Amid ongoing airstrikes: IDF reveals Iran’s secret nuclear project & plans to ‘destroy Israel’

Amid the ongoing Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear sites, military leaders and installations, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed the regime’s covert nuclear weaponization program, as well as concrete plans to destroy the Jewish State in a simultaneous air and ground attack from multiple fronts.

The IDF explained that intelligence accumulated in recent months indicated that the regime’s nuclear program had approached a point of no return, confirming an earlier statement made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“In recent months, Iran has taken steps it has never taken before – steps to weaponize this enriched uranium. If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It could be a year; it could be within a few months—less than a year. This is a clear and present danger to Israel’s very survival,” Netanyahu said.

According to the IDF, “The convergence of the Iranian regime's efforts to produce thousands of kilograms of enriched uranium, alongside decentralized and fortified enrichment compounds in underground facilities, enables the Iranian regime to enrich uranium to military-grade levels, enabling the regime to obtain a nuclear weapon within a short period of time.”

Israel also identified concrete progress on the project to produce components for a nuclear bomb, which had accelerated significantly since the start of the war.

“The IDF is revealing for the first time that the Iranian regime is advancing a secret plan for the technological advancement of all parts of the development of a nuclear weapon. In the framework of this plan, senior nuclear scientists in Iran have been working to secretly develop all components needed for developing a nuclear weapon,” the IDF said.

As part of the opening strikes early on Friday morning, Israel reportedly assassinated more than 10 high-ranking nuclear scientists in Iran.

“The State of Israel has been left with no choice. The IDF has the obligation to act in defense of the civilians of Israel and will continue to do so,” the military said.

The IDF also revealed that its intelligence branch has collected and analyzed “vast quantities of intelligence” pertaining to a “concrete plan to destroy the State of Israel,” which was pursued in parallel to the nuclear program.

“The regime has focused on manufacturing tens of thousands of missiles and drones, and are advancing plans for a combined ground offensive against Israel on multiple fronts simultaneously,” the IDF said.

“Materials collected during the war show the coordination between the Iranian regime and the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, including after the October 7th Massacre, which demonstrates how the regime plans to re-arm the terrorist organizations.”

On Friday morning, the IDF’s head of the Intelligence Directorate, Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder, stated that the country was entering “a campaign that is no less than existential, against an enemy that seeks to destroy us, that seeks to develop nuclear capabilities, and is advancing rapidly in its nuclear development.”

“It also seeks to develop conventional weapons in extremely large quantities. This is the threat we want to degrade, disrupt, and eliminate.”

“The Intelligence Directorate has worked extremely hard to provide the warning on the nuclear advancement and the quantities of ballistic missiles. The Intelligence Directorate is prepared for this mission, is at a very high level of alert, and is, I believe, strongly positioned for the start of the campaign we are now entering,” Binder said.

“For years, the Iranian regime has been waging a direct and indirect campaign of terror against the State of Israel by developing a nuclear weapon, developing advanced long-range missiles and warheads, and funding and directing terror proxies across the Middle East,” the IDF stressed.

“The goal of destroying the State of Israel is rooted in the founding principles of the extremist regime, and leaders of the regime have openly proclaimed this.”