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“We Had One Last Shot — We Took It”: IDF Chief Reveals Israel’s Last-Minute Total War Order
jfeed ^ | JUN 20, 2025 | Yair Kleinbaum

Posted on 06/21/2025 5:47:26 AM PDT by daniel1212

Dramatic revelations confirm that the launching of a full-scale military campaign against Iran was made "at the last possible moment" - under growing pressure from intelligence warnings.

Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir addressed the Security Cabinet on the eve of the attack, presenting the final operational plans. Several cabinet members reportedly heard the details for the first time during that meeting....

Security officials estimate Iran currently possesses around 2,000 ballistic missiles capable of reaching Israel’s home front - a figure that could have doubled within a year due to Iran's accelerating production.

Another major achievement has been the systematic targeting of Iran’s missile launch systems. \..

Iran's weakening has direct consequences across the region, including on Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: ballisticmissiles; culture; foreignaffairs; government; hezbollah; houthis; iran; isolationism; manufacturing; missileproduction; missiles; yemen

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IDF Chief of Staff: “Prepare for a Prolonged Campaign - We Have Entered the Most Complex War in Israel’s History"

He stated that Israel went to war at a time when Iran possessed 2,500 surface-to-surface missiles. According to defense estimates, if production continued at the same pace, that number could have reached 8,000 within two years.

IDF Confirms Missile Launches from Iran Toward Israel - 10 Million Ordered into Shelters JUN 20, 2025 19:44

Update - 08:00 EST - Following an order not to exit safe areas unless explicitly instructed. The Home Command Office lifted the restrictions, and ordered the populatin to continue to follow Home Front Command guidelines.

1 posted on 06/21/2025 5:47:26 AM PDT by daniel1212
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Think about this scenario Daniel, while the US B2s are on their way with bunker buster bombs: Israel’s vaunted Unit 505, or Sayeret Matkal, has developed an enormous amount of entering underground tunnels, even when steel doors are in place, in Gaza, and have successfully destroyed hundreds of miles of tunnels. Might they use that same expertise in Iran by entering Fordow, and inspecting and disabling all facilities, and then blowing it up from within? Just sayin’, the US might not have to drop the crowd pleasers and their entrance could be part of the deception.


2 posted on 06/21/2025 6:08:07 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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3 posted on 06/21/2025 6:13:21 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Eli Kopter
US B2s are on their way with bunker buster bombs: I

B-52's can also drop bunker busters.

4 posted on 06/21/2025 6:32:08 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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Yes they can. But the Press is making a big issue of B2s leaving their homes last night and redeploying to the ME. I am guessing that President Trump is doing a ‘sleight of hand’ on Iran to have them focused on the VBBs (Very Big Bombs), while Israel’s Unit 505 is preparing to breach Fordow. But it is just a guess, so we will see. I doubt that Iran has the two weeks they think they have. Trump said “Within two weeks”, which from him means from the next twenty seconds and two weeks.


5 posted on 06/21/2025 6:40:11 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: Eli Kopter

>>Trump said “Within two weeks”, which from him means from the next twenty seconds and two weeks.

Excellent point that I’d not noticed. Comforting.


6 posted on 06/21/2025 6:59:21 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: Eli Kopter

Agree. They maybe be able to dismantle AND haul off all non radioactive parts to Israel. Not to mention install tiny cameras all over Iran in case the Mullahs or Jihadis still control the nation.


7 posted on 06/21/2025 7:05:04 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: Candor7

I suspect that that particular weapon, the self-aware Mark 1 Mod 1 Lord of Hosts, has already decided to enter the fray.


8 posted on 06/21/2025 7:27:29 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: mairdie

You didn’t notice that because the media only hears what it wants to hear and reports what it wants to report.


9 posted on 06/21/2025 7:39:24 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: Getready

I suspect that the cameras are already there. As far as when the Unit 505 might go, today (Shabbat), would be an excellent day because everyone is focused on the B2s and the US, and assume Israel won’t attack during Shabbat. One cannot stress enough that the Israelis have been training for tunnel incursion for more than two years, and no one knows what they are capable of.


10 posted on 06/21/2025 7:41:57 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: daniel1212

BGU-57 is B-2 only And it is the deepest penetrating bomb.


11 posted on 06/21/2025 8:44:28 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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It’s amazing. Starting a war with Pearl Harbor sneak attacks used to be the mark of perfidity, of the coward. Now it’s the norm.


12 posted on 06/21/2025 8:57:47 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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Sneak attacks? Iran has been launching missiles and rockets at Israel for years.


13 posted on 06/21/2025 9:36:58 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Ancesthntr

Just so we remember who is in charge.Its interesting to watch the Divine at work.


14 posted on 06/21/2025 9:54:58 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: daniel1212

bmk


15 posted on 06/21/2025 12:11:38 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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To: DesertRhino
It’s amazing. Starting a war with Pearl Harbor sneak attacks used to be the mark of perfidity, of the coward. Now it’s the norm.

You mean perfidy = a betrayal of a trust, as if it was Israel who could not be trusted, and as if it was Israel being the entity who was not acting in self-defense, and shouting "Death to America" and aligned with other militant powers seeking the same, driven by an anti-Judaeo-Christian religion.

In short, your analogy is perverse. Are you at least being paid for this?

16 posted on 06/21/2025 1:39:47 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: DesertRhino

Iran declared war against the West in 1979.

It funded proxies that killed tens of thousands of Israelis.

Take your anti-semetism elsewhere.


17 posted on 06/21/2025 2:45:11 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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“In short, your analogy is perverse. Are you at least being paid for this?”

And right away, your mind goes to money? What a surprise LOL


18 posted on 06/21/2025 2:59:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: DesertRhino

Wow, you win the stupid prize.


19 posted on 06/21/2025 3:03:58 PM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: DesertRhino
And right away, your mind goes to money? What a surprise LOL

Rather, my mind goes to causality, as at least if you were paid to engage in such a perverse analogy with its casting of Israel as being the villain vs. the victim of militant Islam which seeks its annihilation then it would be more understandable.

20 posted on 06/21/2025 5:28:38 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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