With Iran rapidly building up its ballistic missile program, Israel has drawn up a plan for a possible strike to counter the threat of Tehran’s long-range strike capabilities, NBC News reported on Saturday.
“Israeli officials believe Iran is expanding its ballistic missile program,” the broadcaster disclosed. “They are preparing to make the case during an upcoming meeting with Trump that it poses a new threat.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is expected to visit the White House next week, will brief the president on the prospect of a possible strike against the Iranian ballistic missile program. According to the newspaper Israel Hayom, Prime Minister “Netanyahu is expected to lay out the threats Israel faces and the possible courses of action, including with regard to Iran (…).”
During the Twelve-Day War in June 2025, Israel struck Iran’s long-range missile storage and manufacturing facilities, as well as the regime’s top military-terrorist leadership and the rogue nuclear weapons program.
Getting President Trump on board will be crucial for a major Israeli military action against the Iranian regime. The U.S. Military, particularly the B-2 stealth bombers, played a decisive role in dismantling Iran’s fortified and deep-underground nuclear weapons sites. President Trump authorized the use of U.S. fighter jets in the final phase of the war, naming it “Operation Midnight Hammer.”
The Israeli government did not comment on a possible plan of attack against Iran’s growing long-range missile infrastructure.
NBC News reports exclusively:
Israeli officials have grown increasingly concerned that Iran is expanding production of its ballistic missile program, which was damaged by Israeli military strikes earlier this year, and are preparing to brief President Donald Trump about options for attacking it again, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plans and four former U.S. officials briefed on the plans.Israeli officials also are concerned that Iran is reconstituting nuclear enrichment sites the U.S. bombed in June, the sources said. But, they added, the officials view Iran’s efforts to rebuild facilities where they produce the ballistic missiles and to repair its crippled air defense systems as more immediate concerns.Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to meet later this month in Florida at the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate. At that meeting, the sources said, Netanyahu is expected to make the case to Trump that Iran’s expansion of its ballistic missile program poses a threat that could necessitate swift action.They said part of his argument is expected to be that Iran’s actions present perils not only to Israel but also to the broader region, including U.S. interests. The Israeli leader is expected to present Trump with options for the U.S. to join or assist in any new military operations, the sources said.Asked Thursday about a Dec. 29 meeting with Netanyahu, Trump told reporters, “We haven’t set it up formally, but he’d like to see me.” Israeli officials have announced a Dec. 29 meeting.The Israeli government declined to comment.
Recent media reports have suggested that Iran has been rapidly restoring its crippeled nuclear and ballistic capabilities. On November 11, 2025, Legal Insurrection reported that “the Mullah regime” was “trying to restore its nuclear facilities and replenish its missile arsenal.”
Citing a New York Times article, we wrote:
Following the 12-Day War (…), “Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, enough to make 11 nuclear weapons, is either buried under rubble, as Iran claims, or has been spirited away to a safe place, as Israeli officials believe,” the NYT reported.According to the report, Iranian officials claimed that their missile factories were up and running again — “working 24 hours a day.” The Mullahs “hope to fire 2,000 at once to overwhelm Israeli defenses, not 500 over 12 days” as they did five months ago, one regime official boasted.
Israel cannot be expected to sit idly by as Iran builds up a ballistic missile arsenal that can reach its territory and even overwhelm its air defense systems. The Times of Israel noted recently that during the 12-Day War, “In all, Israel suffered 36 missile impacts and one drone strike in populated areas, causing damage to 2,305 homes in 240 buildings, along with two universities and a hospital, and leaving over 13,000 Israelis displaced.”
Iran-backed Yemen’s Houthis have also fired ballistic missiles at Israel since the October 7 massacre, one of them hitting the country’s main Ben Gurion Airport in early May 2025.
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