Operation Rising Lion started on June 13 with Israeli Air Forces attacking military targets aimed at destroying Iran’s emerging nuclear weapons program. Of course, the terrorist regime in Iran eventually started firing waves of missiles at Israeli residential targets after the initial shock of the first attack’s was over. However, it appears so far that the Israeli attacks are being very effective, so much so that their Air Forces can range the battlefield almost entirely unopposed, reducing Iran’s responses over time to fewer and fewer missiles n each salvo. I say so far because war is an unpredictable activity and those who say they can confirm this or that target is utterly destroyed etc are on a fools errand until adequate bomb damage assessment is completed, and much of that has to be done at the targets on the ground to be so accurate. So here we are. Amid calls for the United States to enter this war, all nuclear facilities appear to have been attacked at this point, but it will take much more than one or two attacks to destroy them, especially the hardened and deeply buried main facility at Fordow. A larger question looming is, is the regime so weak that the Iranian people rise up and remove them? I believe they have a small window of opportunity. My guest today to discuss all this is Veteran TV News Producer, Host of The Analyst Substack, Former Diplomat, and brand-new Host of Real America’s Voices American Sunrise Early Edition Jake Novak!
Israel Defends Its Vital Interest – No Nuclear Armed Iran | The Rob Maness Show EP 538
Jun 16, 2025

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