For all the talk of the threat Iran posed to Israel and the wider region, Netanyahu never pulled the trigger on a major military operation. Instead, he authorized sporadic high-risk, high-reward operations from Israel’s Mossad spy agency, including the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists and the stealing of the country’s nuclear archive.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Sunday that he had been notified about the strikes "at least 24 hours before" their execution. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi criticized Washington as a "warmongering and lawless administration" that he holds "solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far-reaching implications of its act of aggression.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the military offensive in Iran was making important progress toward its goals of destroying the country’s nuclear threat and its ballistic missile threat.