00:00June 13, 2025, before sunrise, Israeli fighter jets pierced Iranian airspace in a coordinated
00:10assault code named Operation Rising Lion, targeting nuclear facilities, missile factories,
00:15and military command centers. The strikes marked Israel's most aggressive action against Iran in
00:21decades. Explosions rocked Tehran, Isfahan, Natanz, and Tabriz, with plumes of smoke engulfing
00:28residential neighborhoods and sensitive military sites. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared
00:34this a decisive moment to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat, vowing operations would continue for as
00:39many days as necessary. The attacks delivered a decapitating blow to Iran's military leadership,
00:45among the dead, General Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards,
00:50who days earlier threatened to open the gates of hell if attacked, Major General Mohammed
00:54Boghari, Iran's highest-ranking military officer, six nuclear scientists, including Feredo Nabassi,
01:02former head of Iran's atomic energy organization. Israeli intelligence agencies also executed
01:07covert sabotage missions, crippling Iran's command structure. Central to Israel's operation was
01:14disabling Iran's nuclear capabilities, the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, a cornerstone of
01:20Iran's nuclear program, suffered significant damage, while the UN's atomic watchdog confirmed
01:26no radiation leaks, satellite imagery showed black smoke billowing from the site, an Israeli security
01:32source revealed Iran could now build 15 nuclear bombs within days, a threat Netanyahu called
01:39existential. Within hours, Iran retaliated, over 100 drones streaked toward Israeli territory,
01:46prompting nationwide airspace closures and emergency protocols. Schools shuttered, hospitals moved
01:53patients to bunkers, and tens of thousands of Israeli reservists mobilized 569. Supreme Leader
02:01Ayatollah Khomeini warned Israel faced a bitter and painful fate, while IRGC commanders vowed to exact a
02:07heavy price. World leaders scrambled to contain the crisis. The U.S. emphatically denied involvement,
02:14with Secretary of State Marco Rubio stressing, our priority is protecting American forces. 28,
02:21UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged restraint, escalation serves no one. Now is the time for
02:27calm 311, Oman, mediating U.S., Iran nuclear talks, condemned Israel's reckless violation of
02:36international law. 89, the UN warned attacking nuclear facilities risked radioactive catastrophe.
02:42Timing was critical, Israel struck days before planned U.S., Iran nuclear negotiations and after
02:49the IAEA declared Iran in breach of non-proliferation commitments 58, with Iran stockpiling 408 kilograms
02:56of 60% enriched uranium, enough for nine bombs, Netanyahu gambled on a preemptive blow, yet experts
03:04warned the attack had collapsed diplomacy and ignite regional war. In Tehran, civilians awoke to
03:11devastation, apartment blocks lay in ruins, cars buried under debris, first responders scoured rubble
03:17for survivors as residents grappled with trauma. Political analyst Nagar Mortazavi described a populace
03:23devastated and shocked, caught between regime rhetoric and relentless violence. As both nations brace for
03:30escalation, the Middle East teeters on the brink, Israel's point-of-no-return operation has shattered
03:35decades of shadow warfare. For Iran's leaders, revenge is now ideological imperative. For global
03:42powers, preventing all-out conflict is the only imperative. This is not just a battle over bombs,
03:48but survival itself, but survival itself.
