Looking ahead, the IDF warned that Iran’s damaged nuclear facilities could take months or even longer to repair.

Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Doran claims Israel achieved “unbelievable successes” in its first couple of days of attacking Iran.

In recent months, however, Israel talked about a unique window of opportunity to strike Iranian facilities: Iran’s air defences had been damaged by Israeli attacks last year and its proxies in the region, part of what Tehran calls the Axis of Resistance, had been degraded, including Hezbollah.

As tensions escalate, Iran has developed a range of calculated options to retaliate if attacked, raising the stakes for the entire region.

With the launch of Operation ‘Rising Lion’, Israel appears to have sought to take advantage of a narrow window of opportunity. Through its own actions over the last 18

Iran launched three retaliatory waves of missiles at targets in Israel on June 13, as Israelis rode out the attacks in bomb shelters and world leaders discussed the deepening conflict.

The strikes came after the Israeli military said it had carried out fresh strikes on Iran nuclear infrastructure sites.