Iran vs Israel: Confronting The Zionist Regime’s Final Nemesis
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- Jun 22
- 5 min read
The Iran–Israel conflict erupted on June 13, 2025, when Israel launched an unprovoked attack codenamed "Operation Rising Lion" targeting key Iranian military and nuclear facilities.
Tensions, however, date back to 1979... Let me explain.
The Iran-Israel conflict dates back to 1979 following the Iranian Revolution, a turning point that shifted Iran from an ally to a fierce adversary of Israel. Prior to the revolution, under the Pahlavi dynasty, Iran and Israel shared a strong partnership, with Iran recognizing Israel in 1948 as one of the first Muslim-majority nations to do so. Their cooperation spanned trade, oil exports, and security, including joint intelligence operations against mutual threats like Iraq. Iran supplied Israel with vital oil, while Israel provided military and technical support to the Shah’s regime.
The 1979 Islamic Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, radically altered this relationship. Khomeini’s Islamic Republic rejected Israel’s legitimacy, viewing it as an illegitimate state oppressing Palestinians. Iran severed all diplomatic, commercial, and security ties, withdrew recognition of Israel, and began referring to it as “occupied Palestine.” Khomeini’s pre-revolution condemnation of the Shah’s ties with Israel and his vocal support for the Palestinian cause laid the foundation for this ideological hostility.
Iran’s new leadership prioritised support for anti-Zionist movements, backing groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis and Syria's regime ruled by the Assad family, positioning Iran as the key player in regional resistance against Israeli actions. This sparked decades of escalating tensions, marked by proxy wars, covert operations, and mutual hostility.
Having outlined the basic historical background of Iran-Israel tensions, let’s dive into what sparked this current conflict and Israel’s true objectives.
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Following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which sparked the current Gaza war, tensions between Iran and Israel escalated into direct military confrontations, culminating in a full-scale war by June 2025. Iran, shifting from its traditional proxy-based strategy, launched several attacks on Israel in response to Israeli provocations, while Israel systematically dismantled Iran’s regional allies and targeted its nuclear program, leading to a cycle of retaliation that defines the current conflict.
On April 13, 2024, Iran executed “Operation True Promise,” launching over 300 drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles targeting Israeli airbases, including Nevatim, Ramon, and an intelligence center in the occupied Golan Heights. The attack, coordinated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with support from Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iraq’s Islamic Resistance, was a direct response to Israel’s April 1, 2024, bombing of Iran’s embassy compound in Damascus, which targeted IRGC officers.
Iran justified the strike as a legitimate act of self-defense, condemning Israel’s attack on its diplomatic site as a violation of sovereignty. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian emphasized that the operation was limited to military targets, signaling Iran’s intent to avoid broader escalation unless provoked further.
On October 1, 2024, Iran launched “Operation True Promise 2,” firing 180–200 ballistic missiles at Israeli military sites. The IRGC claimed the strikes hit key targets, though most were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome and U.S.-assisted defenses. Iran stated the attack was retaliation for Israel’s assassinations of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, 2024, in Beirut, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh on July 31, 2024, in Tehran, and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr on the same day. Iran denounced these killings as terrorist acts, particularly Haniyeh’s assassination on its soil during President Masoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration, and vowed to punish Israel’s “child-killing regime.” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei framed the strikes as a necessary deterrent against Israel’s aggression.
Israel, meanwhile, pursued a campaign to weaken Iran’s regional influence, targeting its key allies. Between 2023 and 2024, Israel decimated Hezbollah, Iran’s most potent proxy, through a bombing campaign in southern Lebanon and a ground invasion in October 2024. The assassination of Nasrallah, commander Ali Karaki, and IRGC Quds Force deputy Abbas Nilforoushan in September 2024 crippled Hezbollah’s leadership and reduced its rocket arsenal, severely limiting Iran’s deterrence capabilities.
In December 2024, Israel exploited Hezbollah’s absence to facilitate the overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad by rebels, with Israeli airstrikes on Syrian military bases further disrupting Iran’s arms supply lines to its proxies. These actions isolated Iran, leaving it vulnerable to direct attacks.
Israel’s earlier sabotage of Iran’s nuclear program set a precedent for its 2025 assault. In April 2021, Israel was widely attributed with a covert attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, damaging thousands of centrifuges and delaying uranium enrichment. Iran responded by accelerating its nuclear program, enriching uranium to 60% purity, a significant increase from the 3.67% limit agreed upon in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with the United States and other world powers., nearing weapons-grade, and increasing support for proxies like Hamas, which fired rockets at Israel during the May 2021 Gaza conflict. Iran condemned the Natanz attack as “nuclear terrorism,” asserting its right to nuclear development and framing its proxy actions as resistance to Israeli aggression.
The conflict escalated dramatically on June 13, 2025, when Israel launched “Operation Rising Lion,” a massive assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities, including Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan, as well as missile production sites and military infrastructure. Timed precisely on the 61st day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s April 12, 2025, 60-day ultimatum demanding Iran negotiate its nuclear program, the attack killed six key Iranian diplomats and negotiators involved in Oman talks, alongside 20 IRGC commanders and six nuclear scientists. The diplomats included Ali Shamkhani, a senior aide to Khamenei and former IRGC commander advising on nuclear strategy; Mohammad Kazemi, the IRGC’s intelligence chief coordinating nuclear security; Fereydoon Abbasi, a nuclear scientist and former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization; and three senior Foreign Ministry officials specializing in nuclear diplomacy and sanctions relief. The targeted killing of these negotiators derailed diplomatic efforts, prompting Iran to cancel a scheduled sixth round of talks on June 15, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declaring no negotiations possible under Israeli attack.
Iran retaliated on June 13–14, 2025, with “Operation True Promise 3,” / “Operation Severe Punishment,” launching over 400 ballistic missiles and 1,000 drones at Israeli military bases and cities like Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, with further strikes hitting a hospital in Beersheba by June 19. The IRGC stated the attacks targeted military infrastructure, with Khamenei vowing that Israel’s “great crime” would face consequences.
Having discussed the events leading to the current war and the war itself, let’s now explore Israel’s objectives in this conflict.
Israel’s ultimate objective appears to be regime change in Iran, aiming to dismantle the Islamic Republic and replace it with a government more amenable to its regional dominance. A nuclear-armed Iran, or even one on the threshold of nuclear capability, poses an insurmountable barrier to this ambition, as it would deter direct military intervention and embolden Iran’s resistance network.
Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion” on June 13, 2025, targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities—Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow to cripple its enrichment program, killing key scientists and diplomats to ensure Iran’s nuclear ambitions remain out of reach.
However, the deeply buried Fordow facility, designed to withstand conventional airstrikes, proved resilient, highlighting Israel’s critical limitation, its lack of advanced bunker-busting munitions, such as the U.S.’s 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator, capable of penetrating Fordow’s fortifications. To neutralise this site, Israel requires direct U.S. military involvement, either through direct strikes or the provision of specialised weaponry such as the B-2 stealth bomber, as evidenced by its reliance on U.S. intelligence and defense systems like THAAD during Iran’s retaliatory strikes.
Fordow is located 260-300 feet below a mountain.
This dependence underscores Israel’s strategy to entangle the U.S. in a broader conflict, exploiting President Trump’s 60-day ultimatum to provoke Iran while pushing for American intervention to achieve its regime-change agenda, all under the guise of countering a nuclear threat.
