Israel Strikes Iran

Operation Rising Lion: The 20-Year Backstory

Israel Strikes Iran is the striking, dramatic, and copiously-sourced account of how the Iranian regime labored for decades to develop nuclear missiles for use against Israel — to usher in an apocalyptic paradise, and  how Israel employed measures both spectacular and subtle to prevent this. On June 13, 2025, decades of Israeli strategy, planning, and tactics came together Operation Rising Lion. With support from the US in Operation Midnight Hammer, the 12-Day War began. It ended with Iran’s principle weapons development sites in rubble and ruins and the ayatollahs’ world-ending desires thwarted — for a time.