June 22, 2025
Israel vs Iran - **BREAKING NEWS** Operation Rising Lion: America Enters the War - Trump's Nuclear Strike Changes Everything
After nine days of direct warfare between Israel and Iran, President Trump announced Saturday night that U.S. B-2 bombers had struck three Iranian nuclear facilities, including the underground Fordow enrichment site. Using 30,000-pound "bunker buster" bombs, America "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's key nuclear infrastructure, marking the first direct U.S. attack on Iranian territory in history. Trump warned that "ANY RETALIATION" would be met with even greater force. What began as a regional feud has now escalated into direct confrontation between nuclear powers, fundamentally changing Middle Eastern warfare and global security. The shadow war has become a shooting war, and the ending is more uncertain than ever.
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Caalaruga Shark Media. Welcome back to Feud's power, pride, and payback.
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I'm Marcus Reid. Just hours ago, President Donald Trump announced
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from the White House that the United States had directly
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attacked Iran's nuclear program, dropping what he called a full
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payload of bombs on three Iranian nuclear facilities, including the
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heavily fortified underground four to enrichment site that Israeli forces
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couldn't penetrate. Trump told the nation, I can report to
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the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
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Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities were completely and totally obliterated.
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What began nine days ago as Operation Rising Lion, Israel's
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largest military assault on Iran since the nineteen eighties, has
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now become the first direct American military attack on Iranian
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nuclear facilities in history. The United States has officially entered
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what military analysts are calling the most dangerous regional conflict
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since World War II. Unlike our previous episodes about celebrity
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feuds or political rivalries, tonight we're dealing with something far
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more consequential. When Taylor Swift and Kanye West feuded, careers
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were damaged. When Trump and Musk clashed. It was about
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ego and business. When Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni had
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their falling out, it played out in tabloids. But when
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nuclear powers go to war, the stakes aren't just personal
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or political. They're civilizational. This isn't just another chapter in
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Middle Eastern warfare. This is the moment when a regional
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feud between two former allies dragged the world's most powerful
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military into direct confrontation with a nuclear threshold nation. This
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is how the Shadow War became World War III. This
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is episode seven, Operation Rising Lion, Act one, the friendship
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that became hatred. To understand how we reach this moment,
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we need to go back to when Iran and Israel
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were not just allies but close partners in a hostile region.
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Before nineteen seventy nine, the Shas Iran was one of
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Israel's strongest supporters in the Middle East. Both faced hostile
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Arab neighbors. Both were non Arab powers in a region
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dominated by Arab nationalism. Iranian oil flowed to Israeli refineries.
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Israeli agricultural expertise helped modernize Iran Military cooperation was so
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close that Israel helped train Iranian pilots and shared intelligence
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about Soviet activities. Then came February nineteen seventy nine. The
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Iranian Revolution didn't just overthrow the Shah. It created a
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theocratic regime that defined itself in direct opposition to Israel's existence.
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Ayatola Ruhola Komani declared the Jewish state a cancerost tumor
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that needed to be eliminated. Iran broke diplomatic ties, expelled
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Israeli diplomats, and handed over the Israeli embassy in Tehran
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to the Palestinian Liberation Organization. What followed was the creation
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of what Iran calls the Axis of Resistance, a network
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of proxy forces designed to strangle Israel without directly confronting
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its military. In nineteen eighty two, Iran helped create Hesbelah.
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Through the nineteen nineties and two thousands, Tehran funded Hamas
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in Gaza, Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, and various
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militia groups in Syria and Iraq for four decades. This
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proxy war worked perfectly for Iran. They could bleed Israel
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through constant, low level conflict while maintaining plausible deniability Israel
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would retaliate against Hamas or his Belah, but rarely against
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Iran directly. It was a shadow war that let Iran
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pose as the champion of Palestinian resistance while keeping its
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own territory safe from Israeli retaliation. But every strategy contains
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the seeds of its own destruction, and Iran's proxy network
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was about to become its greatest vulnerability. Act two the
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nuclear card. While Iran one was building its network of
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proxy forces, it was also pursuing a far more dangerous weapon,
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nuclear capability. Iran's nuclear program officially began in the nineteen
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fifties with American assistance, but after nineteen seventy nine it
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took on an entirely different character. Under the Islamic Republic,
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the nuclear program became both a symbol of national pride
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and an insurance policy against foreign attack. Iran watched as
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the United States invaded Iraq in two thousand and three
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and Libya in twenty eleven, countries without nuclear weapons. Meanwhile
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North Korea, with its nuclear arsenal, remained untouched despite far
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more provocative behavior. The message was clear, nuclear weapons provide
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security that conventional forces cannot. For Israel, watching Iran's nuclear
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program develop was like watching an existential threat take shape
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in slow motion. Israeli intelligence estimated that Iran was pursuing
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not just nuclear energy, but nuclear weapons capability. The enriched uranium,
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the missile technology, the underground facilities all pointed toward a
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program designed to give Iran the ultimate deterrent against Israeli
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military action. By twenty ten, Israel was seriously considering military
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action against Iran's nuclear facilities. The Obama administration negotiated the
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twenty fifteen Iran nuclear deal that froze Tehran's nuclear program
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in exchange for sanctions relief. For a brief moment, it
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seemed like diplomacy might diffuse the nuclear crisis. Then Donald
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Trump won the twenty sixteen election. In twenty eighteen, Trump
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withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal, reimposed sanctions,
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and essentially gave Iran a choice except permanent technological inferiority
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or restart the nuclear program. Iran chose to restart the program.
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By twenty twenty four, Iranian officials were publicly boasting that
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they had enough enriched uranium for multiple nuclear weapons. Western
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intelligence estimated that Iran was perhaps months away from weapons capability.
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For Benjamin Netanyahu, the situation had become intolerable. The man
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who had built his political career on preventing a nuclear
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Iran was watching his red lines crossed in real time.
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Act three, The Proxy network collapses October seventh, twenty twenty
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three changed everything. When Hamas launched its devastating attack on
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his killing nearly one thousand, two hundred people and taking
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two hundred forty hostages, it triggered not just the Gaza War,
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but the systematic destruction of Iran's entire proxy network. Israel's
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response was unlike anything the region had seen. Rather than limited,
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measured retaliation, Israel launched a total war against Hamas that
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expanded to include all of Iran's regional allies. Hesbellah, Iran's
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most powerful proxy, made the fatal mistake of launching solidarity
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attacks on northern Israel. By September twenty twenty four, Israel
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had systematically dismantled Hesbula's command structure, assassinated virtually its entire leadership,
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including Hassan Nasrallah, and destroyed much of its Iranian supplied
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missile arsenal. Through the Exploding Pager attacks, the Huthis and
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Yemen found their supply roots cut off and their missile
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stockpiles depleted. Various militia groups in Iraq and Syria were
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degraded through constant Israeli strikes. Most dramatically, Iran's key regional
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ally Bashar al Asads Syria, collapsed entirely in December twenty
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twenty four, ending Iran's land bridge to its Lebanese proxy.
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By early twenty twenty five, Iran's proxy network was in
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ruins for the first time since nineteen seventy nine. Iran
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faced the prospect of direct confrontation with Israel without the
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buffer of Allied forces fighting on its behalf. This vulnerability
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coincided with Iran's nuclear program reaching what Israeli intelligence considered
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the point of no return Act four. The point of
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no Return the final countdown to war began on June eleventh,
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twenty twenty five, when the International Atomic Energy Agency reported
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that Iran was taking unprecedented steps toward weaponizing its enriched
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uranium stockpile. Iran's response was defiant. It announced plans to
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create new uranium enrichment facilities and accelerate its nuclear timeline.
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For Netanyahu, this was the moment he had been preparing
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for his entire political career. Israel faced what he called
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a clear and present danger to Israel's very survival, a
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nuclear armed Iran, led by leaders who had repeatedly promised
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Israel's destruction. President Trump, newly inaugurated in January twenty twenty five,
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had publicly warned against military action, preferring renewed diplomatic pressure,
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but Nettunyahu had concluded that diplomacy was a dead end.
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Iran had used previous negotiations to buy time for nuclear advance.
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Every deal was temporary, every pause was tactical. On June twelfth,
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in a late night call to President Trump, Nettun Yahoo
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informed the American president that Israel would launch military action
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against Iran within hours. Trump reportedly urged restraint, warning of
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massive conflict that could engulf the region. Netanyahu's response was simple,
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we have no choice. Act five, Operation Rising Lion. At
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three am local time on June thirteenth, twenty twenty five,
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Israel launched the largest military operation in its history. The
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operation's name Rising Lion carried deep symbolic meaning, referencing both
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biblical scripture and the lion and sun emblem that represented
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Iran before the nineteen seven seventy nine revolution. The message
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was clear. Israel was not just attacking Iran's nuclear program,
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but challenging the very legitimacy of the Islamic Republic itself.
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More than two hundred Israeli fighter jets, including Cutting Edge
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F thirty five the Stealth fighters modified with extended range
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fuel tanks, struck over one hundred targets across Iran. The
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primary target was the Natan's nuclear facility, Iran's largest uranium
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enrichment site, but the operation also hit military bases, missile installations,
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and command centers from Tehran to Tabriz. But the most
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devastating aspect wasn't the air strikes, it was the MOSAD
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operation that made them possible. For months, Israeli intelligence had
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been infiltrating Iran's security systems. MOSAD had established a covert
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drone base near Tehran, smuggled precision weapons into central Iran,
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and positioned strike system near critical air defense installations. When
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the attack began, these prepositioned assets disabled Iran's air defenses,
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giving Israeli jets air superiority over one of the most
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heavily defended airspaces in the world. The human cost was
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immediate and devastating. Among the confirmed dead were Iran's most
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powerful military leaders, Hossain Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary
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Guard Corps, Mohammed Bagheri, chief of staff of the Iranian
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Armed Forces, and multiple nuclear scientists. The natan's facility was
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completely destroyed, its fifteen thousand uranium enrichment centrifuges rendered useless
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by precision strikes. But Israel had crossed a line that
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hadn't been crossed since Iraq's attack on Iran in nineteen eighty.
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A foreign military was conducting large scale operations on Iranian soil,
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targeting the regime's most prized assets and killing its most
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senior officials. Iran's response was swift and furious. Act six
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the Missile Rain. Beginning on the evening of June thirteenth,
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Iran launched what it called uninterrupted missile attacks on Israel.
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Over the past ten days, Iranian forces have fired more
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than four hundred ballistic missiles at Israeli cities, military basis,
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and infrastructure. The attacks reached a particularly devastating crescendo this week.
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On Thursday, June nineteenth, Iran launched cluster bomb missiles weapons
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that split in mid air to spread smaller munitions across
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a wide area. One such missile struck Soroka Hospital in Beersheba,
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wounding seventy one people. Other strikes hit residential buildings in
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ramat Ghan and industrial facilities in Holan. But Iran's escalation
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came at enormous cost. Israeli estimates suggest they destroyed two
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thirds of Iran's ballistic missile launchers, crippling Tehran's ability to
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sustain its bombardment. More than four hundred Iranians have been killed,
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according to human rights organizations, while Israel reported twenty four dead,
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all civilians. Most significantly, the White House revealed on Thursday
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that Iran was now capable of producing a nuclear weapon
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in a couple of weeks, a dramatic acceleration from previous estimates.
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This development intensified discussions about whether the United States should
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join Israel's military campaign. Before Iran crossed the nuclear threshold,
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More importantly, Iran was fighting alone in previous conflicts. Hesbola
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would have opened a second front from Lebanon. Iraqi militias
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would have attacked American bases. The Huthis would have disrupted
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shipping in the Red Sea, but Iran's proxy network, decimated
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by more than a year of warfare, was unable to
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provide meaningful support. For the first time since nineteen seventy nine,
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Iran was fighting Israel directly on its own soil without
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the buffer of Proxy Forces. Act seven America enters the war.
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As the conflict entered its tenth day, intelligence reports suggested
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the underground four dough facility, built deep inside a mountain,
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remained largely operational and could potentially produce weapons grade uranium
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within weeks. This development created urgent discussions within the Trump
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administration about using American bunker busting bombs, the only weapons
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capable of destroying four dohs heavily protected facilities. According to
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White House so forrses, Trump made the final decision to
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strike Iran in a situation room meeting, ending what one
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official described as the most consequential foreign policy decision of
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his presidency. The strikes targeted three critical sites, the underground
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four doh enrichment facility buried deep in a mountain near Kam,
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the rebuilt Natans facility that Israel had previously damaged, and
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the Isfahan Nuclear Research complex. American B two stealth bombers
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operating from undisclosed locations delivered what military sources confirmed were
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thirty thousand pound bunker buster bombs, the first known operational
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use of these massive weapons. Trump warned Iran tonight, saying
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any future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.
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Any retaliation made against the United States of America will
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be met with even greater force. The tragic irony cannot
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be overstated. Before nineteen seventy nine, Iran was one of
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America's closest allies in the Middle East. For forty six years,
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America and Iran have fought through proxies, sanctions, and diplomatic
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chess matches. Until tonight, they had never engaged in direct
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military combat. That era is now over. Trump's decision represents
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the first time in history that one nuclear power has
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militarily attacked another nation's nuclear program to prevent weapons development.
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The precedent is staggering. If nuclear powers can preemptively strike
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to prevent proliferation, the entire framework of nuclear deterrence may
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have fundamentally changed. The decision has created immediate political fractures
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within Trump's own coalition. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called
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for enforcement of the War Powers Act, demanding that Congress
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be consulted before further military action. A recent poll showed
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that fifty three percent of Trump voters opposed US involvement
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in the Israel Iran conflict. Tonight's strikes represent exactly the
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kind of military entanglement that Trump's America first base elected
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him to avoid. Epilogue the war that changed everything. As
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we record this emergency update, the world is holding its
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breath for Iran's response. Supreme Leader Kameni has repeatedly warned
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that American involvement would bring irreparable consequences for US interests
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throughout the region. Iran maintains proxy forces in Iraq, Syria,
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and Yemen that could target American military bases, diplomatic facilities,
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or commercial shipping. Trump's warn to Iran was characteristically blunt.
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Any retaliation made against the United States of America will
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be met with even greater force than what was unleashed today.
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But Iran has never backed down from confrontation with superior
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military force. The Islamic Republic was founded in revolution, survived
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eight years of war with Iraq, and has spent four
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decades building what it calls a culture of resistance. What
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we witness tonight represents more than escalation in a regional conflict.
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It represents the emergence of a new form of warfare
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in the nuclear age, preemptive strikes against nuclear facilities to
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prevent proliferation. If this precedent holds, every nuclear threshold nation
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