Shademani, as Khatam al-Anbiya chief was Iran's "War-Time Chief of Staff, the most senior military commander, and the closest figure to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei," the IDF stated.
"It was the 12th hour, and we did act. To save ourselves but also … to protect the world from this incendiary regime,” Netanyahu told Fox News's Bret Baier.
The strike that killed the Islamic Republic officials was possible due to intelligence gathered by the IDF's Intelligence Branch.
Israel's version of Air Force One took off from Ben-Gurion Airport on Friday morning just before IDF spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Effie Defrin announced that Iran launched over 100 attack drones.
One way or another, it took Iran a very long time to reach the nuclear threshold. Instead of the expected two to five years, twenty-five years passed. When the moment arrived, it left us no choice.
The Begin Doctrine, created after Israel's strike against Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, commits Israel to preventing any enemy state from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Footage showing intense damage caused by Israel's airstrikes on Iran as part of Operation "Rising Lion" is being shared across Israeli and Iranian social media.
Israeli politicians react to Israel's airstrikes on Iran as part of Operation "Rising Lion."
New IRGC chief, Ahmad Vahidi, previously served as both defense and interior minister and IRGC-QF chief, and is linked with the 1994 bombing the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
This intelligence shows that "the Iranian regime is operating to obtain a nuclear weapon," and that Israel "has been left with no choice" but to conduct airstrikes as part of Operation "Rising Lion."
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