Trump said that the US Army hit three locations in Iran on Saturday, which marked the first American involvement in direct attacks on Iranian nuclear assets in his conflict with Israel | Photocredit: Carlos Barria
Israelis woke up with a new reality on Sunday after President Donald Trump had confirmed that the US bombarded the three most important nuclear sites of Iran, which is decreasing a threat that they have considered as existential for decades.
The American attack was embraced about the Israeli political spectrum, praised for hastily collected TV panels as a historical symbol of unprecedented US-Israeli cooperation at a time when the Jewish state was avoided by others for his war in Gaza.
But commentators and civil servants quickly recognized that what comes next is far from clear, including the potential reactions of Iran. They expressed their concern that Iran American bases in the region or its own nuclear research center of Israel could attack Dimona in the vicinity of the Woestijnstad, or escalate his own nuclear program.
Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency described American strikes as a “wild attack,” but promised not to leave its nuclear industry. The agency did not confirm whether the sites of Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan had been ‘completely and completely erased’, as Trump said they were in a speech. The Iranian legislator Mannan Raisi was cited by the semi-official Tasnim press agency that said that any material at Fordow that could be a potential risk for the public “had already been removed.”
The Israeli home command brought the country back to a state of emergency and told citizens to stay close to bomb shelters and safe rooms; surprise of meetings; And keeping schools, workplaces and the airport closed. It had facilitated some of those restrictions in recent days.
Yet a sense of victory could be felt. The American strike is something that Israelis have been looking for years and it gives them the feeling of being among us. It is also a personal victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose political fortunes have fallen since the October 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas that caused the Gaza war.
Netanyahu, 75, took a victory round on Sunday and said in a television on television: “I promised you that – somehow – the Iranian nuclear facilities would be destroyed. That promise has been realized.”
After the Hamas attack, many predicted that the career of Netanyahu was over, that he would be forced to resign. But those who were close to him said that as his model he took the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt who passed the Japan attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Instead of having himself defined by that failure, he changed a historical victory.
Israel has been busy with a series of successful military actions in the past year. The American attack came just a few days after Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran on 13 June, nuclear locations became, killed the best military commanders and nuclear scientists and eliminated part of the Iran’s Raketarsenal and launchers.
While Israelis woke up and absorbed the news, some people investigated the possibilities that lie in front of us.
“This is the start of a larger war or the end of the current war,” said Yoel Esteron, publisher of the Business Daily Calcalist, speaking by telephone from a safe room. “The big question for me is whether Israel will take this opportunity to create a new regional coordination to end the war in Gaza, bring back the hostages and reconcile with those Palestinians who want to live next to Israel.”
Whether the American bombing will lead to such diplomatic performance, there can be little doubt that the military balance of the Midden -East has been dramatically changed in the past year, because Israel systematically reduced Iran’s proxy milities in the region.
Israel paralyzed Hezbollah by Lebanon last year and benefited from the collapse of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. It has largely destroyed Hamas’s ability to form a serious threat. And now, between it and what the US has just done, Iran is considerably weaker.
However, weakness does not necessarily lead to surrender, and there is little clear what happens next. The Israeli defense troops said early on Sunday that it had identified the rockets that had been launched from Iran to the nation and sent Israelis back in their hiding places with the tree of interception completely audible in Tel Aviv.
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Published on June 22, 2025
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