Israeli Air Strikes and Iranian Missile Barrages Are Far From Over  – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

The decades-long showdown, muscle flexing, and verbal sparring between Iran and Israel reached a new milestone in the early morning hours of Friday, June 13, as Israel carried out massive attacks on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure and repelled retaliatory missile and drone barrages from Iran over Israeli civilian centers.
Trump praised Operation Rising Lion in an ABC News interview on Friday. “We gave them [Iran] a chance, and they didn’t take it. They got hit hard, very hard.
Sirens went off across Israel around 3 AM on Friday as the population scrambled out of bed for the nearest bomb shelter, anticipating the all-too-familiar sound of rocket interceptions overhead. But no interceptions came, and the early morning hours remained uncannily quiet.
When sirens stopped, a series of cell phone notifications alerted the population that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) had initiated Operation Rising Lion to cripple Iran’s nuclear capabilities and that Israel was now under a new state of emergency for Iranian retaliation.
Operation Rising Lion
The opening salvos of Rising Lion involved over 200 IAF jets easily traversing Syrian and Iraqi airspace to drop more than 330 munitions on key Iranian targets. The operation unfolded in five successive waves throughout Friday morning and afternoon, causing devastating damage to Iran’s uranium enrichment and nuclear facilities, destroying ballistic missile depots, launch sites, military and defense infrastructure, and executing targeted strikes on top Iranian military and nuclear officials. Reports confirmed 78 dead with more than 300 wounded.
The Natanz uranium enrichment facility, Iran’s largest underground nuclear site with the infrastructure to enrich military-grade uranium, was attacked multiple times while the country’s other two enrichment centers at Fordo and near Isfahan were not hit.
The attack had been years in planning, evident by Mossad operations to smuggle weapons systems, drones, and commandos inside Iran that …