Posted on 06/26/2025 11:15:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The IDF publishes a summary of Operation Rising Lion, ...
According to the report, for months leading up to the operation, Military Intelligence gathered evidence that Iran was rapidly enriching uranium to 60% - a level sufficient to produce several nuclear bombs in a short time. Intelligence also revealed a covert regime plan involving advanced nuclear weapon research and experimentation in key areas.
In parallel, the Iranian regime was preparing to triple its production of precision missiles, expanding its arsenal from 2,500 to 8,000 missiles. This was part of a broader strategy that included a multi-front attack against Israel, beginning with missile strikes launched from Iran and its proxies, and culminating in a large-scale ground invasion across Israel’s borders.
Recognizing the urgency, the IDF - working in close coordination with the United States - identified strategic vulnerabilities in the Iranian regime and launched a surprise offensive, seizing a narrow window of opportunity before the threat became irreversible.
Preparation and Execution
Planning for the operation accelerated in October 2024, during intense fighting with Hezbollah. The campaign targeted Iran’s critical systems - nuclear infrastructure, military command centers, air defenses, weapons production, economic hubs, and governing bodies.
The opening strike achieved complete surprise and established Israeli air superiority over Iranian skies. The Israel Air Force flew over 2,000 kilometers, carrying out more than 1,500 sorties and striking over 900 targets. Approximately 80 of 100 anti-aircraft systems were destroyed. Fighter jets executed 370 strikes, some at distances exceeding 2,400 kilometers, and over 600 aerial refuelings were performed en route.
Simultaneously, the IDF destroyed half of Iran’s ground-to-ground missile launchers, 80 anti-aircraft missile systems, 70 radar installations, six airfields, and more than 35 sites used for producing missiles and air defense systems.... .....
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
60% enrichment is NOT weapons grade, that requires 90%.
So if someone is gong to cut your head off with a rusty knife is it wise to attack now before the knife is sharpened.?....just askn for a friend.
It takes many many times longer to go from 0% to 60%. It doesn't scale in a linear fashion.
It's like the classic diff eq problem of breeding rabbits.
I guess Israel should have waited till it was at 90%. Better yet, they should have waited till the Iranian missiles were fitted with nuclear warheads and headed towards them. /s
Excellent excellent work. But the job’s not done.
Then the article should say so. But it lied. Are we soft on journalists now?
Actually, No. Israel was supposed to just sit there and be nuked, period, end of file. Jews having the gall/ chutzpah/ audacity to actually defend themselves are not part of Satanic Jew-haters’ Script.
(perhaps one of these days the Nazis and IslamoNazis will get the message that the Jews no longer subscribe to that Script. Peace will then become possible....)
Their nuclear program of refining-concentrating uranium with centrifuges is not for peaceful uses, such as to make electricity. They have hydrocarbons coming out the wazoo, Burning natural gas supplies 86% of their electricity.
That centrifuged uranium has never been put into their reactor to make electricity.
>>”..the article should say so. But it lied. Are we soft on journalists now?”
The article didn’t lie. Here’s the quote:
“According to the report, for months leading up to the operation, Military Intelligence gathered evidence that Iran was rapidly enriching uranium to 60% - a level sufficient to produce several nuclear bombs in a short time.”
Did you catch that? “a level sufficient to produce several nuclear bombs in a short time”. What part of that is untrue?
As Governor Dinwiddie pointed out, the time it takes to go from 60% to 90% is short.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4325562/posts?page=4#4
Military Intelligence gathered evidence that Iran was rapidly enriching uranium to 60% - a level sufficient to produce several nuclear bombs in a short time.
This reminds me of that “darling” of the democRATS and DemoKKKrats, Helen Thomas. She insisted that Judea (Jew-dea) Jerusalem (Jew-rusalem) were not historically Jewish, that all Jews should leave. When asked just where should all the Jews live, Ms Thomas replied: Poland and Germany. Ah, yes. Those two areas with such a great history of murdering millions of Jews. Perhaps that was Helen’s secret wish; that Poland and Germany “finish the job” of eliminating Jews once and for all.
“Better yet, they should have waited till the Iranian missiles were fitted with nuclear warheads and headed towards them”
Notice Jerusalem wasn’t attacked? That’s because the Dome of the Rock is there. To Nuke Israel Iran would have to destroy a Muslim holy site. That is what protects Israel from nukes. They hyped a non issue and they know it.
Read the whole article. It addresses that fact. If you’ve gotten to 60%, you’re two-thirds of the way to 90%.
“Then the article should say so. But it lied.”
“a level sufficient to produce several nuclear bombs in a short time”
The “short time” is the time required to 1. enrich to 90%, and 2. metallicize the uranium into a dense core, at which point it is an a-bomb if it’s at critical mass.
1. Who cares if it’s 40...50..60%? They’ve been threatening and wanting a nuclear weapon capability for decades in order to threaten the rest of the world, including their neighbors.
2. They chant “death to America”, wish to destroy Christianity, America and any other form of governance and religion other than Islam. They’ve sponsored and trained terrorists throughout the world in order to achieve that goal. They must be destroyed in such a manner that they can no longer even attempt to harm us ever again....
They must wake up and grow up with the fear that the great satan of the USA will not throw a bomb through their window and send their mothers,fathers,children and all other loved ones to hell within milliseconds.
” If an injury is to be inflicted on an enemy, it is to be so severe, that the enemy’s retaliation need not be feared. – Niccolò Machiavelli.”
What is needed is a great awakening to the FACT that we are at war with communist/islamic/anti-American/Christian utopian mentally ill portion of the population that is envious and weak. They need to be destroyed and all the institutions that educate, train, support, employ and in any manner agree with them needs to be fearful that the bad man will show up at their door and destroy them.... all of them.
I’m hoping that we participate in the same solution that Hulegu used in 1258 on Baghdad or the Romans used on the Carthaginians in 146 BC....
Speaking of October 2004 :
...Asif William Rahman, 34, had pleaded guilty in January to two counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information after he was arrested for absconding with records from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency last October that indicated Israel was planning to launch airstrikes in response to a massive Iranian missile attack.
Rahman, who had been a CIA employee since 2016 and had access to top secret documents, leaked the stolen information on social media platforms — forcing Israel to delay its attack....
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Note that the prosecutor in that case, as well as the cybercurrency case of Sergey Lavarov, was foundunresponsive/dead earlier this spring after resigning after Trump’s inauguration in January.
How Were Crucial Intelligence Documents Leaked to Iran?
American Thinker ^ | 22 Oct, 2024 | Kenneth R. Timmerman
Posted on 10/22/2024, 7:12:32 AM by MtnClimber
The leak of high-classified U.S. intelligence documents to the Iranian regime last week has triggered a much-needed counter-intelligence investigation to identify the source — either a mole who has betrayed their country, or a cyber-hack.
The documents, which bore Top Secret/NOFORN and compartmented intelligence headers, described U.S. satellite spying on Israeli airfields as the IDF conducted exercises believed to foreshadow a massive airstrike on Iran.
The NOFORN designation means that the document cannot be shared with foreign nationals other than members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing arrangement the United States has crafted with the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia....
It far above the grade needed for a civilian power plant.
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