Israel and Iran have opened a new chapter in their long history of conflict. Israel launched a major attack with strikes early Friday that set off explosions in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Israel attacked Iran’s Natanz nuclear site after it announced that it is activating a third nuclear enrichment facility. IAEA confirmed that the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, Isfahan nuclear site and Bushehr nuclear plant,

Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.

Israel's strike has caused severe destruction to the underground facility at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site. Reports suggest that several advanced centrifuge machines were destroyed in the attack.

US President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza and stop talk of an attack on Iran, according to a source familiar with the conversation.

"If Israel is to be taken at its word that tonight's strikes were the first round in an all-out Israeli campaign against Iran's nuclear and missile programs, Iran's regime is now