Israel likely launched its attack on Iran after learning the Islamic Republic was close to building a nuke

Israel launched its missile barrage on Iran this week because the theocratic regime was on the brink of building a crude nuclear device, experts said.Iran was pulling together materials “in a secret place near Tehran to make a primitive warhead,” Beni Sabti of the Institute of National Security Studies told Fox News Digital, the likely impetus for Israel’s launch of “Operation Rising Lion” — a plan that has been ready to go since April.Tehran also recently announced that it had built and would activate a third nuclear enrichment facility — prompting the UN’s atomic watchdog agency to censure Iran.Experts further claim that Iran has recently continued a concerning level of weapons production.“Iran reactivated an explosives manufacturing line, which could only be used to help that needed nuclear weapon… efforts to put the fissile material into a shape which could be used for a nuclear weapon — that was reactivated as well,” Gregg Roman, executive director of the Middle East Forum, told Fox.Just hours before Israel’s historic strike Thursday, Iran announced the creation of a new enrichment facility, and the beefing up of existing enrichment operations, in a defiant response to a UN watchdog’s report that censured the nation for shirking nonproliferation agreements.“The President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has issued necessary directives for launching a new enrichment facility in a secure location,” the statement issued jointly by Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and AEO on Thursday read.“And replacing first-generation centrifuges at the Martyr Ali Mohammadi (Fordo) enrichment center with advanced sixth-generation machines.”Later that same day, Israel launched its onslaught — striking key nuclear infrastructure sites across Iran, including in Tehran, in an attack that targeted the “heart” of Iran’s weaponization program, according to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Netanyahu revealed that Isra...