Israel said it had no choice but to attack Iran, adding that it gathered intelligence that Tehran was approaching “the point of no return” in its pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
“The Iranian regime has been working for decades to obtain a nuclear weapon. The world has attempted every possible diplomatic path to stop it, but the regime has refused to stop,” the Israeli military said in a statement.
The military did not disclose the purported evidence that it had recently accumulated.
(Reporting by Hatem Maher and Alexander Cornwell; Editing by Himani Sarkar)