According to a report by The Jerusalem Post, on Saturday April 11, 2026, In a high-stakes address today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Israel’s clandestine military and intelligence efforts are the only reason Iran has not yet crossed the nuclear threshold.
The Prime Minister specifically credited two major strategic initiatives Operation Rising Lion and Operation Roaring Lion with dismantling Tehran’s nuclear ambitions at critical junctions.
Netanyahu revealed that recent strikes were the result of unprecedented access to Iranian secrets. He emphasized that the most recent wave of operations was launched just as the Islamic Republic was on the verge of a breakthrough.
“If not for Operations Rising Lion and Roaring Lion, Iran would already have had nuclear bombs; we prevented that,” Netanyahu stated during the briefing.
He went on to detail the surgical nature of the most recent campaign, which targeted both the physical infrastructure and the human capital driving Iran’s atomic program.
According to the Prime Minister, the intelligence community provided a “precise” window of opportunity that allowed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and intelligence agencies to strike with lethal accuracy.
“Before Operation Rising Lion, this time, precise real-time intelligence reached me; we eliminated 12 nuclear scientists and struck the nuclear facilities,” Netanyahu added. Read_More…