.

   The Israeli strikes do not appear to have targeted Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Early indications have suggested that Israel attempted to assassinate senior figures in the Iranian regime — similar to the dismantling of Hezbollah, the Shia militia, in Lebanon last year, a process that started with the pager attacks in September.

   Iran’s two main enrichment facilities are buried so deeply into the country’s mountains that it would prove challenging for the Israeli military to destroy them. To do that, Israel would need American support.

2. I guess there could be two reasons:

   1. Israel really did see Iran nearly possessing nuclear weapons

   2. Israel guessed this was the time to strike Iran, pull US in a war and have all the talking be over with, and oh yeah, Iran is unable to hurt Israel.

   I can’t help but feel that Israel has just plainly won this conflict. And its going to finish it within the Trump turn, because if the democrats come back, Israel will have less chances.

3. Why is Israel attacking Iran? Because Iran and its proxies have been directly and indirectly attacking Israel for the past two decades?

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