{"id":170964,"date":"2025-06-26T06:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=170964"},"modified":"2025-06-26T06:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:24:24","slug":"idf-chief-on-israeli-commandos-irans-nuke-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170964","title":{"rendered":"IDF Chief on Israeli Commandos, Iran&#8217;s Nuke Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170965 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b2-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b2-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b2.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>When you care enough to send the very best<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>IDF Chief Reveals Israeli Commandos Operated Deep Inside Iran; Experts Say Nuclear Program \u2018Systematically Destroyed\u2019<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Joshua Klein<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel\u2019s top military official disclosed that elite Israeli commandos operated covertly inside Iran during Operation Rising Lion, as part of what intelligence and nuclear experts now assess was a campaign that inflicted systemic, not just tactical, destruction on the Islamic Republic\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, said in a televised address Wednesday, \u201cAfter 12 days of unprecedented fighting, I can say that the IDF operated at its best and fully achieved the aims and objectives of the operation.\u201d He emphasized that the mission had one clear goal from the start: \u201cto remove the existential threat to the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Iran\u2019s nuclear program, the IDF chief cited assessments from top military intelligence and nuclear experts, declaring: \u201cThe damage to the nuclear program is not a localized blow, but a systemic one.\u201d <strong>According to Zamir, Israeli forces \u201chit the main facilities, factories and satellite industries, and knowledge centers.\u201d He said the accumulated results \u201cpushed [Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities] back by years,\u201d<\/strong> and added firmly, \u201cWe will not allow Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/25\/idf-chief-reveals-israeli-commandos-operated-deep-inside-iran-experts-say-nuclear-program-systematically-destroyed\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His assessment does not include the coup de gras delivered by the US military. Meanwhile at CNN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US military strikes on three of Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country\u2019s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by seven people briefed on it.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon\u2019s intelligence arm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/24\/politics\/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CNN has beclowned itself once again, and the DIA is working with the FBI and other authorities to investigate the source of the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you care enough to send the very best IDF Chief Reveals Israeli Commandos Operated Deep &hellip; <a title=\"IDF Chief on Israeli Commandos, Iran&#8217;s Nuke Program\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170964\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IDF Chief on Israeli Commandos, Iran&#8217;s Nuke Program<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":170965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,308,466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-affairs","category-iran","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}