Key Points
It is clear that Israel is going to strike Iran hard, and many think it could be targeted assassinations as well as air strikes..
Naftali Bennett, a former Israeli prime minister, has urged Israel to attack destroy [Irans] nuclear project, destroy their major energy facilities and critically hit this terrorist regime...
The United States said at the time that a main aim was to increase the time Iran would need to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb - the biggest single hurdle in a weapons programme - to at least a year...
Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands, a confidential report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog said nearly a month ago...
The US and UK are increasingly concerned that Russia is sharing with Iran secret information and technology that could bring it closer to being able to build nuclear weapons, in exchange for Tehran providing Moscow with ballistic missiles for its war in Ukraine..
