How Israel Wiped Out Iran’s Top Military Command, Nuclear Weapons Program
Prime Minister Netanyahu: “We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear weaponization program.”
With dust settling down on the massive Israeli early morning airstrikes on Iran, details emerge how the Israeli Air Force wiped out almost the entire top Iranian military command, eliminating around 20 highest-ranking generals and commanders.
The list of top military brass taken out in the strike include the head of Iranian armed forces, chief of Islamic Guard (IRGC) and head of the regime’s Emergency Command. “Iran said several top commanders and six nuclear scientists were killed in Israeli strikes on Friday targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders to prevent Tehran from developing an atomic weapon,” Reuters reported.
“At least 20 senior Iranian commanders, including the head of the revolutionary guards, Aerospace Force Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, were killed in Israel’s strikes on Iran on Friday,” the news agency reported citing regional sources.
During his press conference, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin reveals that the military has killed at least six top Iranian military commanders and nine nuclear scientists.
The military officials include Iran's chief of staff, Mohammad Bagheri; IRGC chief Hossein Salami;… pic.twitter.com/WzsWJC3d7L
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) June 13, 2025
Israel wiped out Iran's military leadership: Every general seen in this photo with Khamenei is now dead 👇 https://t.co/eIl4uSijMn
— Israel Radar (@IsraelRadar_com) June 13, 2025
Iran’s Air Force command decapitated in a single strike
Iran’s senior-most Air Force generals, including the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Forces, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, were reportedly killed in a brilliantly planned single strike. The IDF got them the entire Iranian Air Force command to assemble at one place “by tricking them into gathering at the underground facility that was subsequently targeted in a precision strike,” Israeli news website YNET reported.
“According to the military, IDF intelligence identified that the IRGC air force leadership was meeting in an underground bunker to coordinate a potential strike against Israel. The site was then hit by Israeli fighter jets,” the news website.
Netanyahu: “We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear weaponization program”
Besides decapitating Iran’s military leadership, Israel dealt a devastating blow regime’s nuclear weapons program and eliminated its top nuclear weapons scientists, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in televised address Friday morning.
“We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz,” he said. “We targeted Iran’s leading nuclear scientist working on the Iranian bomb.”
Moments ago, Israel launched Operation “Rising Lion”, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival.
This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.
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Statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: pic.twitter.com/XgUTy90g1S
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) June 13, 2025
This is the single biggest blow to the Islamic regime in its 46-year rule. The Associated Press described the strike as “the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq.”
Satellite imagery from Open Source Center shows damage to the Kermanshah missile base following Israeli airstrikes. pic.twitter.com/YUIHxcqoqo
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) June 13, 2025
Iran’s main Natanz nuclear weapons facility struck, IDF confirms
Israel struck regime’s main nuclear weapons facility in Natanz, central Iran. “Fireballs and plumes of smoke could be seen coming from the facility after Israeli strikes hit more than 100 targets in Iran. Natanz is one of Iran’s key sites for uranium enrichment,” the UK newspaper Guardian reported citing Iranian state-run media.
No radiation was detected following the Israeli strike. “The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that the enrichment plant had been hit and added later that the Iranian authorities had not detected any increased radiation levels at the site,” the Uk daily added.
We can now confirm, IDF has carried out strikes against the nuclear plant in Isfahan ❗️
This is in addition to operations in Natanz.— LTC Nadav Shoshani (@LTC_Shoshani) June 13, 2025
The IDF officially confirmed hitting the Natanz nuke site, the Israeli news website Arutz Sheva reported:
IDF Spokesperson Effie Defrin confirmed on Friday evening that Israel struck the nuclear facility in Isfahan, Iran, as part of Operation Rising Lion.
His statement followed reports of explosions in Isfahan earlier in the day.
“It can now be revealed that we struck the nuclear facility in Isfahan earlier today, in addition to the attack in Natanz,” Defrin said during a press briefing.
The IDF later said in a statement, “A short while ago, IAF fighter jets completed a strike on the Iranian regime’s nuclear site in the Isfahan area, guided by precise intelligence from the Intelligence Directorate. At the site, a process of ‘reconversion’ of enriched uranium takes place. This is the stage after uranium enrichment in the nuclear weapons production process.”
According to the IDF, the strike dismantled a facility for producing metallic uranium, infrastructure for reconverting enriched uranium, laboratories, and additional infrastructure.
⭕️ IAF fighter jets, guided by precise intelligence, struck the Iranian regime's uranium enrichment site in the Natanz area overnight. This is the largest uranium enrichment site in Iran, which has operated for years to achieve nuclear weapons capability and houses the… pic.twitter.com/JVLIZFHwLm
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 13, 2025
Iran’s missile program struck
According to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel “also struck at the heart of Iran’s ballistic missile program.”
The Israel military confirmed hitting Iranian’s surface-to-surface missile arsenal. “In the last few hours, Israeli Air Force fighter jets, guided by precise intelligence from the Intelligence Directorate, completed a series of strikes against the Iranian regime’s surface-to-surface missile array,” the IDF said in a statement Friday afternoon.
“As part of the strikes, dozens of launchers, surface-to-surface missile storage facilities, and additional military sites were destroyed. At one of the sites struck in western Iran, a unique launch mechanism was embedded within shipping containers,” the statement added.
Despite today’s stunning success, air operations against the Iranian nuclear program and military capabilities were continuing in full swing. “We are continuing with full force and at a high pace in order to meet the goals we have set for ourselves,” the chief of IDF’s general staff, Lt. General Eyal Zamir, assured in a statement Friday afternoon.
Israel gears up for Iranian retaliation
Anticipating an Iranian retaliation, the military called upon people to stay close to bomb shelters and avoid public places. “The Home Front Command has now instructed residents across the country to remain close to protected spaces. Movement in public areas should be minimized, and public gatherings must be avoided,” the IDF announced Friday evening. “Upon receiving an alert, enter a protected space and remain there until an official update is issued.”
Iran reportedly launched over 100 drones following the initial Israeli strike earlier this morning. Israeli air defense systems intercepted several of those drones as they approached the country’s airspace.
🚨All of Israel is under fire as Iran fires projectiles🚨 pic.twitter.com/eqEGzQMiCc
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 13, 2025
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The remaining two boxes on that org chart…
I’m betting on two more red slashes within the next 72 hours.
IDF intel is like Hebrew National, it comes from a higher authority.
The laws of war are morphing with technology. The overall planning must go back ages. It shows. Little doubt that there are many Iranians that help. For them it is well founded resistance, not like dangerous performance spurred by rage for its own sake so prevalent here.
What in the hell is wrong with Tucker Carlson? Is he anti-Israel, or has he lost his mind?
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1933620743406801038
Read the X post again. He’s saying we should avoid actively joining the fight as offensive combatants at this time. As for supporting Israel in every way we can, I say yes, help them however possible, but let the Israelis have the attention as they bomb Iran. Assist with Patriot, THAAD and other air defense operations, help them with weapons and technical support, ship them fuel for their aircraft, but don’t give the insane mullahs any more excuse than necessary to go after our forces than they can already dream up.
However, …
When they start targeting our military, we are now involved and the gloves come off. Our aircrews need target practice, starting with the petroleum pipeline supplying oil to China which would deny fuel to the CCP and revenue to Iran. Wouldn’t it be fun to watch a B-2 drop a MOAB on the Iranians’ deepest munitions plants? We can tell them that, no matter how deep they dig, we’ll find them. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Are any of their military bases being educated about MOAB’s yet?
Both
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Wm. Empson says that in “Richard is a lion” you’re supposed to think of the heart of a lion and not the lion’s tail. A typifying pregnancy in the metaphor’s vehicle.
It might however be a Hollywood lion, brought in for a scene where, sadly, the lion is run over by a truck, as Vicki Hearne suggests. A noble beast made pathetic. “The lion must hold a sit-stay in the road while a semi bears down on him, as fast and as close as negotiations and arguments between the lion tamer and the director and producer will allow. So the lion trainer is riding on the front bumper of the truck, the camera cunningly placed so as to show lion and truck but not lion tamer. The trainer is saying, “Stay, Sudan, Stay!” The truck bears down, then screeches to a halt. Too far away and at too slow a pace to please the director, who wants a retake. The lion tamer is of course an agile person who enjoys demands on his ingenuity, but there are risks and risks, and a lion, as I was saying, is noble, therefore the tamer wants to get this scene safely shot before the lion’s nobility is awakened in the form of distrust of the tamer’s judgment.”
– Animal Happiness
There are lions and lions.
“Many brain cells died to bring us this information.”
Are you drunk-posting again?
Israel has a problem if Iran is able to hit Israel’s equivalent of the Pentagon with a ballistic missle, as has been reported. A standard tactic of blowing up Kharg Island – primary oil export terminal – would not be that hard, but have worldwide repercussions and hurt the Iranian people, who IMO are not our enimies. Killing the mullahs could work, but may not be possible.
At the risk of this being spamming Iran is an extremely disarmed country which makes Iranians taking to the street to try and remove their oppressors not only brave but something extraordinary.
Everyone pray for the unarmed heroes of Iran to win this time.
I was talking with the better half yesterday marveling at the Israeli intelligence. They not only knew where everything was. They knew where everyone was and when/where everyone would gather to plan a counter attack then blew that up too.
It’s an entirely expected tactic. Terrorists often plant second bombs delayed to target first responders or evacuation locations.
no doubt these folks had personal security and met/worked in fortified facilities and yet they got touched
are soros and family paying attention?
There is a lot of accumulated bad karma associated with Soros.
Aslan showed up….